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Capital Crimes: Writing the City
When: Wednesday 28th October 2009 - 6.30pm - 8pm
Where: Cardiff School of Optometry and Vision Sciences, Maindy Road, Cardiff, CF24 4LU
Round Table discussion inviting you to listen to and question a group of popular crime writers.
Cardiff University’s Crime Narratives in Context research network (CNIC) is presenting a Round Table discussion in which creative writers will discuss their crime fiction and the significance of the city settings in which their narratives are located.
There will be the opportunity to meet the authors prior to the Round Table
This event is free and open to the public. Please email capitalcrimes@cardiff.ac.uk to reserve a place.
The writers :
• Ann Featherstone is a teacher of and researcher into Performance History at Manchester University and Royal Holloway, University of London. Her first crime novel, Walking in Pimlico (2009), is a gripping psychological thriller set in nineteenth-century London.
• Cormac Millar lives in Dublin where, as Cormac Ó Culleanáin, he teaches Italian at Trinity College. Cormac’s first Dublin-set novel, An Irish Solution (2004) is a witty deconstruction of Irish crime and politics. He is currently working on a new crime novel.
• Lindsay Ashford is a crime novelist and journalist with a degree in criminology. Her 2006 novel, Strange Blood, was short-listed for the Theakston’s Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year award and her Welsh-born forensic psychologist heroine, Megan Rhys, had her most recent outing in The Killer Inside (2008). Although Lindsay lives in Wales, her books are set in and around the city of Wolverhampton.
• Richard Gwyn teaches, researches and practises creative writing at Cardiff University. His novels, more strictly speaking thrillers than crime fiction, are set variously in Crete and Pamplona (Deep Hanging Out [2007]) and Barcelona (The Colour of a Dog Running Away [2005]).
• John Williams is a Cardiff author, ex-punk fanzine writer, band member and journalist. His first book was a crime travelogue set in America, Into the Badlands (1991), followed by a foray into ‘faction’ with Bloody Valentine (1994), which explored the real-life murder of Lynette White in the Cardiff docklands. His Cardiff Trilogy (2006) comprises three interlinked contemporary crime fictions set in the seedier side of the city.
• Struan Sinclair is the author of the acclaimed short story collection, Everything Breathed (1999). Originally from Toronto, he now lives in Winnipeg, where he is director of the Department of English Media Lab and Writing Program/Focus at the University of Manitoba. Automatic World (2008), described as ‘a genuinely exciting book’ by the Guardian, is his first novel.