<body background="bg_02.jpg"> <font size="3"><strong>Cheltenham Literature Festival 08</strong></font> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> </head> <body> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td width="17%" height="247" valign="top"><div align="center"> <p><font size="5"><a href="http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/"><img src="cheltenhamfestivil.gif" width="196" height="111" border="0" align="middle"></a></font><font size="3"><strong><br> </strong><br> </font> <p align="left"><font size="3"><a href="http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/whats_on/"> <strong> More Inforation and book on line</strong></a><strong><br> Box office can be contacted on 0844 576 8970 </strong></font> </div></td> <td width="70%" valign="top"><div align="center"><font size="5"><a href="http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/"><strong>The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival</strong></a></font><br> <font size="3">10 - 19 October 2008<br> <br> <br> <strong>Ruth Rendell, Alexander McCall Smith, Ben Macintyre, Andrew Taylor, David Canter, Frank Tallis C J Sansom, Clare Clark, Gyles Brandreth, Minette Walters, Toby Litt, <br> Doug Johnstone, Mark Billingham, Frances Fyfield, Russell James. </strong></font></div></td> <td width="13%" valign="top"><div align="center"><img src="rankinchelt.jpg" width="140" height="197"><br> <font size="3"><strong>Guest Director <br> Ian Rankin </strong></font> </div></td> </tr> </table> <br> <hr> <table width="75%" border="1"> <tr> </tr> </table> <table width="90%" border="0"> <tr> <td width="38%" valign="top"><p><font size="4"><img src="aquabutton.gif" width="15" height="15"> <a href="http://www.twbooks.co.uk/authors/rendell.html">Ruth Rendell</a></font> <br> <a href="http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/whats_on/event_detail.html?id=2422">Event 102 at Everyman Theatre</a> (reserved seating)<br> Tue 14 Oct, 6-7pm Tickets: £7</p> <p>The undisputed Queen of Crime, Ruth Rendell, joins us for a very special Festival event. She contemplates the opportunities afforded by writing under her alter ego Barbara Vine, as well as her award-winning books, from the Inspector Wexford series to new psychological thriller The Birthday Present. <p> <p><strong><a href="http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/whats_on/event_detail.html?id=2422"><font size="3">more info/book online</font> </a></strong><br> <hr> <p> <br> </td> <td colspan="2" valign="top"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/0670917613&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22"><img src="birthdaypresant.jpg" width="140" height="208" hspace="10" vspace="10" border="0" align="left"></a><font size="4"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/0670917613&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22"><img src="pblu.gif" width="46" height="22" border="0"></a> <a href="http://www.twbooks.co.uk/authors/bvine.html">Barbara Vine</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/0670917613&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22">The Birthday Present</a> </font>- Viking <br> It's late spring of 1990 and a love affair is flourishing: between Ivor Tesham, a thirty-three year old rising star of Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government, and Hebe Furnal, a stunning North London housewife stuck in a dull marriage. What excitement Hebe lacks at home, however, is amply compensated for by the well-bred and intensely attractive Tesham - an ardent womanizer and ambitious politican. On the eve of her twenty-eighth birthday, Tesham decides to give Hebe a present to remember: something far more memorable than, say, the costly string of pearls he's already lavished upon her. Involving a fashionable new practice known as 'adventure sex', a man arranges for his unsuspecting but otherwise willing girlfriend to be snatched from the street, bound and gagged, and delivered to him at a mutually agreed venue…<br> <br> <br> <br> <hr> </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="240" valign="top"><font size="4"><img src="aquabutton.gif" width="15" height="15"> Alexander McCall Smith</font><br> <a href="http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/whats_on/event_detail.html?id=2336">Event 24 at Cheltenham Town Hall </a>(reserved seating)</p><br> Sat 11 Oct, 12 - 1pm</p> Tickets: £ 8<br> Making a welcome return to Cheltenham, join bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith as he celebrates the tenth anniversary of his beloved No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, and discusses his successful writing, including The Comfort of Saturdays, the new book in his Sunday Philosophy Club series.