Thursday, July 23
9.30am – 5pm Creative Thursday
8pm Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award and Festival Opening Party
Friday, July 24
9am Special Guest: Mark Billingham interviewed by Laura Wilson
10.30am Digging Up the Past. Four of the best exponents of historical crime discuss the growing popularity of the past.
12pm New Blood. An introduction to five of the hottest new talents in crime fiction.
2pm The Raven and the Rue Morgue: Edgar Allen Poe.
3.30pm Shoot the Book. Successful screenwriters and novelists discuss adaptation for TV and films.
5pm Music to Murder By. Admirers of classical, jazz, reggae and punk rock discuss what their favourite sounds bring to the murder party.
6.30pm Big Sleep Mixer in the Bar
8pm In Conversation: Reginald Hill with John Banville as Benjamin Black
10pm Late Night Cabaret: Secrets and Lies
Saturday, July 25
9am Special Guest: George Pelecanos
10.30am Emerald Noir.
12pm Men in Crisis. Four writers discuss their disturbed, disturbing and sometimes deranged heroes.
1pm Readers Book Group
2pm Dangerous Dykes. Four of the best gay women novelists in discussion.
3.30pm Ranting Writers: Five Go Postal
5pm X-Rated: Sex, Drugs and Ultra Violence. Shocking, sickening, repulsive, amoral... how far can – or should – a writer go?
6.15pm Come Die With Me: Murder Mystery Dinner
8.30pm Special Guest: Lee Child, interviewed by Peter Guttridge with appearance by Andrew Grant
10pm Late Night Quiz
Sunday, July 26
10am Nursery Crimes. Four crime writers recall how their first steps in reading taught them to appreciate – and later emulate – a jolly good mystery.
11.30am Special Event: ‘The Wire’ David Simon and George Pelecanos
