In Conversation: Richard Armitage & Denise Mina at Bloody Scotland 2025

The Open University in Scotland is delighted to support In Conversation: Richard Armitage & Denise Mina at Bloody Scotland 2025.

What more could you ask for? Two gifted writers, two entertaining raconteurs, and an hour to enjoy listening to them.

Actor and author Richard Armitage, the star of Spooks, The Hobbit Trilogy and Obsession, topped the bestseller chart with his sensational debut thriller Geneva and his new cold case novel, The Cut, has already earned rave reviews. 

Denise Mina has collected a shelf load of awards in a glittering career, including the McIlvanney Prize, CWA Daggers, and two Theakston’s Crime Novel of the Year awards. Her new novel, The Good Liar, is a chilling an highly intelligent thriller.

This event will be chaired by literary agent and OU Honorary Gradute, Jenny Brown.

Tickets are £12 (£11 concession), available from the Bloody Scotland website.

You can try Creative Writing course content for free, on the OU site OpenLearn, such as Start writing fiction. 

The OU offers modules in Creative Writing and Advanced Creative Writing, a BA (Honours) English Literature and Creative Writing, and an MA in Creative Writing.