<br></p> <p> <font size="3"><a href="http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/whats_on/event_detail.html?id=2336"><strong>more info/book online</strong> </a><br> </font> <hr> <p><font size="3"> <br> </font></td> <td colspan="2" valign="top"><font size="4"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/1408700654&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22"><img src="comfortsatday.jpg" width="140" height="213" hspace="10" vspace="10" border="0" align="left"></a><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/1408700654&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22"><img src="pblu.gif" width="46" height="22" border="0"></a>Alexander McCall Smith - <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/1408700654&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22">The Comfort of Saturdays </a></font>Little Brown <br> Isabel Dalhousie is a new mother and a connoisseur of philosophy; she'd rather not be a sleuth. But when a chance conversation at a dinner party draws Isabel into the case of a doctor whose career has been ruined, she cannot ignore what may be a miscarriage of justice. Because for Isabel ethics are not theoretical at all, but an everyday matter of life and death. As she attempts to unravel the truth behind Dr Thompson's disgrace, Isabel's patient intelligence is also required to deal with challenges in her own life. There is her baby son Charlie; Cat's deli to look after, not to mention her vulnerable assistant Eddie; and a mysterious and unlikeable composer who has latched on to Jamie, making Isabel fear for the future of her new family<br> <br> <hr> <br> . </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><font size="4"><img src="aquabutton.gif" width="15" height="15"> <a href="http://www.twbooks.co.uk/authors/irankin.html">Ian Rankin</a></font> (Guest Director)<br> Born in the Kingdom of Fife in 1960, Ian Rankin graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1982. His first Rebus novel was published in 1987, and the Rebus books are now translated into twenty-two languages and are bestsellers on several continents. He is the recipient of four Crime Writers' Association Dagger Awards including the prestigious Diamond Dagger in 2005. In 2004, Ian won America's celebrated Edgar Award for 'Resurrection Men'. He recently received the OBE for services to literature, opting to receive the prize in his home city of Edinburgh, where he lives with his partner and two sons.<br> <br> <hr> </td> <td colspan="2" valign="top"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/0752890700&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22"><img src="opendoor.jpg" width="140" height="210" hspace="10" vspace="10" border="0" align="left"></a><font size="4"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/0752890700&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22"><img src="pblu.gif" width="46" height="22" border="0"></a> <a href="http://www.twbooks.co.uk/authors/irankin.html">Ian Rankin</a> - <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/0752890700&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22">Doors Open</a> </font>- Orion<br> For the right man, all doors are open...Mike Mackenzie is a self-made man with too much time on his hands and a bit of the devil in his soul. He is looking for something to liven up the days and perhaps give new meaning to his existence. A chance encounter at an art auction offers him the opportunity to do just that as he settles on a plot to commit a 'perfect crime'. He intends to rip-off one of the most high-profile targets in the capital - the National Gallery of Scotland. So, together with two close friends from the art world, he devises a plan to a lift some of the most valuable artwork around. But of course, the real trick is to rob the place for all its worth whilst persuading the world that no crime was ever committed. But soon after he enters the dark waters of the criminal underworld he realises that it's very easy to drown...<br> <hr> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><p><font size="4"><img src="aquabutton.gif" width="15" height="15"> Ian Fleming </font><br> <a href="http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/whats_on/event_detail.html?id=2360">Event 44 at Garden Theatre </a>(unreserved seating)<br> Sun 12 Oct, 10 - 11am Tickets: £7</p> <p> <br> For your eyes only… Celebrating the centenary of Ian Fleming’s birth and the Imperial War Museum’s major exhibition, join Ben Macintyre, acclaimed Times journalist and <a href="http://www.tangled-web.co.uk/crimedigests/digests07/bloomsbuau07.html#Agent%20Zigzag:%20The%20True%20Wartime%20Story%20of%20Eddie%20Chapman">Agent Zigzag</a> author, as he takes a look at the life and iconic work of the man who created the world’s most famous secret agent, James Bond.