Join author Nicola Upson as she celebrates her new novel The Christmas Clue. A murder mystery game becomes all too horribly real in this delicious slice of festive cosy crime from the much-loved author of the Josephine Tey series. Nicola Upson and Marcia Lewis, the daughter of Cluedo inventors Anthony and Elva Pratt, will be in conversation with author Mandy Morton.
Book signing to follow.
Nicola Upson was born in Suffolk and read English at Downing College, Cambridge. She has worked in theatre and as a freelance journalist, and is the author of two non-fiction works and the recipient of an Escalator Award from the Arts Council England. Her debut novel, An Expert in Murder, was the first in a series of crime novels whose main character is Josephine Tey, who – along with Agatha Christie – was one of the masters of of Britain's Golden Age of crime writing. She was shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger in 2018 for Nine Lessons and was longlisted in 2021 for The Dead of Winter.
