15:30 on Thursday 23 October at the Electric Theatre in Guildford.
£6, £5 for friends of the GBF

Christie will be at the Guildford Book Festival talking about 'How to Get into Character' and how her 14 years as a theatre director now help her in writing vivid characters.
She will be sharing the stage with a Viking in full gear (aka fellow writer Robert Low) and may spring a few costume surprises herself.

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The new 'Extras' page is where you'll find links to interesting articles elsewhere on the internet, special files on related subjects, interviews, personnal diary entries from Christie, and other little extras.

The first new entries include an audio recording of Christie talking about her poetry, an interview and suggested reading group questions for The Firemaster's Mistress.

On Sunday, 18th May, 2008, Christie will present an episode of 'Something Understood' in which she talks about 'The Animal Inside' - the role of animals in our minds and imaginations. Broadcast will be on Radio 4 at 6:05 am or 11:30 pm. The programme can also be heard at any time during the following week by going to the 'Listen Again' facility on the BBC website.

In April, Christie signed a contract for two books with her publisher HarperCollins. She is already working on the first one, about a character she fell in love with during research for THE FIREMASTER'S MISTRESS but could not fit in - Elizabeth Stuart, the oldest daughter of King James I and VI. Though not well known, she was the vital link between past kings and the present English Royal Family... Watch this space.

THE FIREMASTER'S MISTRESS has recently been published in Australia, to be followed in autumn 2008 by publication in the the United States.