This literary festival focuses on one of our era’s most exciting genres: crime. Now firmly part of London’s literary calendar, each year it hosts a top-notch line-up of crime and thriller authors in a rich programme of talks, panels and interviews. Over 80 authors and specialists will explore themes such as ‘unlikeable characters’, how to bring crimes to the silver screen and Agatha Christie for the Knives Out generation.
Notable names appearing this year include Michael Connelly, Steph McGovern, Jeremy Vine, Vaseem Khan, Linwood Barclay, Karin Slaughter, Richard Armitage, Dorothy Koomson and Ruth Ware. The festival runs throughout the weekend, but if you're only keen to see one of the acts, you can grab tickets for individual talks for £20.