An Evening at The Bookshop
It’s been in my diary for weeks and if you’re following me on social media, you can’t have missed it.
Last night was Who Dunnit? at the legendary bookshop in East Grinstead (people have crossed continents to visit it).
We were celebrating National Crime Reading Month, supported by the Reading Agency, and a packed house came to have a glass of wine and hear Angela Dyson (The Love Detective), Derek Farrell (Danny Bird Mysteries) and myself talk about crime reading, crime writing and the messy reality of poison.
We talked about our favourite books – and the ones we wished we’d written – and which writers we’d like to chat with over dinner. Mentions here for Oscar Wilde, Daphne du Maurier, Herodotus and of course, Agatha Christie.
John Pye, who has owned this bookshop for 40 years, insisted I stand on the step for the photograph – he wanted to bring a box, but I absolutely refused! – and I’m still the shortest!
We went out for supper afterwards and i didn’t get home until nearly midnight. It was a VERY good night!
Here are the first in each series of books.
