Paula Hawkins: The Blue Hour

Name: Paula Hawkins: The Blue Hour
Start: 2025-10-24T17:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-10-24T18:30:00+01:00
Location: University of East Anglia (UEA), Lecture Theatre 1

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Fri 24 Oct

6.30pm - 7.30pm : University of East Anglia (UEA), Lecture Theatre 1

Crime Fiction

University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ

Global bestseller Paula Hawkins comes to Norwich for a special UEA Live x NBF event.

Known for her psychological thrillers, including The Girl on the Train, Paula’s latest book transports us to a remote Scottish island, with just one lonely inhabitant. Grace is happy in her precious isolation, cut off from the world by twelve-hour tides, until a human bone is discovered where no human bone should be. Suddenly, the island is a very dangerous place to be alone.

In this event hosted by UEA tutor and crime writer Elspeth Latimer, Paula will reveal the secrets to writing powerfully tense novels, balancing plot and character, and share her journey to becoming a bestselling novelist.

Don’t miss your chance to see this world-renowned author.

This event is followed by book sales and signing with Waterstones.

Tickets: £15 (Adult), £5 (Student)

"Paula's very best book. An utterly compelling exploration of loneliness, obsession and jealousy, and a bloody good read. Could not put it down."

Liz Nugent

Paula Hawkins

Paula Hawkins worked as a journalist for fifteen years before writing her first novel. Born and brought up in Zimbabwe, she moved to London in 1989. Her first thriller The Girl on the Train became a global phenomenon, selling over 23 million copies. Published in over fifty languages, it was a No.1 bestseller around the world and a box-office-hit film starring Emily Blunt. Paula's subsequent thrillers have all been instant Sunday Times bestsellers. In 2021 A SlowFire Burning was nominated for Thriller of the Year at the British Book Awards, and in 2025 The Blue Hour was voted the Good Housekeeping Good Books winner.

Elspeth Latimer

Dr Elspeth Latimer is an author, researcher and creative writing tutor. Her debut crime novel The Lost Detective, set in Norfolk, is published by Story Machine and was shortlisted for the Bath Novel Award. She has also written a theory and practice guide to crime fiction series, Writing the Detectives (Cambridge University Press).