UK Crime writer, Pauline Rowson is to appear at Havant Literary Festival on 27 September 2008. Rowson is author of the popular marine mystery series of crime novels featuring the flawed but ruggedly seductive DI Andy Horton and of the thrillers In For The Kill and In Cold Daylight, shortlisted for the World Book Day Prize 2008. Tide of Death, was chosen by Amazon as one of the Best Crime Fiction Reads for 2006 and Rowson’s latest crime novels, Deadly Waters and The Suffocating Sea have received rave reviews from America. Pauline Rowson will be talking about her writing career, taking a question and answer session and signing books at Havant Arts Centre from 10.30am to 12noon.

Also appearing at the Havant Literary Festival is the playwright Ronald Harwood whose plays Collaboration and Taking Sides are currently playing to rave reviews at Chichester Festival Theatre, travel writer Edward Enfield and Samuel Johnson Non-Fiction Prize Winner Kate Summerscale.

Havant Literary Festival takes place between 25 and 28 September. For more information, visit the website www.havantlitfest.hampshire.org.uk

Contact: Festival Press Officer, June Halford junehalford@googlemail.com
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