</p> <p><font size="3"><strong> <br> <a href="http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/whats_on/event_detail.html?id=2360">more info/book online</a></strong> </font><a href="http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/whats_on/event_detail.html?id=2360"><br> <br> </a></p> <hr> <p><a href="http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/whats_on/event_detail.html?id=2360"> <br> </a> </p></td> <td colspan="2" valign="top"><p><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/0747592837&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22"><img src="agentzigzag.jpg" width="140" height="214" hspace="10" vspace="10" border="0" align="left"></a><font size="4"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/0747592837&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22"><img src="pblu.gif" width="46" height="22" border="0"></a> Ben Macintyre - <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/0747592837&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22">Agent Zigzag</a> </font>- Bloomsbury </p> <p>One December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field. His mission: to sabotage the British war effort. His name was Eddie Chapman, but he would shortly become MI5's Agent Zigzag. Dashing and louche, courageous and unpredictable, the traitor was a patriot inside, and the villain a hero. The problem for Chapman, his many lovers and his spymasters was knowing who he was.</p> <p>Ben Macintyre weaves together diaries, letters, photographs, memories and top-secret MI5 files to create the exhilarating account of Britain's most sensational double agent. <br> <br> </p> <hr> <p> <br> </p></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="246" valign="top"><p><font size="4"><img src="aquabutton.gif" width="15" height="15"></font> <font size="4"><a href="http://www.twbooks.co.uk/authors/ataylor.html">Andrew Taylor</a> </font> <br> <br> <a href="http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/whats_on/event_detail.html?id=2290">Setting the Scene (1)</a> Event W01 at St. Andrew's Church, Montpellier (unreserved seating)<br> Mon 13 Oct, 10am – 1pm Tickets: £20<br> <br> This workshop provides unbeatable first-hand knowledge from Andrew Taylor, celebrated author of <a href="http://www.tangled-web.co.uk/crimedigests/digests08/harperpesp08.html#The%20American%20Boy">The American Boy</a> and the successfully televised Fallen Angel, on setting the scene and writing that all-important opening passage. <p><font size="3"><strong><a href="http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/whats_on/event_detail.html?id=2290">more info/book online</a></strong> </font><br> </p> <hr> </p></td> <td colspan="2" valign="top"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/0007266731&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22"><img src="americanboy.jpg" width="140" height="222" hspace="10" vspace="10" border="0" align="left"></a><font size="4"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/0007266731&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22"><img src="pblu.gif" width="46" height="22" border="0"></a> <a href="http://www.twbooks.co.uk/authors/ataylor.html">Andrew Taylor</a> - <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/0007266731&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22">The American Boy</a></font> - Harper Perennial<br> When Edgar Allan Poe came to live with foster parents in London early in the nineteenth century, Anglo-American relations were tense, his father -- feckless actor David Poe -- had disappeared without trace, and the London tobacco market was on the point of collapse. Sent to boarding school in Stoke Newington, Poe could easily have run into characters like Roderic Fleetwood, an impoverished usher at the school and the central character of An American Boy. Merging fact and fiction, this major literary suspense novel is woven around Poe's school days as seen through Fleetwood's eyes, and explores a relatively unknown period in the writer's life that may well have been the inspiration for his later novel William Wilson. <br> <br> <hr> <br> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><font size="4"><img src="aquabutton.gif" width="15" height="15"></font> <font size="4">Freud Investigates<br> <a href="http://www.tangled-web.co.uk/crimedigests/digests07/virginwi07.html#Mapping%20Murder:%20Secrets%20of%20Geographical%20Profiling">David Canter</a>, <a href="http://www.tangled-web.co.uk/crimedigests/digests08/arrowau08.html#Fatal%20Lies">Frank Tallis</a> & Sonu Shamdasani<br> Writers and Remedies</font> <br> <a href="http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/whats_on/event_detail.html?id=2417">Event 97 at Cheltenham Town Hall</a> (unreserved seating) <br> Tue 14 Oct, 4-5pm Tickets: £6 <font size="4"><br> </font>Sigmund Freud was an admirer of detective fiction, and his models for analysing human behaviour deeply influenced the development of the study of psychology as well as crime fiction. Crime novelist and leading psychologist <a href="http://www.tangled-web.co.uk/crimedigests/digests08/arrowau08.html#Fatal%20Lies">Frank Tallis </a>and one of the country's leading criminal psychologists and award winning author David Canter are joined by historian of psychology and psychiatry Sonu Shamdasani to discuss Freud's legacy and the influence of his ideas on both psychology and crime writing.