Dagger Shortlists Announced
A debut novel is up against one of Britain’s biggest and most celebrated authors for the crime novel of the year. The 2021 shortlists for the prestigious CWA Dagger awards, which honour the very best in the crime writing genre, have been announced....
Crime Writers in Residence – at home with SM Hardy
The CRA: Please tell us a little about yourself and the books you write. I live in Torquay with my husband and spent twenty-eight years working for a major bank. After taking voluntary redundancy in 2001 I spent another fourteen or so years working ...
Films Preserved and Restored: Friday 10 August to Sunday 12 August 2018
This is a residential weekend course organised by the Cosmopolitan Film Club (non-profit) which is running at Chester University Campus on Films Preserved and Restored (i.e. vintage movies which have been improved by new technology). Amongst the eig...
Kate Ellis talks about her latest books at Arnold & Newark Libraries, Notts
On 7 March author Kate Ellis will be speaking at Arnold Library, Nottingham at 10.30pm and at Newark Library at 4pm. Popular author, and CWA Dagger in the Library shortlister for 2017, Kate will be talking about her work in general and reading from ...
Robert Richardson R.I.P.
The CWA announces with great sadness the death of author Robert Richardson, one of the most popular and respected figures in the CWA over recent decades. Uniquely, Robert served two distinct terms as Chair of the CWA; in 1993-1994 and 2006-2007, and ...
CWA welcome pack
CWA welcome packNew members are sent a welcome pack PDF when they join the CWA, to outline the benefits of membership and act as a handy guide to our activities and contacts. We invite all members, from recent to longstanding, to download the PDF ...
Thame Arts and Literature Festival: Alan Johnson in conversation with CWA member Dave Sivers
Alan Johnson’s childhood memoir This Boy was published in 2013. It won the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, and the Orwell Prize, Britain’s top political writing award. His second volume of memoirs Please Mr Postman (2014) won the Nati...
Entries for this year’s CWA Dagger Awards
The Crime Writers’ Association Daggers have been synonymous with quality crime writing for almost sixty years. Every year publishers put forward books for The Daggers, but until now the full list of titles submitted has not been revealed. The CWA h...
Caroline England Author Visit
Caroline England is a former divorce lawyer based in Manchester. Beneath the Skin, her debut novel, was published by Avon HarperCollins in October 2017. Her second book, My Husband’s Lies, was released in May 2018 and became a top ten kindle bestse...
Sister Sleuths
Come along to this online talk in which Julie Anderson,Alice Castle and Anne Coates discuss personal, political and psychological themes in their books. Is 2023 the year of the female detective? How do you solve a murder while organizing child...
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