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Saturday 21 June 2014, Ron Cooke Hub, University of York
Detectives and spies have always captured and enthralled the British public imagination. We are compelled to read between our fingers stories of murder and espionage, intrigued as to how the often idiosyncratic detective or spy orders the evidence to bring terrifying chaos to order.
Join us for a day of interviews and talks on the history and future of thrillers with some of the world’s most exciting writers.
10.30am to 11.30am
12.15am to 1.15pm
1.15pm - 2.30pm
The cafe will be open for refreshments.
2.30pm to 4pm
5pm to 6pm
Festival themes
- Structures of the Mind: Architecture and Innovation
- Arts and Society: Order, Chaos and Culture
- Revealing the Ancient World
- Creative Writing
- Empire and Trade
- Eoforwic: A celebration of Anglian York
- Economic growth for the many, not the few
- An Appetite for Food
- Interventions in Healthcare
- Maps and Exploration
- Murder They Wrote
- Performance
- Religion and Science
- Science: Out of the lab
- Shadows of War
- Sparks
- Our brain: The unknown frontier
- Transport and Tribulations: Going the extra mile
- The war that changed our world
Festival focus days
- Future of Food
Saturday 14 June- Economic Growth for the Many, not the Few
Friday 20 June- Murder They Wrote
Saturday 21 June