Literary

JFOW 25: Slow Horses To Clown Town – Mick Herron & Will Smith

Friday 26 September 2025
Freedom Centre

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SLOW HORSES TO CLOWN TOWN – MICK HERRON & WILL SMITH

FREEDOM CENTRE / FRIDAY 26 SEPTEMBER / 20.00-21.00

£18 (or £49 for pair of tickets + one hardback book - for this offer please email [email protected])

Mick Herron is the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Slough House thrillers, which have been published in over 25 languages and are the basis of the huge hit Apple TV+ drama thriller series Slow Horses, starring Gary Oldman as the irascible Jackson Lamb. Herron's awards include the Theakston Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year and the CWA Gold, Steel and Diamond Dagger. September sees the publication of Clown Town, the ninth book in Mick Herron’s #1 bestselling, critically acclaimed, 2.5 million+ copy selling series.

Mick will be joined by award-winning (multiple Emmys and Writer Guild Awards) Will Smith, who is the creator and showrunner of Slow Horses, as well as a stand-up comedian, screenwriter, novelist, actor and producer. He is known for being part of the writing team of the BBC sitcom The Thick of It and its HBO counterpart Veep. Additionally, he starred as Phil Smith in the former.

SPONSORED BY HIGHVERN 

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