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Crime Salon at the Oxford Fringe April 8th

March 10th, 2010

Lesley is taking part in New Writing’s South’s Crime Salon. It is hosted by the Oxford Fringe .  Sharing the salon with Lesley are crimewriter and investigative television journalist Sue Walker and writer and broadcaster Carole Hayman (works include Radio 4’s and now TV’s Ladies of Letters) .

Book now! For details see:
http://oxfringe.com/programme/details/?show=168

Lesley Thomson at the Chamber of Commerce

March 5th, 2010

Lesley was guest speaker at  Brighton & Hove’s Chamber of Commerce with an audience of 80 members. The Chamber holds regular breakfast meetings for local companies. This gives people a chance to meet and discover new opportunities for their businesses in the course of conversation. Lesley talked about how her extensive portfolio career has contributed to not only the writing of fiction but to her ability to work with her publishers to promote her books.

Lesley on BBC One’s IMAGINE

December 20th, 2009

Crime writer Lesley Thomson on Imagine (BBC)

Programme on artist, Anish Kapoor. (Click on link to see screenshot THIS IS NOT A RECORDING)

The People’s Book Prize

December 16th, 2009

A WIN!

A Kind of Vanishing won The People’s Book Prize for January. This prize awarded by readers and supported by libraries across the UK.  Thanks so much to all readers who voted for me.

http://www.peoplesbookprize.com/

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Lesley on Radio Reverb’s In the Mex

December 16th, 2009
Lisa Holloway and Lesley Thomson - In the Mex

Lisa Holloway and Lesley Thomson - In the Mex

Broadcast on Radio Reverb’s In The Mex, Lisa Holloway, Chair of Creative Brighton asks me and my dog about writing, my favourite  music and gets some tips about how to write.

Lesley at Waterstones

December 10th, 2009

book_signingLesley signing copies of A Kind Of Vanishing in Waterstones.

Lesley reads at Brighton’s Books & Roses Festival

December 10th, 2009

Lesley read from A Kind of Vanishing and signed copies in April at the successful Books and Roses event in Brighton.

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