Authors Electric

 Having had very few book events this year, I had two in the space of two days! I had the great honour of interviewing Sophie Hannah at Basingstoke Discovery Centre for Only Murders in the Library on Saturday 25th October. Sophie has two books out at the moment - No One Would Do What The Lamberts Have Done  and her sixth Poirot novel, The Last Death of the Year .  We were all thoroughly entertained as Sophie told us how she began writing the Lamberts book by dictating 400 words into her phone whilst still in bed in the morning – I think this is a writing tip worth copying! Also, she explained how she created village life in Cambridgeshire for the Lamberts, including an Agatha Christie book club who fall out over whether they can read Mary Westmacott or not. Here's the blurb for  No One Would Do What The Lamberts Have Done : You think it will never happen to you: the ring of the bell, the policeman on the doorstep. What he says traps you in a nightmare that starts...

It doesn't seem that long ago we had our previous event but it's been four months! We're returning to police procedural again but we have some amazing authors for you – Simon McCleave and John Sunderland. Here's more about them. Simon McCleave is a multi million-selling crime novelist who lives in North Wales with his wife and two children. Before he was an author, Simon worked as a script editor at the BBC and a producer at Channel 4 before working as a story analyst in Los Angeles. He then became a script writer, writing on series such as  Silent Witness ,  The Bill ,  EastEnders  and many more. His Channel 4 film  Out of the Game  was critically acclaimed and described as ‘ an unflinching portrayal of male friendship ’ by  Time Out . His first book,  The Snowdonia Killings , was released in January 2020 and soon became an Amazon Bestseller, reaching No 1 in the UK Chart and selling over 400,000 copies. His twenty subsequent novels in the D...