CWA Margery Allingham Short Mystery Competition
The Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) is on the hunt to find the best unpublished short mystery story. Entries are being invited for the 2021 CWA Margery Allingham Short Story competition, with just weeks before deadline closes on 26 February for th...
The next meeting of the Metropolitan Police History Society
The next meeting of the Metropolitan Police History Society will take place on 10 April at the usual venue, the Union Jack club, Sandell Street, SE1 8UJ. Arrivals from 6pm with bar facilities available, meeting starts at 7pm. Guests of members are w...
Murder Will Out: Heffers Crime presents a day of Crime, Thriller and Mystery Fiction
On Saturday 8th June, fifteen hand-picked crime writers will descend upon Cambridge for a murderously good day of panel discussions, book signings - and answering those author questions you've been just dying to ask. This is Murder Will Out. Featurin...
How are Independent Publishers Shaking Up the Book Industry?
Byte the Book's last event of the year, sponsored by the Publishers Association, looks at the rise of independent publishers. Discussion: Independent publishers have been transforming the publishing industry in recent times, by winning prizes and se...
Kemptown Bookshop
Cathy Hayward of Kemptown Bookshop talks to Elly Griffiths Cathy Hayward is only the third owner of Kemptown Bookshop, Brighton’s oldest independent bookstore. She was a long-time fan of the shop, which has been on St George’s Road since 1976,...
Countdown to CWA Daggers
Just a few days are left to buy tickets to attend the annual Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Dagger Awards dubbed the ‘Oscars’ of the crime genre. Booking closes this Friday (10 June) for the 2022 awards dinner, which is hosted at the Leona...
CWA Dagger Awards Longlists Announced
The 2021 longlists for the prestigious CWA Dagger awards, which honour the very best in the crime writing genre, have been announced. The world-famous Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Daggers are the oldest awards in the genre, and have been synony...
WHSmith Cardiff: Leslie Scase and G B Williams
Rounding off the Saturdays in Crime Reading Month, WHSmiths in Cardiff will host another two Crime Cymru authors: Leslie Scase, whose first historical crime novel, Fortuna’s Deadly Shadow is just out, and G B Williams, author of the hard-boiled Loc...
Alibis in the Archive 2018
Friday 8 - Sunday 10 June 2018 Back by popular demand, Alibis in the Archive (in association with the Crime Writers’ Association and The Detection Club) returns for a second year to bring some of the UK’s best-loved crime writers to Gladstone's ...
Crime Writers in Residence – at home with Anne Coates
The CRA: Please tell us a little about yourself and the books you write. My work as a journalist and editor working on magazines and national newspapers as well as abridging books for Reader’s Digest has provided plenty of inspiration for my crime...
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