Friday
Rhys Dylan - Why doctors write crime fiction
Description
Rhys Dylan was born and grew up in west Wales, went away to university in London and trained as a doctor and he came back to live and work in his country of birth. Along the way he indulged his imagination by writing books for children and adults under various pennames and in a variety of genres.
Having spent his time career as a doctor, Dylan now focuses on crime fiction, which he'd argue, requires much the same skills: close observation, pattern recognition, and a high tolerance for things going badly wrong.
After publishing some novels for adults under his own name, two of which became BBC films, he dabbled in children’s books and contemporary fantasy before eventually settling back into crime once retirement from the day job allowed. His first novel as Rhys Dylan, The Engine House, appeared in 2022 and introduced DCI Evan Warlow: a retired detective dragged back to work when a landslip on the Pembrokeshire coast uncovers two bodies missing for eight years. Warlow has not been allowed to retire since. The series now runs to twenty books, published under his own imprint, Wyrmwood Books, and has made him an Amazon bestseller in four countries.
He writes the kind of crime fiction that is set somewhere real, features people you might actually meet, and takes the landscape as seriously as the corpse. Wales, in other words.
Venue
The Big Marquee
Time
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Ticket Price
£7 (free to patrons)