<font size="4"><br> </font><font size="3"><strong><a href="http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/whats_on/event_detail.html?id=2417">more info/book online</a></strong> </font><a href="http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/whats_on/event_detail.html?id=2417"><font size="4"> </font></a><br> <font size="4"> </font> <hr></td> <td width="29%" valign="top"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/0753513269&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22"><img src="mappingmurder.jpg" width="140" height="209" border="0" align="left"></a><font size="4"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/0753513269&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22"><img src="pblu.gif" width="46" height="22" border="0"></a> <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/0753513269&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22">David Canter - Mapping Murder</a>: Secrets of Geographical Profiling</font> (Virgin)<br> David Canter believes the roots of murder can be better understood by careful consideration of the parallels between the criminal's psychological journey and the actual paths he follows. <br> <br> <br> <br> <hr> </td> <td width="33%" valign="top"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/0099471299&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22"><img src="fatallies.jpg" width="140" height="209" border="0" align="left"></a><font size="4"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/0099471299&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22"><img src="pblu.gif" width="46" height="22" border="0"></a> <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/0099471299&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22">Frank Tallis Fatal Lies</a> - </font>Arrow <br> It is Vienna, 1903. In St. Florian's military school, a rambling edifice set high in the hills of the City's famous woods, a young cadet is found dead - his body lacerated with razor wounds. Once again, Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt calls on his friend - and disciple of Freud - Doctor Max Liebermann, to help him with the investigation. <br> <br> <br> <br> <hr> </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="276" valign="top"><font size="4"><img src="aquabutton.gif" width="15" height="15"></font> <font size="4">C J Sansom & Clare Clark </font> <p><a href="http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/whats_on/event_detail.html?id=2435">Event 115 at Cheltenham Town Hall</a> (unreserved seating)more info/book online<br> Wed 15 Oct, 2-3pm Tickets: £6</p> <p>C J Sansom's Tudor detective Shardlake has won legions of devoted fans; his latest mystery unites a religious maniac, Henry VIII’s future wife and the Book of Revelation. Clare Clark's The Nature of Monsters is a compelling historical tale set against the clamour and roar of 18th-century London They talk about their work and the challenges of re-imagining the past.<br> <font size="3"><strong><a href="http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/whats_on/event_detail.html?id=2435">more info/book online</a></strong></font> <br> </p> <hr> <p> <br> </p></td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/1405092726&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22"><img src="revelation.jpg" width="140" height="214" border="0" align="left"></a><font size="4"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/1405092726&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22"><img src="pblu.gif" width="46" height="22" border="0"></a> C J Sansom <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/1405092726&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22">Revelation </a></font>- Macmillan<br> Spring, 1543. King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, whom he wants for his sixth wife. But this time the object of his affections is resisting. Archbishop Cranmer and the embattled Protestant faction at court are watching keenly, for Lady Catherine is known to have reformist sympathies. <br> <br> <hr> <br> <br> <br> </td> <td valign="top"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/0141018348&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22"><img src="naturemonster2.jpg" width="140" height="211" border="0" align="left"></a><font size="4"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/0141018348&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22"><img src="pblu.gif" width="46" height="22" border="0"></a> Clare Clark - <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/0141018348&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22">The Nature of Monsters</a></font> - Penguin<br> It is 1718 and, in a small parish near Newcastle, Eliza Tally, a headstrong girl of 15, embarks on a reckless love affair that will prove her undoing. When her lover casts her off, denying their union, she is forced to travel to London, a city that attracts and alarms her in equal measure. <br> <br> <br> <hr> </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="263" valign="top"><p><font size="4"><img src="aquabutton.gif" width="15" height="15"></font> <font size="4">Tony Benn, Tariq Ali & <a href="http://www.twbooks.co.uk/authors/irankin.html">Ian Rankin</a></font><br> <a href="http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/whats_on/event_detail.html?id=2503">Event 183 at Cheltenham Town Hall </a>(reserved seating)Sat 18 Oct, 12-1pm Tickets: £8 <br> 1968 was a year of political turmoil and public unrest but how has popular protest and dissent developed since then and why was ’68 such an extraordinary year? Former MP Tony Benn and writer and campaigner Tariq Ali join Ian Rankin to explore the lingering reverberations of 1968 and the modern face of political protest. Programmed by Ian Rankin. </p> <p><font size="3"><strong><a href="http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/whats_on/event_detail.html?id=2503">more info/book online</a></strong></font> <br> <hr></td> <td colspan="2" valign="top"><p><font size="4"><a href="http://www.tangled-web.co.uk/crimedigests/digests08/11orionau08.html#Exit%20Music."