29 July 2009

The next Harrogate post in preparation is on...

John Banville and Reg Hill.  I hope to have it up by this afternoon.

29 Jul 2009 10:29:38 | Literary Festivals

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Some snippets from Harrogate's Crime Writing Festival 2009 On approaching Paul Johnston, talking to Martin Edwards at the time: ‘I remember you.’ Oh dear. ‘You were here last year and told me about an error in my book.’ Oh dear. ‘The one about the pub in Athens.’ ‘Well, I did tell you about an error but it wouldn’t have been me on that one. I don’t know anything about pubs in Athens.’ ‘The name changed across the pages.’ ‘Ah, that probably was me then. A continuity error.’ ‘Yes, a continuity error. It’s now been corrected.’ Relief. Nice to be remembered in a positive way. Later on the Sunday,...
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John Banville and Reginald Hill at Harrogate's Crime Writing Festival 09 John Banville and Reginald Hill were interviewed at the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival by Mark Lawson. By the time you read this, you’ll probably have already read the media reports of the controversial comments made by Banville, leading to replies that Banville is ‘slumming it’ when writing crime fiction, or thinks he is. But here are some notes I took of the event, to give you a flavour. In his introductions, Lawson noted that it was the first time a Man Booker Prize winner had appeared at a crime festival and asked Banville if his Benjamin Black books had been...

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