Granite Noir 2025 - Hidden in Plain Sight (Author Conversation)
The Lemon Tree
5 West North Street
Aberdeen
AB24 5AT
Chaired by Fiona Stalker
In The Imposter Syndrome by Joseph Knox conman Lynch impersonates a missing man and dark forces are lured out of the shadows who will kill to keep their secrets. In Carole Hailey’s Scenes from a Tragedy Carly delves into the dynamics of a seemingly ordinary family, she uncovers a far darker story than she could possibly have imagined. In A Spy Like Me, Kim Sherwood continues her Double O series expanding the James Bond universe. Explore the world of secrets, spies and dark truths, hiding in plain sight.
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Joseph Knox has lived in Stoke on Trent, Manchester and London. In 2020, he became an Irish citizen. His debut novel Sirens was a bestseller and has been translated into eighteen languages. The Smiling Man and The Sleepwalker are the second and third books in the Waits trilogy. His first standalone novel, True Crime Story , was a Times number one bestseller.
Carole Hailey completed the Guardian/UEA novel-writing course with Bernardine Evaristo, who imbued Carole with such a love for writing fiction that she abandoned her career in law to study first an MA, then a PHD in Creative Writing. Her debut novel, The Silence Project , was a BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick, a Waterstones Welsh Book of the Month, and was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Christopher Bland Prize. She lives in Wales.
Kim Sherwood is a novelist and a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh. Her award-winning debut novel Testament was released in 2018, and in 2019, Kim was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. A Wild & True Relation, following a crew of smugglers in eighteenth-century Devon, was published by Virago in 2023. A Spy Like Me is the second in a trilogy of Double O novels expanding the James Bond universe.
Fiona Stalker is a Senior Presenter and Reporter at BBC Scotland. She presents programme across TV & radio including Drivetime and The Sunday Show on BBC Radio Scotland and Seven Days on the BBC Scotland channel . She previously worked for Reuters as Scotland Correspondent, lectured in journalism, and managed her own media training company.
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Granite Noir has teamed up with the Press and Journal and Evening Express once again to launch this year’s short story competition! Open to writers of 18 years and above, stories of between 1500 and 2000 words should be written on any of themes explored in this year’s Granite Noir programme and submitted by Sunday 26 January 2025. A shortlist of five stories will be decided by the panel of judges in February and the winner announced at the Festival.
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