Literary Lunch with Harriet Tyce
Thu 23 Apr 2026 | 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Book early for this year’s two-course lunch with wine, where murder, treachery and intrigue are firmly on the menu. Harriet Tyce sets down her pen, picks up her fork, and serves up a criminally compelling conversation about life on both sides of the courtroom: first as a criminal barrister, now as the Sunday Times bestselling author of Blood Orange and more.
She’ll be talking about her extraordinary new novel Witch Trial – a modern-day media storm sparked by the murder of a teenage girl in Edinburgh, the arrest of her two closest friends, and a case that spirals into rumours of bullying, obsession and something far darker. As motives blur and judgement wobbles, who can be trusted – and what really happened?
Chaired by broadcaster Alex Clark.
Venue: University Arms
Duration: 2 hours
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Author Biography
Harriet Tyce grew up in Edinburgh and studied English at Oxford University before doing a law conversion course at City University. She practiced as a criminal barrister in London for nearly a decade, and subsequently completed an MA in Creative Writing – Crime Fiction at the University of East Anglia. She lives in north London. Her first novel, Blood Orange, published in 2019 to huge critical acclaim and her second, third and fourth novels The Lies You Told, It Ends at Midnight and A Lesson in Cruelty have been Sunday Times bestsellers. Witch Trial is her fifth novel.
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 is a 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.
