James on Friday, May 24, at 7pm, to hear what’s possible with drive and determination to succeed. If it’s inspiration you’re looking for, join endurance athlete Mimi Anderson, appearing at the Spinroom Studio in Deeping St. Join her on Saturday, May 25, at 11.45am in the Coronation Hall. She was raised in Lincolnshire, and the haunting atmosphere of the Fens filters into much of her writing. Barbara is an Amazon, Kobo, and USA Today best-selling author of psychological crime thrillers. Book-lovers with an interest in stories shaped closer to home will enjoy Barbara Copperthwaite. You can see Sophie on Saturday, May 25, at Priory Church, Deeping St James (starting at 3pm). At her event, Agatha, Poirot and Me, Sophie will talk about how she was chosen to write the new Poirot novels, and tell us all how How To Hold a Grudge (the title of her 2018 non- fiction work) can be good for us.

Sophie’s latest Poirot novel The Mystery of Three Quarters was published in 2018.

These were the first new Hercule Poirot mysteries since the ‘Queen of crime fiction’ Agatha Christie’s death. In 20, Sophie published international best-sellers The Monogram Murders and Closed Casket. If you’re an Agatha Christie fan, you’ll not want to miss Sophie Hannah, a million-selling writer of psychological crime fiction, published in 49 countries. Supported by South Kesteven District Council, the 2019 Festival programme line-up is an impressive array of national and international storytellers including Cathy Bramley, Susie Boyt, Milly Johnson and more across four fabulous days of first-class wordcraft. Best-selling author Elly Griffiths’ appearance was an early ‘full house’, with many other events across the schedule selling well. Will Fliss tame the Monarch of the Glen and find the happiness she deserves? Read Tall, Dark and Kilted to find out.

Faced with the dole queue once more, Fliss resolves to make sexy, infuriating Ruairi revise his unflattering opinion of her, turn the therapy centre around and sort out the dysfunctional Urquharts. He’s determined to pull the plug on the business, bring his eccentric family to heel and eject undesirables from his estate - starting with Fliss. Fliss’s romantic view of the highlands populated by hunky Men in Kilts is shattered when she has an upclose and very personal encounter with the Laird of Kinloch Mara, Ruairi Urquhart. But there's a catch - the centre lies five hundred miles away - in Wester Ross, Scotland. When she’s offered the chance to take over a failing therapy centre, she grabs it with both hands. After attending a party in Notting Hill she loses her job and with it her dream of becoming her own boss. Fliss Bagshawe longs for a passport out of Pimlico where she works as a holistic therapist.

Tall, Dark and Kilted by Lizzie Lamb