The Crime Writers’ Association

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...


The Detective’s Journey by Luke Deckard

Joseph Campbell’s seminal book The Hero With A Thousand Faces explores the uncanny similarities between the world’s myths and religions and what they mean in a real-world context. Campbell’s book is rich in psychology and insight in...


Book launch: ‘The Sinner’ by Caroline England

Join Caroline England to celebrate her latest psychological suspense, the vicarage-based tingler The Sinner. Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future. Every confession has a price. Read more about Caroline's inspiration for The Sinner on ...


Ian Fleming Steel Dagger

Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Ian Fleming said there was one essential criterion for a good thriller, ‘one simply has to turn the pages’. Eligible books in this category are thrillers set in any period and include, but are not limited to, spy fiction...


Cake and Crime Evening with Cath Staincliffe

Wednesday 9th October- 6-7.30pm, Widnes Library Tickets Early bird £5 (book before 1st October) / Full price £7.50 (Cake included in ticket price) Book online via the library website or at any Halton Library Book lovers, thriller readers and an...


Fatal Hate book signing


The Entry Process

The Entry Process There are four kinds of Dagger, differentiated by how they are nominated. See below for an explanation of the different entry processes, and who may nominate for each Dagger. Please do not hesitate to contact the Dagger Liaison Or...


Chiswick Book Festival

Murder and Mayhem in Leafy Chiswick Saturday September 14th The Art of the Thriller Former soldier and diplomat Alan Judd and former BBC journalist Peter Hetherington discuss with Julian Worricker the art of writing gripping fiction. Crime and Suspen...


The Entry Process

The Entry Process There are four kinds of Dagger, differentiated by how they are nominated. See below for an explanation of the different entry processes, and who may nominate for each Dagger. Please do not hesitate to contact the Dagger Liaison Or...


Third time lucky with the Debut Dagger, by Anna Caig

I’ve wanted to write crime fiction ever since I read Death on the Nile as a teenager and was blown away that something so clever, so dazzling and brilliant, could even exist. But life takes over, doesn’t it. It was only in 2017, when I saved up e...


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