Grosvenor House, A JW Marriott Hotel, is delighted to announce that leading author Peter Robinson will be hosting the next Literati – The Grosvenor House Book Club – on Thursday 6th October, 2011. Presenting his new novel, Before the Poison, Peter Robinson, the number one bestselling author of the DCI Banks novels will discuss the inspiration and influences behind his intriguing crime thriller.

The event will take place from 6.30pm for a 7.00pm start, with tickets priced at £20 which includes a copy of the book, welcome drinks and canapés. To book a place please visit the Literati Book Club website, email mailto:literati@marriotthotels.com or call +44 (0) 207 499 6363.

Have you watched the two-part adaptation of Playing with Fire on ITV? Well, get ready for another Inspector Banks novel: Friend of the Devil. Again in two parts, it begins tonight on ITV 1, at 9 pm. Don’t miss another exciting DCI Banks series.

The second episode of DCI Banks: Playing with Fire airs tonight, in the UK, on ITV1. This exciting drama is based on the Inspector Banks novel of the same name. See this recent post for more on the DCI Banks series.

The next three DCI Banks TV adaptations are going to air starting Friday 16 September on ITV1. The series lasts for six weeks and comprises three Banks novels: Playing With Fire, Friend of the Devil and Cold is the Grave. Stephen Tompkinson stars as Alan Banks, and Andrea Lowe is Annie Cabbot.

In Playing with Fire, two bodies are found after a fire on some narrow boats and Banks and DS Annie Cabbot find themselves on the trail of an arsonist who has killed two people.

In Friend of the Devil, a young student is attacked in the middle of the city and in another part of Yorkshire a woman has her throat cut, but the two different murders have disturbing similarities.

Cold is the Grave is a case terrifyingly close to home as Banks is asked by his boss, Superintendant Gerry Rydell, to find his missing teenage daughter…

ITV’s web site has more about the series, with videos and interviews with cast members.

From Peter’s Canadian publisher, here’s a trailer for the latest book, Before the Poison.

Note: the date of this broadcast has been changed. We originally posted that it would be the 17th, then it was pushed back to the 18th, and now it’s scheduled for the 19th. Let’s hope this time it doesn’t change again.

Peter will be sitting down with the hosts of BBC Breakfast Television on 19 August, between 8:30 and 9:00 am, to discuss his latest novel, Before the Poison. The book is being released on the 18th, so if you can, listen to Peter talk about it, then get ready to visit your favorite bookstore to buy a copy the next day.

Don’t forget to check Peter’s book tour schedule to see if he’ll be visiting a bookstore near you, so you can meet him and get a signed copy of the book.