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Friends of St Mary’s Church, Hull

6 pm Wednesday 10 June, 2026.

Alyce Chaucer and the de la Pole Hull connections.

Details TBA.

Gladstone Library Alibis in the Archive

6/7 June 2026.

Deadly Landscapes from Dartmoor to Cape Wrath.

I will be giving a talk on Deadly Landscapes from Dartmoor to Cape Wrath to celebrate my new book, Novel Crime Scenes.

The Alibis in the Archive weekend is an annual celebration of all things crime, held in the Gladstone Library, Hawarden, Flintshire. It is hosted in collaboration with the Crime Writers’ Association. Speakers in 2026 include SJ Bennett, Angela Buckley, Ajay Chowdhury, Martin Edwards, Christina Hardyment, Anthony Johnston, Phil Lecomber and Zoe Sharp.

Tickets £190

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Alyce Chaucer in Fact and Fiction

Alyce Chaucer’s tomb in Ewelme Church

7:30pm, 21 April, 2026.
Iffley History Society, Church Hall, Iffley.

Christina talks about her Alyce Chaucer mystery novels inspired by the tomb in Ewelme Church of the real-life granddaughter of Geoffrey Chaucer. She examines what little is known about the real Alyce, and reveals her taste in literature, architecture and tapestries.

Novel Crime Scenes Talk at Oxford Literary Festival

Wednesday, 25 March 2026.

Christina explores the landscapes of 20 crime novels and explains what the settings meant to authors such as Agatha Christie, John Buchan and Colin Dexter.

Hardyment ranges from the Devon moorland of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Hound of the Baskervilles to Buchan’s Galloway Hills, a Georgian House that inspired Agatha Christie’s Dead Man’s Folly, Dexter’s Oxford and London’s Brick Lane of Ajay Chowdhury’s The Waiter. Hardyment followed in the footsteps of Britain’s best-known crime writers to find out what exactly motivated them to choose these settings for tales of mystery and murder.

Weston Lecture Theatre: £10 – £18

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Friends of the Bodleian

13.00–14.00 25 February 2026.
 At the Weston Library and online.

Beginning with the Devon moorland of The Hound of the Baskervilles (1899) and ending with London’s Brick Lane as described in Ajay Chowdhury’s The Waiter (2021), Christina’s talk will range from John Buchan’s Galloway Hills and Gwen Moffat’s Cape Wrath to Ellis Peters’s Shropshire, Margery Allingham’s Essex, Colin Dexter’s Oxford and Sam Llewellyn’s Isles of Scilly. She will delve into the author’s background and discovers what the setting of the book meant to them, sometimes following in their footsteps. 

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Vintage lady

This summer I set sail on the Thames in my restored British Moth 404 Pheno. A little upstream I found the perfect mooring for my camping punt Dulcibella.