Criminal Minds
Bodies in the Bookshop invite you to spend a midsummer evening with us where we bring together some great authors from different career stages for an engaging discussion about their latest books and creative journeys, moderated by a favourite local author, Christina Koning.
Three brilliant authors - Katherine Faulkner, Sally Smith & Nicola Whyte - will be sharing with us an inspiring celebration of storytelling and creativity through discussion and readings from their books. Whether you’re a lover of crime fiction, an aspiring writer perhaps, or just curious about the lives behind the pages, this event promises to ignite your love for fabulous crime fiction!
Where: St. Botolph’s Church, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1RG
When: Thursday June 19th at 6.30pm.
TICKETS: FREE - but you need to sign up in the shop or by emailing info@bodiesinthebookshop.co.uk
Katherine Faulkner, an award-winning journalist, studied history at Cambridge. She has worked as an investigative reporter and an editor and was formerly the joint Head of News at The Times (London). She is the author of Greenwich Park, The Other Mothers and The Break-In.
Sally Smith spent all her working life as a barrister and later King's Counsel in the Inner Temple. A Case of Mice and Murder, is the first in a series featuring eccentric Edwardian sleuth, Sir Gabriel Ward KC, and was inspired by the historic surroundings of the Inner Temple in which Sally still lives and works and by the rich history contained in the Inner Temple archives. The second in the series, A Case of Life and Limb, will be published in July.
Nicola Whyte studied drama at Aberystwyth university, spent some years as a bookseller before becoming a web developer, now running a small digital agency in the West Country. Her debut novel, 10 Marchfield Square, was named as the first runner up in the 2023 Daily Mail First Novel Award, been long listed for the Cheshire Novel Prize and Mslexia Prize, and shortlisted for this year’s Comedy Women in Print.
Christina Koning has worked as a journalist, reviewing fiction for The Times, and has taught Creative Writing at the University of Oxford and Birkbeck, University of London. From 2013 to 2015, she was Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge. She won the Encore Prize in 1999 and was long-listed for the Orange Prize in the same year. The author of many books, she released Murder in Oxford, the latest in her Blind Detective series, in May.