Category: OTL2020 Words

Out to Lunch is proud to welcome Joanne Harris to this year’s festival. Joanne will read from The Strawberry Thief, the compelling new Chocolat novel, published 20 years after her original bestseller.

Joanne Harris is an Anglo-French writer, whose books include fourteen novels, two cookbooks and many short stories. Her work is extremely diverse, covering aspects of magic realism, suspense, historical fiction, mythology and fantasy.

In 2000, her 1999 novel Chocolat was adapted to the screen, starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp.  Chocolat has sold over a million copies in the UK alone and was a global bestseller.   She is an Honorary Fellow of St Catherine’s College, Cambridge, and in 2013 was awarded an MBE.

Doors 12:45pm | Unreserved Seating

Britain’s Queen of Crime Fiction, with more than 30 books to her name and 16 million worldwide sales, comes to Out to Lunch to discuss her new novel How the Dead Speak.

Her work was adapted for the successful Wire in the Blood ITV series starring Robson Green and for the last 20 years she has produced at least one fresh story per year and says she has no notion of slowing down.

McDermid is from Kirkcaldy and is a keen Raith Rovers fan. She also broadcasts on BBC Radio 4 and has become a regular on BBC1’s Question Time panel.

Doors 7:30pm | Unreserved Seating