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The Never-Ending Golden Age - Taking Christie's Blueprint in New Directions (21 Sept 2025) |
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THIS EVENT IS PART OF THE AGATHA CHRISTIE FESTIVAL
Agatha Christie is as synonymous with the Golden Age as Poirot is with Hastings, or Tommy is with Tuppence. In her Golden Age detective novels, Christie and her contemporaries created the blueprint for future detective fiction. Common tropes such as amateur sleuths, locked-room mysteries or seemingly impossible crimes, a small group of suspects, clues and red herrings, often feature in detective fiction written today. In our second Super Panel event, bestselling authors, Janice Hallett, Vaseem Khan and Steph McGovern discuss the never-ending Golden Age and how their novels are taking Christie's blueprint in new directions.
Janice Hallett is the author of five best-selling novels. Her debut, The Appeal, was a Sunday Times’ Bestseller and Waterstones’ Thriller of the Month. Her second The Twyford Code won Crime & Thriller Book of the Year in the British Book Awards 2023. The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels was a Richard & Judy Bookclub pick and an instant bestseller on its launch in January 2023, as was her novella The Christmas Appeal, in October 2023 and her latest novel The Examiner was published in August 2024. Her first murder mystery for children aged 8-12, A Box Full of Murders, is published in June 2025 by Puffin.
Vaseem Khan is the author of two award-winning crime series set in India, and the upcoming Quantum of Menace, the first in a series featuring Q from the James Bond franchise. His debut, The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra, was selected by the Sunday Times as one of the 40 best crime novels published 2015-2020. In 2021, Midnight at Malabar House, the first in the Malabar House novels set in 1950s Bombay, won the CWA Historical Dagger. Vaseem was born in England, but spent a decade working in India. In 2023, he was elected the Chair of the UK Crime Writers’ Association.
Steph McGovern is an award-winning broadcaster who currently presents The Rest is Money podcast with Robert Peston. Steph has worked in journalism for over twenty years, eight of them as part of the BBC Breakfast family. She went on to present her own BAFTA-nominated live daily show, Steph’s Packed Lunch, on Channel 4 and is a regular Have I Got News for You panelist and host. Steph is an avid crime reader and has interviewed countless authors including Val McDermid, Harlan Coben, Ann Cleeves, Hilary Clinton, Lee Child and Don Winslow, as well as judging the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award at the Harrogate Crime Festival since 2019. Deadline is her first novel.
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