Room 101 with Sophie Hannah
Following Lee Child’s sell-out Room 101 event with host Christina Patterson at this year’s Festival (click here to listen to live clips from the event), ‘You’re Booked’ wanted to carry on the game with...
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We ask authors to give us their very own list of crime writing pet peeves and we want you to decide if each one should make it into Room 101! Our second offering comes from the modern day queen of...
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We ask authors to give us their very own list of crime writing pet peeves and we want you to decide if each one should make it into Room 101! Our next set of pet hates up for debate comes from Mark...
View ArticleRoom 101 with David Mark
We ask authors to give us their very own list of crime writing pet peeves and we want you to decide if each one should make it into Room 101! Our latest feature comes rom David Mark, who appeared in...
View ArticleRoom 101 with Julia Crouch
Until I started writing myself, I would read widely, indiscriminately and unidiscriminatingly. I had no critical faculties whatsoever and I always thought that if I wasn’t enjoying myself as a reader,...
View ArticleRoom 101 with David Quantick
This month we have asked writer, broadcaster and 2012 Crime Festival Panel chair David Quantick what drives him mad in crime fiction and what he wants to see consigned to Room 101. 1. Unlikelihood...
View ArticleRoom 101 with Peter Bradshaw
Three things I wish to consign to Room 101. 1. Short chapters Since I became a serious reader of grownup books, at the age of 11 — in the era when there was no “young adult” fiction, just children’s...
View ArticleRoom 101 with Steven Dunne
The author of Reeper and Deity tells us what sets his teeth on edge in Crime Ficiton. 1. Gratuitous Violence and Torture The nature of crime writing means that we deal with some of the baser instincts...
View ArticleRoom 101 by Elly Griffiths
I don’t know if I hate them enough to put them in Room 101 but Room 102 certainly…. Eating This is really for television and (especially) radio drama but excessive eating is irritating in books too....
View ArticleRoom 101 with Kate Rhodes
Kate Rhodes,writer of recently published The Winter Foundlings tells You’re Booked her three Crime Writing pet hates! 1 Death by fire This one’s a very personal pet hate. I think all...
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