Mick Herron’s Slough House series has established him as one of today’s top spy novelists. Featuring an unlikely team of disgraced MI5 agents led by the irascible Jackson Lamb, the books have reached Number One on the Sunday Times Bestseller lists, as well as achieving critical success, being awarded two Crime Writers' Association (CWA) Daggers and the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award.
Join Mick Herron and Miranda Carter as they discuss fictional spies, real-life espionage, and the ways in which these two worlds sometimes meet.
This in-conversation event will take place at The National Archives in Kew. The event will last approximately one hour. A pop up bar will be open from 18.45, serving drinks before the event.
Mick Herron is the author of the multi-award winning Slough House thrillers, as well as the Oxford-based Zoe Boehm series. Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, he now lives in Oxford. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and was recently awarded the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Diamond Dagger.
Miranda Carter is the author of Anthony Blunt: His Lives, the award-winning biography of the World War Two spy and art historian. She has also written a series of historical thrillers featuring an ex-spy, Jeremiah Blake.
Photo credit: M Buck
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