…in Blackwells Bookshop in Broad Street, Oxford, from 3.30 next Wednesday, 1 April.  It’s part of the ‘Fringe’ of the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival (and you can’t get a much more impressive title than that).

I’ll be talking with fellow-scribe Adrian Magson about crime writing . No charge, no tickets, no pressure – although from my point of view it looks like being an expensive day out. Not only am I incapable of leaving a shop like Blackwells without buying anything, but they also have Festival Marquee bookshop on Christ Church Meadow which it would be a shame to miss.

And… Oxford is also home to Oxbow Books, the archaeology/ history specialists, so it would make sense to pop in there too and save on postage…