><img src="exitmusic.jpg" width="140" height="216" border="0" align="left"></a><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0752893513?tag=tangledweb01&camp=1406&creative=6394&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0752893513&adid=0RGG7D2KE9D0G5XG1Z59&"><img src="pblu.gif" width="46" height="22" border="0"></a> <a href="http://www.twbooks.co.uk/authors/irankin.html">Ian Rankin</a> - <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0752893513?tag=tangledweb01&camp=1406&creative=6394&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0752893513&adid=0RGG7D2KE9D0G5XG1Z59&">Exit Music</a> </font>- Orion<br> It's late autumn in Edinburgh and late autumn in the career of Detective Inspector John Rebus. As he tries to tie up some loose ends before retirement, a murder case intrudes. A dissident Russian poet has been found dead in what looks like a mugging gone wrong. By apparent coincidence, a high-level delegation of Russian businessmen is in town - and everyone is determined that the case should be closed quickly and clinically. But the further they dig, the more Rebus and DS Siobhan Clarke become convinced that they are dealing with something more than a random attack - especially after a particularly nasty second killing.<br> <br> <br> </p> <hr> <p> </p></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="289" valign="top"><font size="4"><img src="aquabutton.gif" width="15" height="15"></font> <font size="4">Gyles Brandreth </font> <p><a href="http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/whats_on/event_detail.html?id=2504">Event 184 at Everyman Theatre</a> (reserved seating) <br> Sat 18 Oct, 12-1pm Tickets: £7<br> Author, broadcaster, actor and former MP Gyles Brandreth joins us to discuss <a href="http://www.tangled-web.co.uk/crimedigests/digests08/johnmurrsu08.html#Oscar%20Wilde%20and%20the%20Ring%20of%20Death:%20Oscar%20Wilde%20Murder%20Mysteries%20Bk.%202">Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death</a>, the second witty instalment in his grippingly authentic Victorian murder mystery series featuring the playwright, poet and raconteur Wilde in the role of detective, supported by his partner-in-crime, Arthur Conan Doyle. </p> <p><br> <font size="3"><strong><a href="http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/whats_on/event_detail.html?id=2504">more info/book online</a></strong></font> </p> <hr></td> <td colspan="2" valign="top"><font size="4"><a href="http://www.tangled-web.co.uk/crimedigests/digests08/johnmurrsu08.html#Oscar%20Wilde%20and%20the%20Ring%20of%20Death:%20Oscar%20Wilde%20Murder%20Mysteries%20Bk.%202"><img src="oscarwilderingdeath.jpg" width="140" height="226" border="0" align="left"></a><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/0719569508&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22"><img src="pblu.gif" width="46" height="22" border="0"></a> Gyles Brandreth - <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/0719569508&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22">Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death</a></font> - John Murray<br> I see murder in this unhappy hand!' When Mrs Robinson, palmist to the Prince of Wales, reads Oscar Wilde's palm she cannot know what she has predicted. Nor can Oscar know what he has set in motion when, that same evening, he proposes a game of 'Murder' in which each of his Sunday Supper Club guests must write down those whom they would like to kill. For the fourteen 'victims' begin to die mysteriously, one by one, and in the order in which their names were drawn from the bag! With growing horror, Wilde and his confidantes Robert Sherard and Arthur Conan Doyle, realise that one of their guests that evening must be the murderer. In a race against time, Wilde will need all his powers of deduction and knowledge of human behaviour before he himself -- the thirteenth name on the list -- becomes the killer's next victim. <br> <hr> </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="325" valign="top"><p><font size="4"><img src="aquabutton.gif" width="15" height="15"></font> <font size="4">Jilly Cooper & <a href="http://www.twbooks.co.uk/authors/irankin.html">Ian Rankin</a> <br> </font><a href="http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/whats_on/event_detail.html?id=2517">Event 197 at Cheltenham Town Hall</a> (reserved seating) <br> Sat 18 Oct, 6-7pm Tickets: £9<br> 1968 was supposed to kickstart the sexual revolution; 40 years on, how have the ways we read and write about sex and permissiveness changed? Join bestselling novelist Jilly Cooper and Ian Rankin as they explore sex on the page from the sixties to the noughties... Programmed by Ian Rankin.