Tales From The Darkside

For dastardly deeds, twisted plots and gruesome tales don’t miss Tales from the Darkside, a free series of rural pub book groups discussing some of the very best in crime fiction.  Crime readers are invited to just turn up to the location for a free book, which has been selected from the longlist for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year, plus an thrilling chat with a published crime author discussing all aspects of one the biggest literature genres.

Now in it’s third year, Tales from the Darkside will be visiting the following pubs:

The White Bear in Masham on 27 June at 6.30pm
The Coverbridge Inn in Leyburn on 3 July at 11am
The Countryman’s Inn in Bedale on 4 July at 6.30pm
The Standard in Northallerton on 11 July at 5pm. 

Reader in Residence: Ann Cleeves

Readers matter. Reading’s creative. We bring our own experience and imagination to a book. And writers couldn’t make a living without us.  Here at Harrogate we give readers the space and opportunity to share their opinions about the books and authors featured, and they’ve taken us up on it. Big style. Through the notice board, the free Saturday lunchtime book groups, over coffee, in the bar. If you like getting together with other fanatics, contact Reader in Residence Ann Cleeves. Ann’s an Award winning crime writer, but she’s a passionate reader. She’s run book groups in prisons, the Alaskan bush the Cheltenham Literature Festival and rural pubs in North Yorkshire.

Festival Book Group

Saturday 21 July 1 – 2pm at the Crown Hotel - FREE!

This year we’re going traditional. Did the crime fiction of the Golden Age really glitter? Join Ann Cleeves for a discussion of the work of Allingham, Christie and Sayers – and some less familiar, but equally interesting authors of the period.