Val McDermid: A Life in Writing

As the Book Festival celebrates its 40th anniversary, Val McDermid talks to Peggy Hughes about her work, and looks back over key events in her life as a writer, exploring the ways in which they have sparked her fiction. Alongside McDermid’s bestselling series featuring DCI Karen Pirie, there’s 1979 and 1989 - the first novels of a new series charting the adventures of her latest fictional icon, Allie Burns.

Categories: Crime/Thriller, Fiction, Words/Reading, Writing/Publishing

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What Makes a Writer

To mark the Book Festival’s 40th year, we have invited five leading writers to join us in a series that explores that most creative and consuming of vocations: the writing life. In this series, Jackie Kay, Val McDermid, Elif Shafak, Bernardine Evaristo, and Ali Smith cast their minds back over their careers and reflect on some of the key moments and influences that have defined them as writers. What compels them to keep going despite the inherent difficulties of the task?…

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