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Join us as we welcome two of Wales's leading crimewriters to Penarth for an evening of thrilling discussion. Belinda Bauer and Clare Mackintosh will offer exclusive insight into their new books and their writing lives. Belinda's new book The Impossible Thing is a sweeping tale of obsession, greed, ambition, and a crime that has remained unresolved for a hundred years.
1926. On the towering cliffs of Yorkshire, men are lowered on ropes to steal the eggs of the sea birds who nest there. The most beautiful are sold for large sums. But when small and hungry Celie Sheppard finds an 'impossible' red egg, it will forever alter the course of her life - and the lives of others.
100 years later in a remote cottage in Wales, Patrick Fort discovers his friend, Nick, and his mother tied up and robbed. The only thing missing: a carved case containing an incredible scarlet egg. Doggedly attempting to retrieve it, Patrick and Nick discover the cruel world of egg trafficking, and soon find themselves on the trail of a priceless collection of eggs lost to history. Until now.
BELINDA BAUER grew up in England and South Africa and now lives in Wales. She worked as a journalist and a screenwriter before finally writing a book to appease her nagging mother. For her debut, Blacklands, Belinda was awarded the CWA Gold Dagger for Crime Novel of the Year. She went on to win the CWA Dagger in the Library for her body of work. Her fourth novel, Rubbernecker, was voted Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. Her eighth novel, Snap, was a Sunday Times bestseller. It was longlisted for the Man Booker prize and voted Crime & Thriller Book of the Year at the Specsavers National Book Awards.
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Clare's new book is the third in her bestselling DC Ffion Morgan series, described as "superb, wickedly fun and devilishly clever".
When the body of an estate agent is found in an upturned kayak on Mirror Lake, DC Ffion Morgan quickly realises the accident has been staged. There's no love lost between Ffion and estate agents, but who hated this one enough to want her dead?
Over the border in Cheshire, DS Leo Brady has his own property nightmare on his hands. The Hill is the kind of place where owners relish people gawking at their multi-million-pound homes - but now someone is breaking and entering their houses one by one.
Ffion and Leo are about to learn that people will pay a high price to keep their secrets behind closed doors. And even on the most desirable street, there's a dark side...
CLARE MACKINTOSH is a police officer turned crime writer and the multi-award-winning author of seven Sunday Times bestselling novels, including I Let You Go, which was the fastest-selling debut thriller in the year it was released. Translated into forty languages, her books have sold more than two million copies worldwide, have been New York Times and international bestsellers and have spent a combined total of 68 weeks in the Sunday Times bestseller chart. In 2024 she published a memoir, I Promise it Won't Always Hurt Like This. Clare is patron of the Silver Star Society, a charity based at the John Radcliffe hospital in Oxford, which supports parents experiencing high-risk or difficult pregnancies. She lives in North Wales with her husband and their three children.
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Tuesday 25 February
7.30 pm (doors 7.00 pm)
Glamorganshire Golf Club, Lavernock Road, Penarth
Tickets: £10.00 Event Only / £22.00 including a copy of Other People's Houses (RRP: £16.99 hardback) / £22.00 including a copy of The Impossible Thing (RRP: £16.99 hardback) / £34.00 including BOTH books / £5.00 Student Ticket
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The Glamorganshire Golf Club, Lavernock Road,Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, United Kingdom
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