Bookshop event 17 June 2024
A very special event
Many thanks to our friends at Steyning Bookshop who, to mark Independent Bookshop Week, arranged a Crime Writers’ Forum in Steyning Parish Church on 17 June. Over 150 people attended the sell-out event, which featured well-known author William Shaw interviewing local crime writer Elly Griffiths and ‘borderline National Treasure’ Revd Richard Coles.
Elly and Richard (William too) had new books to discuss and to sign afterwards. We learned a lot about the authors, their different methods and their history – who knew that William first interviewed Richard (then of the Communards) for a music publication in the 1980s? Or about the pencilled notes from her editor in the margins of Elly’s manuscripts (or that Beeding Cement Works features in her latest book)?