Edinburgh Writers' Forum

December Meeting

(Tue 12 Dec: 7pm)

Edinburgh Writers' Forum are delighted to welcome the partnership Ambrose Parry as their guests for the December meeting. What a perfect way to end the year!

Ambrose Parry is a pseudonym for a collaboration between married couple Chris Brookmyre and Marisa Haetzman. Chris is the international bestselling and multi-award-winning author of over twenty novels including winners of both the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year and the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Novel of the Year. Dr Marisa Haetzman is a consultant anaesthetist of twenty years’ experience, whose research for her Masters in the History of Medicine uncovered the material upon which their novels are based. Their first three books The Way of All Flesh, The Art of Dying and A Corruption of Blood were all shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year. The Way of All Flesh is also being developed for television by Glasgow-based production company Blazing Griffin, with Haetzman and Brookmyre attached as writers.

During the first part of the session, Marisa Haetzman will discuss what inspired her to move from being a successful anaesthetist with no literary ambitions, to writing full time a few years later. Her collaboration with husband Chris Brookmyre under the name Ambrose Perry has created a new force in the world of historical crime.

Chris Brookmyre is playing quizmaster for 2023; the winning team will claim book knowledge glory and an Ambrose Parry book for each team member.