BFC3 Alan Johnson

Join us for this special event with festival favourite, Alan Johnson in conversation with Festival Director John McLay. Alan’s latest novel Death on The Thames is the latest in his page turning murder mystery series featuring DCI Louise Mangan.    

A young Detective Constable Louise Mangan crosses the Thames one misty morning in pursuit of a killer. She finds a tranquil community on a leafy island close to Hampton Court Palace but soon realises that all is not as it seems.  Twenty years later, a horrific fire brings Detective Chief Superintendent Mangan back to that same island. Soon, she discovers that murder was just a drop in these dark waters. The river runs deep, and the tide is rising at last. Will the truth rise with it?

Alan Johnson, served as Labour MP for Hull West and Hessle from 1997 to 2017. His 2013 memoir This Boy won the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, and the Orwell Prize. The sequel, Please Mr Postman, was published in September 2014 and won the National Book Club award for Best Biography.  The final book in his trilogy, The Long and Winding Road, was published in September 2016 and won the Parliamentary Book Award for Best Memoir. Alan retired as an MP in 2017 after 20 years as an MP.