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 journalist specialising in the arts. She has contributed to a wide range of national and regional newspapers and magazines, writing extensively on film, theatre, literature and visual art. She is the arts correspondent for the Yorkshire Post and chairs events and debates for a number of literature and arts festivals around the North.