Noirwich Crime Writing Festival
David Mark will join Andrew Martin and Karen Maitland for an historical plague panel ‘Grim Noir’. Visit the Noirwich Crime Writing Festival website for full details and tickets.
Beverley Literature Festival
David Mark joins Louise Welsh (author of No Dominion) to talk about her dystopian vision of present day London and his departure into the past to create a bleak and disturbing vision of Victorian Hull with his new book, The Zealot’s Bones. Past, present and future. Either way, it won’t be pretty. Visit the Beverley Read more
Off the Shelf: Festival of Words
City of Masks – S D Sykes and The Zealot’s Bones – D M Mark An evening of historical crime fiction, with two acclaimed authors. D M Mark has written six novels in the McAvoy series, including a Sunday Times bestseller. His latest, The Zealot’s Bones, is set in Hull, 1849 – a city in Read more
Lancaster Historical Writers’ Festival
D. M. Mark and Andrew Martin Just how difficult was it to investigate a murder in the 18th and 19th centuries? Not only were there no fingerprinting or DNA tests, none of the forensics we now take for granted, but there may well have been a cholera outbreak devastating the city or the only suspects Read more
Lancaster Historical Writers’ Festival
Anthony Riches in conversation with fellow author David Mark The Year of the Four Emperors was a dark, tumultuous time in Rome: rebellion was rife, the future was uncertain, and short-lived Emperor Galba made the fatal mistake of dismissing the Batavians of the Imperial Bodyguard. From the author of the bestselling Empire series comes an Read more
Crime and Hard Times by the Dirty River
Crime and Hard Times by the Dirty River: An evening of Hull Noir Join the panel to discuss Hull and Humberside as locations for gripping crime fiction, and to explore Hull Noir, an official 2017 UK City of Culture festival. The panel will include Nick Quantrill, Louise Beech and David Young and David Mark. Hull Read more
Hull Noir
Sleeping with the Fishes: Hull vs Iceland Nick Quantrill & David Mark vs. Lilja Siguroardottir & Quentin Bates. The panel look at the style, influence and distinctions and conflicts of Hull and Iceland as locations and inspirations for crime writing. More about this event. Find out more about Hull Noir
Read Regional ‘Meet the Author’ Beverley
David Mark kicks off East Riding Libraries ‘Meet the Author’ events for 2018. David spent more than fifteen years as a journalist, including seven years as a crime reporter with the Yorkshire Post – walking the streets of Hull which are now the setting for the Detective Sergeant Actor McAvoy novels. David is also a Read more
Read Regional ‘Meet the Author’ Hartlepool
David spent more than fifteen years as a journalist, including seven years as a crime reporter with the Yorkshire Post – walking the streets of Hull which are now the setting for the Detective Sergeant Actor McAvoy novels. David is also a regular at literary festivals and a much sought-after speaker
Read Regional ‘Meet the Author’ Calderdale
David spent more than fifteen years as a journalist, including seven years as a crime reporter with the Yorkshire Post – walking the streets of Hull which are now the setting for the Detective Sergeant Actor McAvoy novels. David is also a regular at literary festivals and a much sought-after speaker