National Crime Reading Month 2018 Underway
National Crime Reading Month, an initiative promoted by the CWA, is now underway, with libraries, bookshops and writing festivals throughout the country hosting events and talks this month with authors speaking about their books and the world of crim...
Lee Child – Landmark & Legacy
To celebrate the deposit of Lee Child's Archive at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and twenty-five years since the publication of the first Jack Reacher novel, we are hosting two landmark events to explore Child's legacy and the evolution of the ...
Buxton International Festival – Sarah Ward & Friends
Sarah Ward and Friends, with Elly Griffiths and William Shaw Sarah Ward is a Derbyshire-based crime writer whose detective DC Connie Childs solves crimes within the Peak National Park. Why are the best crime novels reliant on a defined sense of plac...
Essex Book Festival’s Golden Age of Crime
CWA members Helen Barrell, Simon Brett and Isabelle Grey are hosting various events within the Essex Book Festival's homage to Golden Age crime writing - and crime writing today! Join Essex Book Festival for a weekend of sleuthing in Southend-on-...
The secrets of successful Crime Writing with internationally acclaimed Crime Author
Pauline Rowson is the author of twenty crime novels set against the backdrop of the sea on the South Coast of England. Fourteen of these feature the popular rugged and flawed Portsmouth copper, Inspector Andy Horton. Her new 1950 set crime novel, DE...
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Crime at Hertfordshire LitFest
Crime events James Runcie: Sidney Chambers and the dangers of temptation Come and find out what Sidney Chambers is up to in the new Grantchester novel (as seen on TV) and discover our stunning new library at Hemel Hempstead Wednesday 19th April, 7...
Crime Publishers & Writers at Event in Chorley, Lancashire
Publishers Sapere Books and Gritstone Publishing Co-operative as well as crime writers Simon Michael, D J Harrison and Ruth Sutton will be highlighting the different ways of getting published. Writers, whether beginners or more experienced, are wel...
ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction
ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction This Dagger 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. The Dagger encompasses, tho...
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