Literary Lunch with Anthony Horowitz
Fri 25 Apr 2025 | 12:30pm - 2:30pm
Book early for this year’s two-course lunch with wine, where murder is firmly on the menu. Anthony Horowitz sets down his pen, picks up his fork and treats us to a criminally good discussion about his life in crime, including Foyles War, two new Sherlock Holmes novels and his latest page-turners the Magpie Murders trilogy. For an amuse bouche, he will introduce the final instalment Marble Hall Murders.
In conversation with Alex Clark
A two-course lunch plus a glass of wine is included. The event will take place in the Ballroom at the University Arms Hotel. Tables will be arranged in groups of 10, you will be allocated seats. Please check the seating plan upon arrival. If you have any special seating requirements or would like to be seated with friends who have booked separately, please let us know in advance.
Benefactor & Patron complimentary tickets cannot be redeemed against hospitality events at the University Arms.
Venue: University Arms Hotel
Duration: 1 hour
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Author Biography
Anthony Horowitz is one of the most prolific and successful writers working in the UK – and is unique for working across so many media. Anthony is a born polymath; juggling writing books, TV series, films, plays and journalism. Anthony has written over 50 books including the bestselling teen spy series Alex Rider, which is estimated to have sold 21 million copies worldwide and has been turned into a hugely successful TV series by Amazon Freevee. A third series has just been filmed and the fourteenth Alex Rider novel, Nightshade: Revenge will be published in 2023.
Anthony is also an acclaimed writer for adults and was commissioned by the Conan Doyle estate (The House of Silk, Moriarty) and the Ian Fleming estate (Trigger Mortis, Forever and Day and With a Mind to Kill) to write new adventures for two of literature’s greatest icons. He appears as a hapless sidekick in the Hawthorne series and has just started the sixth book in the series. Marble Hall Murders, starring Lesley Manville, starts shooting in May and finishes the trilogy which began with Magpie Murders and Moonflower Murders.
Chair Biography
Alex Clark is a broadcaster and journalist, who writes for many publications including the Guardian, the Observer, and the Times Literary Supplement. She was the co-host on the Graham Norton Book Club for Audible and hosts the TLS podcast. She is a professional chairperson and appears all over the UK at Cheltenham, Hay and the Southbank Centre. Alex is a festival honorary patron and now lives in Ireland.
