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Harrogate 2025: Old hands and new faces

By DeathBecomesHer
20 July, 2025
You might think that an event chaired by the creator of Slow Horses could prove a tad unpredictable, and you’d be right. Mick Herron, at the helm of the 2025 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, brought an element of surprise to four days of…
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Harrogate 2024 Report: Crime fiction is HOT this summer

By DeathBecomesHer
21 July, 2024
Sub-tropical temperatures brought fans of both kinds out in force at this year’s record-breaking Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival 2024 in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, which ran from Thursday 18 July to Sunday 21 July. On Friday morning and early afternoon, savvy publishers were handing…
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Harrogate 2022 – the crime fiction festival has its biggest ever year

By DeathBecomesHer
25 July, 2022
Heading to the final day of the Theakston Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate, I met a man walking with his young son, wobbling along on a trike. “What’s going on at the Old Swan?” he asked. “If I told you, I might have to kill…
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Harrogate 2021 – crime goes under cover in a tent

By Catherine Turnbull
26 July, 2021
“It’s been a stressful two years since I became programming chair for the 2020 festival that never happened, apart from a few online panels, but now I am so happy that we are all back together like the big family that we are. It appears…
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Harrogate crime fiction festival to return this summer

By DeathBecomesHer
26 February, 2021
Finally, a date for those empty diaries! It’s been announced that Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival will return to the Swan Hotel in Harrogate from 22-25 July. After COVID-19 led to cancellation in 2020, it seems that the return to a live festival has…
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Are you ready for virtual Harrogate?

By Catherine Turnbull
3 July, 2020
Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival may not be happening in Harrogate this year at the Old Swan Hotel, but a free, virtual festival will be streamed by Harrogate International Festivals over the long weekend of 23 to 26 July. The HIF Weekender begins with a bang,…
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Cancelled crime fiction festivals go online

By Catherine Turnbull
30 April, 2020
With much of the world on lockdown due to Covid-19, many crime fiction festivals have cancelled this year’s events. Instead, some are offering crime fiction lovers the opportunity to join virtual festivals online and interact with authors at live events and book launches, or watch…
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Harrogate 2019 – from the scene of the crime...

By Catherine Turnbull
22 July, 2019
Catherine Turnbull reports on the 2019 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate Who’d have thought it? Turns out Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon could have had a career as a comedian if her interview with Val McDermid is anything to go by. The…
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