Ann Cleeves and Julia Chapman in Conversation

£6 per person

Suitable for ages 16+

Join top selling Pan Macmillan authors Ann Cleeves and Julia Chapman for an evening of all things crime related at our Festival finale event.

Ann will discuss her latest and tenth book in the acclaimed Vera Stanhope series, The Rising Tide and Julia will be chatting about her novels from The Dales Detective series, including her latest book Date with Betrayal.

About Ann Cleeves

Ann Cleeves is the author of more than thirty-five critically acclaimed novels, and in 2017 was awarded the highest accolade in crime writing, the CWA Diamond Dagger. She is the creator of popular detectives Vera Stanhope, Jimmy Perez and Matthew Venn, who can be found on television in ITV’s Vera, BBC One’s Shetland and ITV’s The Long Call respectively. The TV series and the books they are based on have become international sensations, capturing the minds of millions worldwide.

Ann worked as a probation officer, bird observatory cook and auxiliary coastguard before she started writing. She is a member of ‘Murder Squad’, working with other British northern writers to promote crime fiction. Ann also spends her time advocating for reading to improve health and wellbeing and supporting access to books. In 2021 her Reading for Wellbeing project launched with local authorities across the North East. She lives in North Tyneside where the Vera books are set.

About Julia Chapman

Julia Chapman is the pseudonym of Julia Stagg. Born with a wanderlust that keeps her moving, Julia has lived in Japan, Australia, the USA and France. During that time she tried her hand at many jobs including teaching English as a Foreign Language, bookselling, pawn-broking, waitressing – was once ‘checkout-chick of the month’ at a supermarket in South Australia – and she ran an auberge with her husband in the French Pyrenees for six years. She is now glad to call the Yorkshire Dales home, its distinctive landscape and way of life providing the setting for her latest series of novels, the Dales Detective.

Photo of Julia copyright of Colin Bullock.

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About WRITE Festival 2022

This event is part of The Word’s WRITE Festival which is being across the whole of September at The Word and other library venues.

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