Sat 24 July  |  Crown Hotel  |  12pm

People are obsessed with looking for The Next Big Thing. Well, look no further. International bestseller Val McDermid has done the work for you. She’ll be introducing some of the brightest new talents of 2010 – Belinda Bauer, Attica Locke, Liam Mcllvanney and Stuart Neville – and letting them explain how they came to produce their extraordinary debut novels.

Tickets: £8.50