Reverend Richard Coles in Conversation with Greg Mosse

Guildford Book Festival

Join us with bestselling author Reverend Richard Coles, as he discusses his latest novel, A Death on Location with author Greg Mosse.

Guildford Baptist Church

Guildford Book Festival 2025

The Guildford Book Festival is an annual literary event that brings together authors and readers for a celebration of books and storytelling. It features a diverse program of events, including author talks, panel discussions and workshops.

Join us for a thrilling evening with bestselling author, Reverend Richard Coles, as he discusses his latest novel, A Death on Location with author Greg Mosse. As a movie set takes over the village of Champton, a murderer lurks behind the scenes in this delightfully fiendish instalment in the Reverend Richard Coles' bestselling cosy crime series.PLEASE NOTE: This event has been rescheduled from the original date shown in the Festival brochure.

ABOUT THE AUTHORThe reverend Richard Coles is a writer, broadcaster and an Anglican priest. He co presented Saturday Live on BBC Radio 4 for a number of years and appears, from time to time, on QI, Have I Got News For You and Would I Lie To You? He has won Christmas MasterChef, Celebrity Mastermind twice, and captained Leeds to victory in Christmas University Challenge in 2019. A contestant on Strictly Come Dancing (2017) and a third place finalist on I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! (2024) he exhibits huge bravery. He writes regularly for the Sunday Times, and is the author of half a dozen books, including a bestselling autobiography, Fathomless Riches, and the bereavement bestseller The Madness of Grief, written after the death of his partner, David Coles. The first three books in the Canon Clement series have all been No.1 Sunday Times bestsellers.

ABOUT THE HOSTGreg Mosse is a 'writer and encourager of writers', husband of international bestselling author, Kate Mosse. He has lived and worked in Paris, New York, Los Angeles and Madrid as an interpreter and translator, but grew up in rural south-west Sussex. In 2014, he founded the Criterion New Writing playwriting programme in the heart of the West End and, since then, has produced more than 25 of his own plays and musicals. His creative writing workshops are highly sought after at festivals at home and abroad. His superbly reviewed novel, The Coming Darkness, was published by Moonflower in 2022. Hodder &amp; Stoughton will release his gripping Maisie Cooper mystery series in July 2023.