Richard Armitage - Digital ticket
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Richard Armitage£5
We welcome one of the UK’s most popular actors to Bloody Scotland in his latest role as bestselling author. Richard Armitag’s string of stellar acting credits include The Hobbit, North and South, Into the Storm, and Spooks, but he’s now turned his talents to writing crime fiction with his outstanding debut Geneva. A Nobel Prize-winning scientist with Alzheimer’s attends a biotech conference where technology will be unveiled that could save her life. But with her memory failing, Sarah Collier knows only that she can trust no one. Not even herself.
Richard will be interviewed by TV and radio presenter Bryan Burnett.
Crime in the Spotlight reading from Jake Bowen-Bate.
Live at 20:30 on Friday 13th September, online until 30th September.
Louise Minchin and Ruth Ware
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Louise Minchin and Ruth Ware£12/£11
As a special Sunday treat for being so good all weekend, we offer a TV favourite and an international bestseller who have both placed reality television at the heart of their new books. Louise presented BBC Breakfast for 20 years as well as a host of other shows. Her first foray into fiction is with the acclaimed Isolation Island which draws deep on her TV experience. Ruth has had a string of stunning hits across the globe, such as The Woman in Cabin 10 and In a Dark, Dark, Wood, and is on top form in her new blockbuster One Perfect Couple.
This event will be chaired by TV and radio presenter Bryan Burnett.
Crime in the Spotlight reading from Jane McLoughlin.
Sunday 15th September, 12:00, Albert Halls
Ann Cleeves - Digital Ticket
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Ann Cleeves: in conversation with Lin Anderson£5
We are delighted that one of the world’s best-loved crime writers is making a welcome return to Bloody Scotland. Ann Cleeves is the creator of three outstanding crime series, two much-loved television drama in Vera and Shetland, and 36 novels translated into over 20 languages. Vera returns in The Dark Wives, as two bodies and a missing teenager set DI Stanhope onto a dark path where fact and folklore collide.
Ann will be in conversation with Bloody Scotland co-founder Lin Anderson. The latest in Lin’s Rhona MacLeod series, Whispers of the Dead, features a gangland slaying and a missing movie star in Glasgow.
Crime in the Spotlight reading from Nina Bhadreshwar.
Live at 16:00 on Saturday 14th September, online until 30th September.
Digital Pass
Event
Digital Pass£50
You can choose to watch a curated selection of events online.
You can watch these events live at the following
times plus your pass will give you access to catch-up
until the end of September.
Events included in this year’s pass:
FRIDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER
JD Kirk & Rachel Abbott
New Age Agatha: Benjamin Stevenson, Frances White, Ragnar Jonasson
Opening Reception and Prize Ceremony
Peter James and Elly Griffiths
Richard Armitage
SATURDAY 14TH SEPTEMBER
Everyday Extraordinary: AA Chaudhuri, CM Ewan, BA Paris
Abir Mukherjee and Chris Whitaker
Frank Gardner
AI or Die? Jo Callaghan, Ajay Chowdhury, Katie Ellis-Brown
Ann Cleeves: in conversation with Lin Anderson
Land of Fire and Ice: Katrín Júlíusdóttir & Lija Sigurdardóttir
Peter May: in conversation with Craig Robertson
Irvine Welsh and Louise Welsh
SUNDAY 15TH SEPTEMBER
Capital Offences: Emma Christie, Helen FitzGerald, Doug Johnstone
Chris Brookmyre & Stuart Turton
Chris Brookmyre wins McIlvanney Prize 2016
The late, great William McIlvanney described Bloody Scotland, which opens this evening, as the most ‘friendly‘ and ‘supportive’ festival he had ever been to.
Bloody Scotland 2016 is dedicated in his honour and tonight his online gambling brother Hugh McIlvanney OBE reveals that the winner of the inaugural Mclvanney Prize (previously Scottish Crime Book of the Year) is Black Widow by Chris Brookmyre.
The judges - journalist, Lee Randall, award-winning librarian, Stewart Bain and former editor of The Scotsman and The Times Scotland, Magnus Linklater – described Black Widow as:
‘like watching Olympic diving – just when you think the plot can’t twist again, it takes a new turn. Even the twists have twists. With a theme of cyber-abuse, this shows an author taking a long running series to new heights.’
Brookmyre first came to prominence in 1996 with his debut Quite Ugly One Morning which went on to be televised with James Nesbitt of Cold Feet fame in the role of Jack Parlabane. It won the Critics’ First Blood Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year and 20 years later Black Widow has not only won The McIlvanney Prize but is shortlisted for the prestigious CWA Gold Dagger Award to be announced on 11 October.
Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon tweeted in February that her husband had bought Black Widow for her as a Valentine’s present and she stayed up until 2am to finish it.
The McIlvanney Prize recognises excellence in Scottish crime writing, includes an award of £1000 and nationwide promotion in Waterstones.
