The Library Room, The Feathers Hotel, 25 High Street, Ledbury HR8 1DS

7:30pm Thursday 22 May 2025

Ledbury Books and Maps is delighted to announce that its crime writing festival, Ledburied, is hosting an evening with Belinda Bauer and Sharon Bolton.


Belinda Bauer started out as a journalist and then took ages to fail at screenwriting (her words) before penning Blacklands, which won the CWA Gold Dagger. Since then she has written ten crime novels and a thriller called High Rollers under the name Jack Bowman. In 2018 she was nominated for the Booker Prize for her novel, Snap. Her latest novel, The Impossible Thing, was published in February 2025. Belinda grew up in England and South Africa, and now lives in Wales.



Sharon Bolton grew up in a cotton-mill town in Lancashire. Her second novel, Awakening, won the 2010 Mary Higgins Clark award in the US. In 2014, Sharon was awarded the CWA Dagger in the Library. She has been shortlisted for the CWA Gold and Steel Daggers, the Theakston's prize, and the International Thriller Writers' Best First Novel award. With seventeen books to her name, Sharon is a Sunday Times bestselling author and has been described by that newspaper as being ‘unable to write a sentence not suffused with menace.' Her latest book, The Neighbour's Secret, was published in November 2024.

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Tickets are just £8 and are available from

Ledbury Books and Maps (from the shop, 01531 633226 or online)