Last Morning at Crime Writers

We only had two events on the Sunday morning left and both were worth waiting for.
First up was TV PANEL: Vera. The character of Vera, created by Ann Cleeves is an immensely popular national crime fiction detective in book form and made more accessible by the TV series.
Steph McGovern, a BBC presenter, interviewed Ann, Brenda Blethyn who plays Vera and Kenny Doughty who plays her side kick and foil. Steph showed the way to run an interview and did it with professionalism and through out we had humour with plenty of laughs along the way. It was a privilege to be there. Ann Cleeves next book Seagull we bought and has been signed.

STRANGER THAN FICTION followed with the accomplished writer and interviewer NJ Cooper in the central chair. Either side of her was Chris Brookmyre, this year's winner, Eva Dolan, last year's winer, Sara Lotz and Kati Hiekkapelto. The programme states 'Writers have an uncanny knack of predicting the future' and they were asked to divulge their visionary experiences and to explore their deepest darkest fears. This was interesting and came back to the old cliché that 'Truth is stranger than fiction'. Basically you can write what you like and at some stage it can come true.
It seems that the inventive mind of the crime writer can predict anything! I made notes that I will decipher and explore later.