EVENTS & TALKS
 

If you'd like me to speak at your writing / literature festival or to your group, please click here to contact me.

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​​TALKS AND EVENTS FOR 2025

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​Saturday 21 June from 10-12

CRAFTY GIFT SHOP, CHESTER-LE-STREET

Book signing of Secrets of the Toffee Factory Girls

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Friday June 27 at 10.30am
WITHERNSEA LIBRARY

A talk on my Scarborough cosy crimes for National Crime Reading Month
Free, all details here

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Tuesday July 1 at 2pm
BEEFORTH'S HIVE, SOUTH CLIFF GARDENS, SCARBOROUGH

A talk on my Scarborough cosy crimes in conversation with Scarborough poet Charlotte Oliver
FREE but tickets must be booked here

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Wednesday July 2 from 12-1
MRS LOFTHOUSE'S BOOK EMPORIUM, SCARBOROUGH

Book signing of my Scarborough cosy crimes 

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Wednesday July 2 from 1.30 - 2.30
CENTRAL TRAMWAY, SCARBOROUGH

Book signing of my Scarborough cosy crimes 

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Saturday 26 July from 2-3

SUNDERLAND CITY LIBRARY as part of CULTURE HOUSE SUNDERLAND
A talk on my writing life and my new book Secrets of the Toffee Factory Girls
I'll be in conversation with Sunderland historian Stuart Miller
Featherbed Books will be at the event to sell books which I'll happily sign
Full details

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Saturday August 2 at 11am
WALLSEND LIBRARY

A talk on my new book Secrets of The Toffee Factory Girls

Venue: Wallsend Library
Venue website

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Tuesday 2 September 2025 at 2pm
PRIVATE EVENT, Ouston, Chester-le-Street

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Saturday 13 September 2025 from 1-4
WRITE FESTIVAL @ THE WORD
Business & IP Centre North East
I will be on a panel giving advice to NE Writers
Venue: The Word (National Centre for the Written Word), South Shields
Venue website

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​Thursday 9 October 2025 at 11am
SEAHAM HARBOUR U3A

A talk on my writing life
Venue: Masonic Hall, North Road, Seaham

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Monday 10 November 2025 
PRIVATE EVENT, Scalby, Scarborough

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Tuesday 25 November 2025 at 2pm
BIRTLEY LIBRARY
A talk on Secrets of the Toffee Factory Girls

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