Join Bert’s Books for an in-conversation event with multi-million bestseller Val McDermid to celebrate the release of Silent Bones – her latest Karen Pirie thriller.
Val will be talking about her writing career from her debut in 1987 right up to the modern day – as well as answering your questions. Val will be signing books after the show and you’ll be able to get your hands on a copy of Silent Bones before anyone else!
About Val
One of the UK’s most accomplished and respected novelists, number one bestseller Val McDermid has sold over 19 million books to date across the globe and her work has been translated into more than 40 languages. She has written five series of crime novels as well as several award-winning standalone novels, books of non-fiction, short story collections and a children’s picture book, My Granny is a Pirate. Her new Karen Pirie novel, Silent Bones, publishes in October 2025. She is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Edinburgh and has been a judge for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize, as well as chairing the Wellcome Book Prize in 2017. She is also the recipient of seven honorary doctorates, is an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford and a Professor at the University of Otago in New Zealand.
