Award-winning author of the Shetland, Vera and Two Rivers novels, Ann Cleeves has written some of the most popular crime fiction of recent times. Fuelled by great characterisation and knotty plots, her books have sold over 5 million copies and The Guardian has called her ‘the best living evoker of landscape’. Ann has had two crime series adapted for television; Vera and Shetland are hugely successful dramas starring Brenda Blethyn and Douglas Henshall respectively.

Her books explore the lives of flawed and complex characters caught up in extreme life events, violent death and dense mysteries that unfold like a Russian doll, with her popular detectives trying to solve the mystery at the heart of human motivation towards destruction. Her latest books are The Dark Wives and The Raging Storm. Ann Cleeves has been a passionate advocate for public libraries throughout her career and initiated and part-funded her Reading for Wellbeing project with local authorities across the Northeast  of England. In this wide-ranging discussion with writer Brian McGilloway (The Empty Room, The Last Crossing), Ann will explore the journey of her writing life so far.

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Ennis Book Club Festival is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.