Nicola Sturgeon in Harrogate today
The Scottish leader is to take part in the festival on Sunday morning when she be interviews her good friend and crime-writing luminary, Val McDermid in person at the Old Swan Hotel.
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Hide AdStaged by Harrogate International Festivals, approximately 16,000 tickets have been sold for the four-day extravaganza, with lovers of the genre coming from as far as New Zealand and Australia to attend a series of talks, workshops, dinners and an opening night awards ceremony which took place last night.
Score of authors from around the world will be taking part in the festival – the seventeenth - which kicks off with a day-long writing workshop, “Creative Thursday”, and concludes with Bodyguard writer and Line of Duty creator, Jed Mercurio, in conversation with BBC Breakfast presenter Steph McGovern.