Chiltern Kills Crime-Writing Festival

18/11/2025

A new, very ‘Kent’ appropriate advert for Chiltern Kills

We love AI when it’s not nicking writing jobs!!!

18/11/2025

A new, very ‘Kent’ appropriate advert for ’

We love AI when it’s not nicking writing jobs!!!

11/11/2025

Another great local launch from a Chiltern Kills founder and organiser, this time from our own Paul Waters at the historic Milton's Cottage in where we celebrated the launch of his brilliant new Irish/Indian cosy from series!

has lit up the bestsellers chart both in the UK and India, and it’s just the first of a planned series covering every month of the year so expect to see next instalment very soon!!

A great night all round: thanks for having us Paul & Anyesha!

30/10/2025

Well how is this for timing!!!

A week after the launch of Revenge of Odessa - the long awaited sequel to The Odessa File which was co-written by our late, great festival patron Fredrick Forsyth and our co-founder Tony Kent - the ‘TV people’ announce a prestige, multi-season TV adaption of Freddie’s classic original.

If it’s half the show last year’s Day of the Jackal proved to be it’ll be unmissable. And in the meantime, it can’t hurt the sales of the new one!!

The late author and legendary former Express columnist's 1972 book about N***s, The Odessa File, is being remade for a new generation of fans as an 8-part drama

27/10/2025

Very exciting book pending from one of our absolutely favourite Chiltern Kills regulars, the incredibly prolific, incredibly entertaining writer Neil Lancaster, aka Max Connor.

Pre-order this book today: we guarantee you will be happy you did!!

27/10/2025

A big book announcement from one of our festival’s favourite authors and the King of the Karaoke After Party, Mark Edwards.

Follow Mark for more updates!!

Tomorrow I will be telling you everything you need to know about how to get your hands on a signed, dedicated and - yes - doodled copy of one of these: the hardback of The Christmas Magpie. Look how shiny and festive it is! Watch. This. Space!

UPDATE: You can now order your signed, dedicated and doodled copy. Available worldwide. https://www.bookabookshop.co.uk/shop/the-christas-magpie-signed-and-dedicated-copy/

27/10/2025

Last week - on Friday - we posted a photo of the brilliant article Matt Nixson at the Daily Express had written about our late, great festival patron Frederick Forsyth and our festival co-founder Tony Kent, and how they had worked together to develop and write the newly released sequel to Freddie’s 1970’s classic The Odessa File: Revenge of Odessa.

Today we’re posting the link to the article itself, which we suspect is much easier to read this way!!

Revenge of Odessa is out now in hardback at all good bookshops & supermarkets and available online in hardback, ebook and audible.

As a sequel to The Odessa File is published, Tony Kent reveals why the legendary Express columnist was like Frank Sinatra, the gripping story they created... and why he'd have worked for free

27/10/2025

On Saturday the Daily Express published a world exclusive first extract from , the thriller co-written by our late, great festival patron Frederick Forsyth and our co-founder Tony Kent, which was released in the UK last Thursday.

Click the link below to read it for yourself!

Opening with a horrifying terror attack and a young journalist mistaken for his dead father, the long-awaited sequel to former Express legend Freddie Forsyth's 1972 blockbuster The Odessa File is every bit as dramatic as you'd expect... read on for our exclusive extract

24/10/2025

Absolutely belting article in today’s Daily Express all about our late, great festival patron Frederick Forsyth, our co-founder Tony Kent and how they came to co-write , the sequel to Freddie’s classic The Odessa File which is in all good bookshops and most of the supermarkets now!

It’s well worth a read!! As is tomorrow’s edition in which The Daily Express will be running a world exclusive extract from Revenge of Odessa!

23/10/2025

It’s finally here!!!

After months of threatening and reminding, we’re delighted to say that - the sequel to this our late, great festival patron Frederick Forsyth’s classic and co-written by Freddie and our co-founder Tony Kent last year - is out TODAY!!

We could not be more proud of it.

Available in Hardback, ebook and Audible NOW!!

21/10/2025

Don’t miss the brilliant documentary on our late, great festival patron Frederick Forsyth - “In His Own Words” - which was filmed shortly before he passed away earlier this year by ⁦‪Orchard Studios

It’s on BBC One tonight at 22.40 or available now on ⁦‪BBC iPlayer‬⁩ via the link below

In this intimate, candid and compelling documentary, legendary British thriller writer Frederick Forsyth tells his extraordinary life story in his own words.

16/10/2025

One week to go…

One week to pre-order…

One week to get ahead of the rush!!

Revenge of Odessa by Frederick Forsyth and Tony Kent.