<br> </p> <p><font size="3"><strong><a href="http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/whats_on/event_detail.html?id=2517">more info/book online</a></strong></font> <br> <br> </p> <font size="4"> </font></p> <hr></td> <td colspan="2" valign="top"><font size="4"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/055215637X&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22"><img src="rivals.jpg" width="140" height="236" border="0" align="left"></a><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/055215637X&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22"><img src="pblu.gif" width="46" height="22" border="0"></a></font> <font size="4">Jilly Cooper - <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/055215637X&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22">Rivals</a> </font>- Corgi <br> Into the cut-throat world of Corinium television comes Declan O’Hara, a mega-star of great glamour and integrity with a radiant feckless wife, a handsome son and two ravishing teenage daughters. Living rather too closely across the valley is Rupert Campbell-Black, divorced and as dissolute as ever, and now the Tory Minister for Sport. <p>Declan needs only a few days at Corinium to realise that the Managing Director, Lord Baddingham, is a crook who has recruited him merely to help retain the franchise for Corinium. Baddingham has also enticed Cameron Cook, a gorgeous but domineering woman executive, to produce Declan’s programme. Declan and Cameron detest each other, provoking a storm of controversy into which Rupert plunges with his usual abandon. <br> <hr> <p> </p></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="305" valign="top"><font size="4"><img src="aquabutton.gif" width="15" height="15"></font> <font size="4">Anthony Busuttil, <a href="http://www.twbooks.co.uk/authors/irankin.html">Ian Rankin</a> & <a href="http://www.twbooks.co.uk/authors/minettewalters.html">Minette Walters</a><br> Bodies <br> </font>How important is it for leading crime writers such as Ian Rankin and Minette Walters to keep up with the latest developments in forensic pathology – and how do they portray the realities of the science in their work? They join pathologists Stephen Leadbeatter and Anthony Busuttil to discuss the relationship between forensic science and its portrayal in fiction. <p><a href="http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/whats_on/event_detail.html?id=2523">Event 203 at Garden Theatre</a> (unreserved seating)<br> Sat 18 Oct, 8.45-9.45pm Tickets: £6<br> <font size="3"><strong><a href="http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/whats_on/event_detail.html?id=2523">more info/book online</a><br> </strong></font> <hr> <p><font size="3"><strong> </strong></font></p></td> <td colspan="2" valign="top"><font size="4"><a href="http://www.tangled-web.co.uk/crimedigests/digests08/pansu08.html#The%20Chameleon%27s%20Shadow"><img src="chameleonshadow.jpg" width="140" height="216" border="0" align="left"></a><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/0330449559&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22"><img src="pblu.gif" width="46" height="22" border="0"></a></font> <font size="4"><a href="http://www.twbooks.co.uk/authors/minettewalters.html">Minette Walters</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/0330449559&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22">The Chameleon's Shadow </a></font>- Pan<br> When Lieutenant Charles Acland is flown home from Iraq with serious head injuries, he faces not only permanent disfigurement but also an apparent change to his previously outgoing personality. Crippled by migraines, and suspicious of his psychiatrist, he begins to display sporadic bouts of aggression, particularly against women, especially his ex-fiancee who seems unable to accept that the relationship is over.After his injuries prevent his return to the army, he cuts all ties with his former life and moves to London. Alone and unmonitored, he sinks into a private world of guilt and paranoid distrust ...until a customer annoys him in a Bermondsey pub and he attracts the attention of local police investigating three murders which appear to have been motivated by extreme rage <br> <br> <br> <br> <hr> <br> </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="354" valign="top"><font size="4"><img src="aquabutton.gif" width="15" height="15"></font> <font size="4">Toby Litt, Doug Johnstone, <a href="http://www.twbooks.co.uk/authors/irankin.html">Ian Rankin </a><br> </font> <p>Can fiction ever truly capture the experience of music? And how do contemporary writers translate their own musical passions to the page? Singer-songwriter and author of The Ossians Doug Johnstone and novelist and band member Toby Litt join Ian Rankin to consider the relationship between words and music. <br> Programmed by Ian Rankin.