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Join No1 Royal Crescent for an in conversation talk with Amelia Blackwell, author of A Crime Through Time, and Joanna Nadin, author and former broadcast journalist and special adviser to the Prime Minister

Pemberley, 1799. When Miss Georgiana Darcy attempts to escape an unwanted marriage proposal, she isn't expecting to end up quite so far from home. But after encountering a mysterious object in the nearby woods, she finds herself transported almost two hundred years into the future. Saltram, 1995. At a grand country house where a film crew are busy shooting the latest Jane Austen adaptation, a terrible crime has been committed. And Miss Darcy – newly arrived, impeccably dressed and thoroughly confused – is the only witness. It soon becomes clear that, somehow, Georgiana was meant to solve this riddle. With the help of a distractingly handsome Irishman named Quinn and a border collie named Watson, she sets out to stop the killer before they can strike again. But meanwhile, trouble is brewing back at Pemberley and time, it seems, is not on her side . . .

Amelia Blackwell has a master's degree in Creative Writing, a corn snake called Colin, and a deep love of the works of Jane Austen. Although the Boleyns appear in her family tree, it's through marriage, not blood, which is probably just as well. Georgiana Darcy's most persistent suitor, Baron John de Halighwell, takes his name from one of Amelia's distant great-grandfathers, who lived in a mansion that even Lady Catherine de Bourgh would admire. Amelia lives with her husband and children in a tiny house by the sea in Cornwall.

Joanna Nadin is a former broadcast journalist and special adviser to the Prime Minister. Since leaving politics, she's written more than ninety books, including the Sunday Times bestselling series The Worst Class in the World and the Carnegie-nominated A Calamity of Mannerings, which was also a Times book of the week. An Austenite, her retelling of Sense and Sensibility has been translated into several languages, and she is currently working on a contemporary sequel to Pride and Prejudice. She is also a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Bristol, and lives here in Bath.

9th October 2025 at No.1 Royal Crescent

1800 – 1900 – In conversation talk with by Amelia Blackwell and Joanna Nadin with time for questions after

Tickets – £12.00 per person or £26.00 for the talk and a signed, hardback copy of A Crime Through Time (RRP £18.99)