Bestselling crime writers Olivier Norek (The Lost and the Damned, Turf Wars, Breaking Point) and Abir Mukherjee (the Wyndham & Banerjee series) were at the French Institute for a conversation on the crime novel as a way of making sense of the world, each drawing on their latest novel: Norek’s The Winter Warriors and Mukherjee’s The Pinnacle. From the French banlieues to colonial India, their fiction explores questions of justice, social divides and the ways history and lived experience shape storytelling. Conversation chaired by Nick Caistor, acclaimed translator of Norek’s Les Guerriers de l’hiver (The Winter Warriors).
Readings by actor Theo Douchand-Poynder.