</p> <p><a href="http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/whats_on/event_detail.html?id=2533">Event 213 at Cheltenham Town Hall </a>(Drawing Room) (unreserved seating)<br> Sun 19 Oct, 1-2pm Tickets: £6</p> <p><br> <br> <font size="3"><strong><a href="http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/whats_on/event_detail.html?id=2533">more info/book online</a></strong></font> </p> <hr> </td> <td valign="top"><p><font size="4"><a href="http://www.tangled-web.co.uk/crimedigests/digests07/hamishhasu07.html#Hospital"><img src="hospital.jpg" width="140" height="216" border="0" align="left"></a><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/0241142806&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22"><img src="pblu.gif" width="46" height="22" border="0"></a>Toby Litt <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/0241142806&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22">Hospital</a> - </font>Hamish Hamilton<br> his is the most extreme and extraordinary read of the year. From one of Britain's most brilliantly talented younger writers comes a novel you will never forget. Savagely funny and searingly original, "Hospital" is a journey to hell and back. Hospital - get well soon? Yeah, right.<br> </p> <br> <hr> <p> </p> </td> <td valign="top"><font size="4"><a href="http://www.tangled-web.co.uk/crimedigests/digests06/michaeljau06.html#Tombstoning"><img src="tombstoning06.jpg" width="140" height="216" border="0" align="left"></a><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/0141027576&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22"><img src="pblu.gif" width="46" height="22" border="0"></a>Doug Johnstone <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/0141027576&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22">Tombstoning</a> </font>- Michael Joseph<br> Your best mate just fell off a cliff in mysterious circumstances and you were the last person to see him alive, what do you do? Well, if you're David Lindsay from Arbroath, you get the hell out of there and don't return. Not for at least fifteen years. Until Nicola Cruickshank - yes, that Nicola, the girl you always fancied but never had the guts to approach - gets in touch and asks - no, demands - that you go back for a school reunion. <br> <br> <br> <hr> </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="307" valign="top"><font size="4"><img src="aquabutton.gif" width="15" height="15"></font> <font size="4">Writing Crime <a href="http://www.twbooks.co.uk/authors/markbillingham.html">Mark Billingham </a><br> </font>Bestselling crime writer Mark Billingham, creator of DI Tom Thorne, as featured in Sleepyhead, Death Message and Buried, teaches this thrilling workshop on how to put crime on the page, spread clues throughout the story and find that all important mystery solving ending.<font size="4"><br> </font> <p><a href="http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/whats_on/event_detail.html?id=2310">Event W21 at University of Glos, Park Campus</a> (unreserved seating)<br> Sun 19 Oct, 2 – 5pm Tickets: £20</p> <p> </p> <p><font size="3"><strong><a href="http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/whats_on/event_detail.html?id=2310">more info/book online</a></strong></font> <br> </p> <hr> </td> <td colspan="2" valign="top"><font size="4"><a href="http://www.tangled-web.co.uk/crimedigests/digests08/sphereau08.html#Death%20Message"><img src="deathmessage.jpg" width="140" height="232" border="0" align="left"></a><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/075153725X&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22"><img src="pblu.gif" width="46" height="22" border="0"></a><a href="http://www.twbooks.co.uk/authors/markbillingham.html">Mark Billingham</a> - <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/075153725X&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22">Death Message</a> </font>- Sphere<br> The first message sent to Tom Thorne's mobile phone was just a picture - the blurred image of a man's face, but Thorne had seen enough dead bodies in his time to know that the man was no longer alive. But who was he? Who sent the photograph? And why? While the technical experts attempt to trace the sender, Thorne searches the daily police bulletins for a reported death that matches the photograph. Then another picture arrives. Another dead man ...It is the identities of the murdered men which give Thorne his first clue, a link to a dangerous killer he'd put away years before and who is still in prison. With a chilling talent for manipulation, this man has led another inmate to plot revenge on everyone he blames for his current incarceration, and for the murder of his family while he was inside. Newly released, this convict has no fear of the police, no feelings for those he is compelled to murder. Now Tom Thorne must face one of the toughest challenges of his career, knowing that there is no killer more dangerous than one who has nothing left to lose. <br> <br> <hr> </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="272" valign="top"><font size="4"><img src="aquabutton.gif" width="15" height="15"></font> <font size="4">Jack Vettriano & <a href="http://www.twbooks.co.uk/authors/irankin.html">Ian Rankin</a> </font> <br> One of the most popular artists working today, Jack Vettriano creates remarkable images that have captured the public imagination. In a rare Festival appearance he joins Ian Rankin in a discussion about his Studio Life, contemplating his work, its influences and how it has come to influence popular culture in turn.