This ticket gives you full access to every event on Friday 13 June 2025, the follow up book signings, a festival goody bag and the launch party on Friday 13 June. VAT included in ticket price

This ticket includes

• All panels for the day of your ticket (Friday)

• Access to the Fingerprint Award Ceremony on the Thursday night

• A festival goody bag

• Author signings on the day of your ticket

• Author launch parties on the day of your ticket

• 15% off in our onsite Goldsboro Books bookshop

Friday event highlights include:

• Thrillers That Go Bump in the Night with Linwood Barclay and Andrew Child & Nadine Matheson

• Criminal Minds Throughout History with Conn Iggulden, Kate Williams & Hallie Rubenhold

• Goldsboro Books’ Class of 2025: Sarah Pinborough, Beth Lewis, Steph McGovern and A A Dhand in conversation with David Headley

• Espionage for the Modern Reader: Ava Glass, Charles Cumming and Nick Harkaway & Vaseem Khan

• Tilda Key and Rosanna Forte, Publisher and Editorial Director at Sphere, give a whistlestop tour of commercial crime publishing

• The One You Least Suspect: Dilemmas and Decisions with David Goodman, S. M. Govett and Remi Kone & Brian McGilloway

• Crime to cool you down this summer: Will Dean, Heidi Amsinck, R. O. Thorp & Ed James

• What’s Going on in Oz? Chris Hammer, Hayley Scrivenor, Kate Kemp & Craig Sisterson 

• Deception in Crime Fiction - Mark Edwards, Nicci French, Erin Kelly & Claire McGowan 

• Found in Translation: Jón Atli Jónasson, Lex Noteboom, Johana Gustawsson and Thomas Enger & Quentin Bates

• Small Town Heroes’: Tariq Ashkanani, Anna Bailey, Chris Chibnall & Robert Rutherford

• ‘The One percent’: Our fascination with bad people doing horrible things with Belinda Bauer, Charlotte Philby, Charlotte Vassell & Holly Watt

• Making History Human with D V Bishop, Mel Pennant, S. J. Parris & Clare Whitfield

• Terror on and off the page: social injustices in horror and high concept thrillers:  Chris Carter, Erin E. Adams, Jessie Elland & Andrea Carter

• Masters of Mystery: a panel of crime writing experts Dr Duncan Harding (forensic psychologist), Graham Bartlett (police) & Nicola Williams (practising Judge)  in conversation with criminal defence lawyer Ruth Mancini 

• CRIME QUIZ hosted by A J West