Come along to hear Marnie in conversation, recounting her journey from rough Manchester estate to Cambridge University, from gritty thrillers to ‘cosy-crime’. Tickets are £5, refundable on the purchase of a book on the evening.
When Gill Swanley decides to take up gardening to fight a midlife malaise, she never expected it to become quite such a dangerous hobby.
Pushing herself to ‘get out there’, Gill picks herself up the secateurs and joins the Bromley Botanists. Here she finds a seven-strong group whose main agenda is how to win the coveted Golden Trowel for best community club of the year.
But when a dead body turns up in the community greenhouse, they suddenly have more serious matters to consider than victory. They must uncover whether their arch-rivals, Croydon, are taking things to another level or whether someone more dangerous is targeting their rag tag group.
Can they dig up the truth before someone else is left pushing up the daisies?
Marnie Riches grew up on a rough estate in north Manchester. Exchanging the spires of nearby Strangeways prison for those of Cambridge University, she gained a Masters in German & Dutch. She has been a punk, a trainee rock star, a pretend artist and professional fundraiser. Aside from literary pursuits, gardening is her passion.
Marnie’s award-winning crime-thriller debut, The Girl Who Wouldn’t Die, is ten years old this spring, and in that decade she has become a bestselling contributor to the genre, with four critically acclaimed series and hundreds of thousands of books sold in the UK alone. The Gardeners’ Club – a must-read for Richard Osman fans – may be Marnie’s twelfth murder mystery, but it is her first foray into cosy crime…with a horticultural twist!
When she isn’t writing about murder most foul, Marnie teaches academic writing for the Royal Literary Fund. She has been a course tutor and supervisor for Cambridge University’s Masters in crime- and thriller-writing. She teaches crime-writing for New Writing North and has also taught the Faber Novel Writing Course. She pens historical romance under the pseudonym, Maggie Campbell.
www.marnieriches.com
You may also like the following events from Medina Books IOW:
- This Saturday, 26th April, 07:00 pm, Wild Seas, Wilder Cities Book Launch Event in Cowes
- This July, 2nd July, 07:00 pm, ‘The Restless Coast’ talk with author Roger Morgan-Grenville £5 in Cowes
- This July, 17th July, 07:00 pm, Harry Diplock in Cowes
Also check out other
Arts events in Cowes,
Workshops in Cowes,
Literary Art events in Cowes.