<br> Programmed by Ian Rankin.<br> <a href="http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/whats_on/event_detail.html?id=2541">Everyman Theatre (reserved seating) </a><br> Sun 19 Oct, 4-5pm</p> </p> Tickets: £9 <p><font size="3"><strong><a href="http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/whats_on/event_detail.html?id=2541">more info/book online</a></strong></font> </p> <font size="4"> </font> <hr></td> <td colspan="2" valign="top"><p><font size="4"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/1862057435&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22%20"><img src="studiolife.jpg" width="140" height="173" border="0" align="left"><img src="pblu.gif" width="46" height="22" border="0"></a> Jack Vettriano: <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/1862057435&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22%20">Studio Life</a></font> - Pavilion Books<br> Jack is one of the UK's most popular, and yet most controversial, contemporary artists. His pictures sell for a record amount of money, the paintings in his exhibitions are always sold out before the opening and 'The Singing Butler' made history for being the most expensive painting by a Scottish living artist ever to be sold at auction. We analyse Jack's own cultural influences and the influences his work has come to have on popular culture in turn.With outstanding and revealing photograph by Jillian Edelstein and a foreword from friend and fellow son of Fife, author Ian Rankin, this is a book to delight Jack Vettriano's fans. <br> <hr> <font size="4"> </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><font size="4"><img src="aquabutton.gif" width="15" height="15"></font> <font size="4"><a href="http://www.twbooks.co.uk/authors/francesfyfield.html">Frances Fyfield</a>, <a href="http://www.twbooks.co.uk/authors/rjames.html">Russell James </a>&<a href="http://www.twbooks.co.uk/authors/irankin.html"> Ian Rankin</a><br> Crime Scene Investigation <br> </font> <p>Do you like your crime writing hard or soft-boiled? The British crime scene is a rich mix of styles and influences, from hard-hitting, often brutal realism to character-driven psychological investigations. Crime writers Frances Fyfield, Russell Jamesand Ian Rankininvestigate the British crime fiction scene and ask where it might be heading next. Programmed by Ian Rankin.</p> <p><a href="http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/whats_on/event_detail.html?id=2548">Event 228 at Garden Theatre </a>(unreserved seating)<br> Sun 19 Oct, 7.30-8.30pm Tickets: £6<br> <br> <font size="3"><strong><a href="http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/whats_on/event_detail.html?id=2548">more info/book online</a></strong></font> </td> <td valign="top"><font size="4"><img src="bloodfromstone.jpg" width="140" height="216" align="left"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/1847440746&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22"><img src="pblu.gif" width="46" height="22" border="0"></a><a href="http://www.twbooks.co.uk/authors/francesfyfield.html">Frances Fyfield</a> - <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/1847440746&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22">Blood from Stone</a> - </font>Sphere<br> Marianne Shearer is at the height of her career, a dauntingly successful barrister, respected by her peers and revered by her clients. So why has she killed herself? Her latest case had again resulted in an acquittal, though the outcome was principally due to the death of the prime witness after Marianne's forceful cross-examination... </td> <td valign="top"><font size="4"><img src="noonegetshurt.jpg" width="140" height="219" align="left"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/1904316077&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22"><img src="pblu.gif" width="46" height="22" border="0"></a><a href="http://www.twbooks.co.uk/authors/rjames.html">Russell James</a> -<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/1904316077&tag=tangledweb01&camp=1634&creative=6738%22">No One Gets Hurt</a></font> - Do Not Press<br> When a young woman is gruesomely murdered, her friend and fellow reporter Kirsty Rice feels bound to investigate. Just as Kirsty enters the murky world of call- girls, porn and Internet sex, she discovers that she is pregnant. Despite his unconvincing denials, Kirsty is shocked to discover that the father of her unborn child is involved with the pornographers. Did he know about the killing? And how far was he mixed up with London's infamous Miller family? </td> </tr> </table> <hr> <br> <p align="center"><a href="http://www.twbooks.co.uk/index.html"><img src="tw.gif" width="55" height="55" border="0"></a></p> <table width="90%" border="1"> </table> <br> </body> </html>