Dagger in the Library
Dagger in the Library The Dagger in the Library 2024 is closed. Thank you for voting! The Dagger in the Library is a prize for a body of work by an established writer of crime fiction or non-fiction who has long been popular with borrowers from...
Toni Mount : Author Talk & Book Launch
Join Toni Mount on 22nd May at Gravesend Library, Kent to launch the new murder mystery The Colour of Lies. Toni will be talking about her writing career, writing non-fiction history books,and medieval murder mysteries, the story so far in t...
CWA Daggers – Shortlists Announced
The Crime Writers’ Association announced the shortlists for this year’s Dagger awards for crime writing at an at an evening drinks reception held at Waterstones Piccadilly on Wednesday 26 July. The CWA Daggers, which are the probably the awards c...
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 ...
The Life of Crime, with Martin Edwards
Martin Edwards won the highest honour in UK crime writing, the CWA Diamond Dagger, for his outstanding contribution to the genre. He is President of the Detection Club, a former Chair of the CWA, consultant to the British Library’s Crime Classics a...
The CWA Presents: Walking Through a Crime Scene Part 2
Part 2 – 'Murder Under the Microscope' with Dr Jim Fraser Learn with the Crime Experts 20 May 7.30pm Tickets: http://bit.ly/MurderUnderMicroscope The minds behind February's Blending Fact and Fiction have put together a thrilling three-p...
Detective Novels and the First World War
8 March: History Seminar at University of Westminster In this talk Professor Jane Mattisson Ekstam of Østfold University College, Norway, discusses the relationship between detective novels and representation of the First World War. That war provid...
Toni Mount: Author Talk & Book Launch
Join Toni Mount on 1st June at Benson Library, Oxfordshire to launch the new murder mystery The Colour of Lies. Toni will be talking about her writing career, writing non-fiction history books,and medieval murder mysteries, the story so far in the S...
CWA Opens Membership to Self-Published Authors
For the first time in its 68-year history, the prestigious Crime Writers’ Association will allow self-published authors to join its ranks. The move comes after the CWA consulted its members, who voted with an 84% majority in favour to accept self-p...
Crime Writers in Residence – at home with Helen Sedgwick
The CRA: Please tell us a little about yourself and the books you write. I am a research physicist turned author and I live in the Scottish highlands. I’ve recently moved to crime writing after publishing two novels that could be called literary ...
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