Wednesday 9 November 2011 Portsmouth Bookfest A sensory ride through Elizabethan England. Tuesday 11 October 2011 Cheltenham Literary Festival A sensory ride through Elizabethan England. Saturday 23 July 2011 Crime Writers Association, Harrogate Talking about my work at the CWA dinner. Friday 15 July 2011 Watermill Book Club, Newbury A sensory ride through Elizabethan England. Thursday, 26 May 2011 Kingston Readers Festival Talking about Sacred Treason and how I came to write the book. Wednesday 29 September 2010 Appledore Books Festival 'Interviewing Myself': as James Forrester, novelist, I interviewed myself as Ian Mortimer about the limits of writing history; and as Ian Mortimer, historian, I interviewed myself as James Forrester about the limits of historical fiction. Sunday 19 September 2010 Reading Festival of Crime 'Digging up the past: historical crime'. Panel event with Barbara Cleverly, Susanna Gregory, Bernard Knight and Andrew Taylor Thursday 16 September 2010 Waterstones, High Street, Exeter A short talk and signing session to launch Sacred Treason.