Bee Rowlatt: One Woman Crime Wave

Bee Rowlatt is the author of the award-winning travelogue In Search of Mary (2015, Alma Books); co-author of the bestselling Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad (2010, Penguin) which was dramatised by the BBC, and contributor to Virago’s Fifty Shades of Feminism. Bee led the campaign for the Mary Wollstonecraft memorial – the most trolled artwork in living memory – and is a founding Trustee of the human rights education charity the Wollstonecraft Society. She wrote the play An Amazon Step’t Out for its launch at the Lyric Theatre in London’s West End. Bee programmes events at the British Library; has chaired writers all over the world, and has written for the BBC, Telegraph, Times, Grazia, Die Welt, Guardian and Daily Mail. She lives in London but hails from Yorkshire. One-Woman Crime Wave (2024, Renard Press) is her first foray into fiction.

Yvette Huddleston is a freelance arts journalist and arts correspondent for the Yorkshire Post. She writes on film, theatre, literature and visual art for national and regional publications. She also chairs events and debates at literature and arts festivals across the North, contributes to BBC local radio discussions on regional arts, and has appeared as a guest critic on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row.