Writer and broadcaster Simon Mayo MBE visits UEA in March for an in-conversation about his latest novel Black Tag.

His previous books include the Sunday Times bestseller Knife Edge, and Times Thriller of the Year Tick Tock. His Itch trilogy was adapted into a television series in 2020. Known for hosting Top of the Pops, Simon now hosts ‘Drivetime’ on Greatest Hits Radio and ‘The Take’, a film-review podcast with Professor Mark Kermode.

This event will be followed by a book signing.

Black Tag synopsis:

When the West End Gallery in London’s fashionable Coal Drops Yard is set alight, the fire service must use the list of paintings lodged with it – a grab list – to snatch the key pieces of art from the flames.

But something has been altered. It’s the wrong list.

Then the ashes reveal another tragedy: an unidentified dead body. Someone who shouldn’t have been in the gallery. Crusading journalist Famie Madden wants to know who it is and why they were there. Soon it becomes apparent that the ashes are hiding much more than they should be – and that this is much more than a casual act of arson…

Bestselling author and legendary broadcaster Simon Mayo has created a spellbinding contemporary thriller. He weaves a story ripped from today’s newspapers that will take Famie far from the pages of her website into a murderous family saga stretching back over centuries.