In celebration of the 120th anniversary of the birth of Agatha Christie the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Harrogate is hitching a ride on the Orient Express! Get on board with the Big Read by reading one of the most iconic crime novels of all time, Murder On The Orient Express, and coming along [...]
New for 2009, the Festival is launching its very own Big Read in partnership with Penguin Books to get as many crime fans as possible reading in unison one of the classics of the crime fiction canon – The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler. The Big Read celebrates the seventy-year anniversary since the first publication [...]