
Overview
Granite Noir 2025: Reclaiming the Narrative with Nilesha Chauvet & Harriet Tyce
Chaired by Fiona Stalker
In a suspenseful debut novel, The Revenge of Rita Marsh, writer and charity campaigner Nilesha Chauvet exposes the horrific world of online predators and the thin line between good and evil. Sunday Times-bestseller Harriet Tyce brings together three strangers each craving a fresh start in explosive new thriller A Lesson in Cruelty, but is the true price of the life they desire really worth it?
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This event is part of the multibuy discount
Price
£12
This event will be BSL interpreted.
About the Speakers
Nilesha Chauvet
Nilesha Chauvet is a British Indian debut novelist writing zeitgeist psychological suspense, crime, and thriller. She is also the Managing Director of GOOD, which advises commercial brands on purpose, and helps charities raise millions of pounds for good causes. A graduate of Faber Academy, Nilesha has also studied creative writing at Curtis Brown Creative and City Lit. She read Philosophy & Theology at Oxford and was ordained an Interfaith Minister. Her debut novel, The Revenge of Rita Marsh, was awarded a prestigious London Writers Award by Spread the Word in 2021 and was a finalist in the Spotlight First Novel Award in the same year.
Harriet Tyce
Harriet Tyce was born and grew up in Edinburgh. She graduated in 1994 with a degree in English Literature before working as a criminal barrister for nearly a decade.
Having escaped law and early motherhood, she started writing, and completed the MA in Creative Writing – Crime Fiction at the University of East Anglia. She has written three novels to date, the Sunday Times bestsellers Blood Orange and The Lies You Told. It Ends At Midnight was published in April 2022 to critical acclaim.
She lives in north London with her husband and children, and two very nice dogs.
Fiona Stalker
Fiona Stalker is a Senior Presenter and Reporter at BBC Scotland. She presents programme across TV & radio including Drivetime and The Sunday Show on BBC Radio Scotland and Seven Days on the BBC Scotland channel . She previously worked for Reuters as Scotland Correspondent, lectured in journalism, and managed her own media training company.
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