Farewell to Frederick Forsyth, pilot, spy, author, reporter & Chiltern Kills patron.

Frederick Forsyth opening Chiltern Kills, with festival organisers Aneysha Minocha, Paul Waters, Tony Kent & Victoria Christian. Plus Neil Child-Dyer of Centrepoint. We’ll miss Freddie’s humour & support this year, but we’ll be celebrating his life & work – plus his new book, The Revenge of Odessa, jointly written with Tony. (Meanwhile, if anyone has seen those golden scissors since Freddie snipped the tape, let us know. That mystery continues…)

Chiltern Kills is the single most intense one day of crime & thriller writing entertainment, with many of the biggest names in crime writing & celeb moderators, all together with @centrepointuk & The Big Issue to help homeless people.

Tickets are still only £40 (including booking fee) – with ALL proceeds to Centrepoint and The Big Issue. (Our costs are covered by our generous sponsors. All authors appear for free.) Or choose an enhanced special ticket which gets you a one-to-one face-to-face consultation with a top literary agent for £70.

NB: All tickets give all-day access to both stages, the signing bookshop, the bars, the food court & mingling areas, but each panel event is first-come-first-seated, & NOT everyone will fit into each panel. Both stages will be running panels at the same time, the bookshop will be hosting signings & crime authors will be pulling pints behind the bar – so plenty to enjoy.