Literature Festival. Day 1.
After a decent breakfast we headed for the Royal Court Theatre & our first event of the festival Alexander McCall Smith ("call me Sandy") being interviewed by Julia Wheeler.
Sandy was an absolute delight and Julia was the perfect interviewer. Topics discussed ranged from 'pushy mothers in edinburgh', ( young Bertie from 44 Scotland St is a fave), Botswana and the no 1 ladies detective agency, poetry, short stories and all points in between.
An absolute cracker of a first session.
The clocks are put forward an hour at noon which means lunch is eaten quite quickly if one wishes to attend an afternoon session.
The afternoon session was "watching the detectives" and was panel of 3 authors whose books had been turned into TV series: Ian Rankin (Rebus), Mark Billingham (Tom Thorne), and Mick Herron (Slough House). Another great session as all 3 had different experiences from selling the TV rights through to how involved they were in the productions, and whether they had watched the series'.
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