The Crime Writers' Association

ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction

This award is for any non-fiction work on a crime related theme by an author of any nationality as long as the book was first published in the UK in English during the Judging Period. This award encompasses, though is not limited to, non-fiction works relating to true crime, historical crime, crime-related biography, crime-fiction literature and critical studies.

The winner of the Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction will be announced at the glamorous CWA Dagger Awards Gala Dinner at the Leonardo Royal Hotel London City on 24 October 2019. To book your place at the premiere crime writing awards ceremony of the year, fill in the booking form here. Hurry! The tickets are selling like hot cakes.

Shortlist

The judges

Philip Gooden (Chair)

Philip  writes both fiction and non-fiction. His historical novels include the Nick Revill series, set in Elizabethan London, and a Victorian sequence, the most recent title for which is The Durham Deception. Philip Gooden also writes books on language, including Who’s Whose? and Faux Pas?, which won the English Speaking Union award for the best English Language book of 2006. He was Chair of the Crime Writers’ Association in 2007-8

Jasmine Simenon

Jasmine as been first, Bulletin Editor, and then also Secretary of the Dorothy L Sayers Society, starting in 1995. I also answer as many as possible of the questions which come in to the info@sayers.org.uk address, which has taught me a pretty good knowledge of Sayers and her works. I am also a member of the Margery Allingham Society, and a devotee of Golden Age detective fiction, but with fairly wide-ranging literary tastes.

Carol Anne Davis

Carol Anne Davis is the author of seven true crime books, the latest of which is Parents Who Kill. She has also authored seven novels, the latest being the kindle-only Near Death Experience. She regularly contributes in-depth features to Serial Killer Quarterly and is a judge for the CWA’s non-fiction dagger. Her website can be found at www.carolannedavis.co.uk

Kate Godsmark

After a false start in academic publishing, Kate moved to Piatkus, initially as a Subsidiary and International Rights Manager; she was then fortunate enough to enable to indulge her lifelong passion for crime writing on a daily basis when she became Commissioning Editor for crime. In recent years she has worked as a freelance editor.

2019 Longlist

Author Title Publisher
Sue Black All That Remains Transworld – Doubleday
Mikita Brottman An Unexplained Death Canongate
Rachael Brown Trace Scribe UK
Claire Harman Murder by the Book Viking
Kirk Johnson The Feather Thief Hutchinson
Helena Kennedy Eve Was Shamed Chatto & Windus
Sarah Langford In Your Defence Transworld – Doubleday
Ben Macintyre The Spy and the Traitor Viking
Hallie Rubenhold The Five Transworld – Doubleday
David Wilson My Life with Murderers Little, Brown – Sphere

SUBMISSIONS FOR APRIL 01, 2019 TO MARCH 31, 2020

Author Title Publisher
Mitchell S. Jackson Survival Math Dialogue Books
Sean O’Connor The Fatal Passion of Alma Rattenbury Simon & Schuster
Michael Gillard Legacy: Gangsters, Corruption and the London Olympics Caravel / Bloomsbury Publishing
Adam Sisman The Professor and the Parson: A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking Profile Books
Barry Forshaw Crime Fiction: A Reader’s Guide Oldcastle Books
Catherine Czerkawska A Proper Person to be Detained Contraband
Jeff Sparrow Fascists Amongst Us Scribe UK
Tom Wright & Bradley Hope Billion Dollar Whale Scribe UK
Rchael Louise Snyder No Visible Bruises Scribe UK
Mark Bowden The Last Stone Grove Press- Atlantic Books
Michael Matthews American Ruin Silvertail Books

Current holder

Blood on the Page
Thomas Harding

Gripping account of the recent and baffling murder of a Hampstead eccentric, and of the subsequent trial in which parts of the evidence were suppressed by government order.

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