Private: CWA Dagger Shortlists Announced
The 2022 shortlists for the prestigious Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Dagger awards, which honour the very best in the crime-writing genre, have been announced. Created in 1955, the world-famous CWA Daggers are the oldest awards in the genre ...
Private: Top crime writers support Scotland on Sunday’s libraries campaign
Crime writers owe a lot to libraries. Library staff lend out their books, bringing in welcome payments under the Public Lending Right scheme, host their events and raise their profiles. Writers of all genres have much to be grateful to libraries for....
Emerging Authors
Emerging Authors Join the Crime Writers' Association as an Emerging Author - A new type of membership for tomorrow's writers. This category encourages new crime writers in their quest to become published authors by welcoming them into the com...
Norfolk & Norwich Festival – Jeffery Deaver – The Cutting Edge
Thursday 22 May, 7.30pm The Adnams Spiegeltent, Chapelfield Gardens £12 / concessions from £7.50 We welcome number-one Sunday Times bestselling author and master of suspense Jeffery Deaver to Norwich UNESCO City of Literature. The Cutting Edge s...
Crime Cymru at Newcastle Noir
Newcastle Noir presents: We’ll keep a welcome in the hillside. Of course, they will…and coming courtesy of the collective imaginations of this talented quartet it’s an invitation too good to refuse: GB Williams, Thorne Moore, Philip Rowlands an...
Alis Hawkins’ Indie Bookshop Tour: Bala
Alis Hawkins’ tour of indie bookshops continues at Awen Meirion in Bala, where she will be signing books and talking about the Teifi Valley Coroner, in Welsh and English. All welcome. Croeso i bawb! Harry Probert-Lloyd, a young barrister f...
Victoria Taylor – Haven
Welcome to Haven; a community of families living together in isolation from the outside world. No-one is allowed into this alternative life- except perhaps the occasional teenage girl to bring in a new bloodline for their sons. Becky, a private inves...
London Women’s Gliterary Lunch
Thursday 12 May, The Kingsway Hall Hotel, Covent Garden with authors Louise Doughty and Clare North A 'perfect balance of schmooze, booze and books', to quote Lionel Shriver. For those of you who still haven't experienced a Gliterary Lunch, thes...
April 2022: Torquay
April 2022: TorquayVenue: The Imperial Hotelby David Whittle I felt a sense of mildly suppressed excitement setting off for my first CWA Conference. It had been a long time coming, of course. I’d booked originally for 2020 and, like all of us, h...
Friends, Romans, Murderers with Jane Finnis
“Friends, Romans, Murderers…” Jane Finnis, who writes the Aurelia Marcella mysteries, talks about life (and death) in Roman Britain, and explores the pleasures and pitfalls of writing historical mysteries. Admission free: all welcome. Jane’...
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