Hastings Book Festival – A walk on the wild side: how we got into a life of crime

Adam Macqueen and William Shaw are journalists who have taken up writing crime fiction, producing popular and successful novels that have developed large and loyal audiences. St Leonards resident Adam’s latest novel in his Tommy Wildblood series, The Inalienable Right, was released earlier this year, and Brighton based William Shaw’s latest novel The Red Shore was published in July. His earlier book The Wild Swimmers was based in Dungeness. Both writers will take to the OB stage to talk about what got them started, their influences and will be reading from their work in this thrilling Sunday afternoon session.

Expect thrills galore as two journalists turned thriller writers talk about their route into crime.