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Welcome to our #TheakstonAward podcast 'lights', a series of interviews with the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year longlisted authors.

The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year is the most wanted award in crime fiction, curated and produced by Harrogate International Festivals, in partnership with Theakston Old Peculier, The Express and WHSmith.

To find out more about each of the 18 books on the longlist, to buy your copy, or to vote for your favourite to make the shortlist, please visit www.harrogatetheakstoncrimeaward.com

Welcome to our #TheakstonAward podcast 'lights', a series of interviews with the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year longlisted authors.

The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year is the most wanted award in crime fiction, curated and produced by Harrogate International Festivals, in partnership with Theakston Old Peculier, The Express and WHSmith.

To find out more about each of the 18 books on the longlist, to buy your copy, or to vote for your favourite to make the shortlist, please visit www.harrogatetheakstoncrimeaward.com

Welcome to our #TheakstonAward podcast 'lights', a series of interviews with the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year longlisted authors.

The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year is the most wanted award in crime fiction, curated and produced by Harrogate International Festivals, in partnership with Theakston Old Peculier, The Express and WHSmith.

To find out more about each of the 18 books on the longlist, to buy your copy, or to vote for your favourite to make the shortlist, please visit www.harrogatetheakstoncrimeaward.com

Welcome to our #TheakstonAward podcast 'lights', a series of interviews with the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year longlisted authors.

The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year is the most wanted award in crime fiction, curated and produced by Harrogate International Festivals, in partnership with Theakston Old Peculier, The Express and WHSmith.

To find out more about each of the 18 books on the longlist, to buy your copy, or to vote for your favourite to make the shortlist, please visit www.harrogatetheakstoncrimeaward.com

Celebrating his newest book - the 27th Alan Banks novel, 'Not Dark Yet' - on this week's episode, the number one bestselling crime writer Peter Robinson, beams in from Canada to join our guest host: interviewer and journalist York Membery.

Head over to the podcast section of our website to buy your copy of 'Not Dark Yet.'

This interview was first live streamed on our website to celebrate the launch of 'Not Dark Yet' and is kindly supported by Hodder and Stoughton.

Podcast Music: Joseph McDade

On this week's bumper podcast episode, hosted by Jake Kerridge, we’re thrilled to bring you interviews with the fantastic authors: Mel McGrath, and Nadine Matheson.

Head over to the podcast page on Harrogate International Festivals website now, to download a free sample chapter of both Nadine Matheson's: The Jigsaw Man, and Mel McGrath's: Two Wrongs.

Mel McGrath is an Essex girl, the author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling family memoir Silvertown. She is one of the founders of the website Killer Women, which has rapidly established itself as one of the key forums for crime writing in the UK. She joins us on the podcast to talk about her new book: Two Wrongs.

Nadine Matheson was born and raised in Deptford (one of the murders in The Jigsaw Man takes place five minutes from her front door) and is a criminal solicitor. The Jigsaw Man is her debut novel.

Podcast music by Joseph McDade.

This spring Viper Books are publishing a trio of incredible, very different books: Call Me Mummy by Tina Baker, The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward, and The Plague Letters by V.L. Valentine.

In this Spring Showcase, publisher Miranda Jewess interviews all three authors and asks her burning questions about their books and the writing process.

Viper Books publishes books with bite: everything from crime and thrillers to mysterious gothic fiction. From renowned established authors to exciting new voices, we strive to publish the best and brightest in the genre.

Want to take back the future? But how can we think about the future right now? What do we need to do – and who do we need to be?

For all the big questions in our lives we like to look towards Margaret Heffernan for answers. Do not miss the chance to see the award-winning business psychologist (her TED talks have been viewed by over 7 million people) as she joins host Helen Bagnall to explore the pandemic, preparedness, being more artist and less insurance salesman, and why we need less tech and messier human skills – imagination, humility, bravery – to create the futures we want and can believe in.

This event was recorded live as part of a programme of digital events for Berwins Salon North. Visit the HIF website to discover more from this fantastic arts, science and psychology series.

Podcast music by Joseph McDade

On today’s podcast episode the award winning author S.J. Watson sits down with Frankie Gray, to discuss his Yorkshire inspiration, his love of reading, being by the sea and his latest (brilliant) novel: Final Cut.

S.J Watson’s incredible first novel, Before I Go To Sleep, became a phenomenal international success and has now sold over 6,000,000 copies worldwide. It won the Crime Writers’ Association Award for Best Debut Novel and the Galaxy National Book Award for Crime Thriller of the Year, and was shortlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year Award 2012. The film of the book, starring Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth and Mark Strong, and directed by Rowan Joffe, was released in September 2014.

Podcast music by Joseph McDade.

International bestselling-author Patricia Cornwell talks to Alex Clark about her pulse-pounding thriller, Spin, featuring her brilliant and unusual new heroine, Captain Calli Chase.

Patricia Cornwell is one of world’s best-loved authors, with more than 120 million copies of her books in print and sold in more than 100 countries. Her research is unparalleled for its full and total immersion in the worlds she creates. For her new Captain Chase series, Cornwell travelled all over the US visiting NASA facilities and gained insider access to one of the world’s most secret and impregnable institutions. Along the way she learned to spacewalk, explored the training facilities used by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, and worked closely with many NASA scientists and astronauts.

This episode is kindly supported by Thomas and Mercer.

Podcast music by Joseph McDade.