MAN ON A SCOOTER
date: 22 July 2010 at 18:33:17 - 0 comments
We spent last week in England.
The main reason for going was “Bodies in the Bookshop” in Cambridge, an annual get-together of crime writers, which is organised at Heffers Bookshop by Richards Reynolds, who is known around town as the “King of Crime.”
We had a great time, renewing friendships with writers such as Roger Morris (“A Razor Wrapped in Silk” - Faber & Faber), and meeting many other well-known writers we had only heard and read about, notably Sheila Quigley, Laurie King, Philip Purser, Ben Kane and Simon Scarrow. It’s impossible to name them all – there were over 50 crime writers present.
Afterwards we had dinner with the "heavy" mob - crime journalists, Mike Ripley of Getting Away with Murder, Mike Stotter of Shots Mag, and the Rap Sheet's inimitable Ali Karim (we hear that a well-known Faber author has been putting it around that HE is really Ali Karim - the rumour is totally untrue). Barry Forshaw (Steig Larson's biographer) and his wife, Judith (translator of Barbara Baraldi's first UK publication), came along too.
Judith and Daniela spoke Italian together all evening just to prove that Daniela really can speak the language.
We have no photos, unfortunately – I forgot the camera in London!
Back in London, however, we met up with our editor, Walter Donohue, at Faber & Faber. And there we did get a couple of snaps. Whenever we tell people that our editor rides his way around London on a folding scooter, nobody believes us.
Well, seeing is believing...
