
Someone once told me that the definition of a writer is when they don’t get off the bus because the conversation they are listening to is too intriguing. Imagine then what you might overhear at Parker’s Tavern on April 19 as you munch your way through your beer-battered lemon sole and chips.
For crime writers Elly Griffiths and Val McDermid are hosting a two-course lunch there in which they talk about why crime writing is so addictive and their latest page-turners. It is just one of the events going on during this spring’s Cambridge Literary Festival, which runs from April 17 - 21.