Bookshop of the Month – November 2021: The Book Makers
Every month, as part of the new CWA Booksellers Champion initiative, we want to celebrate a bookshop because we believe bookshops don’t just sell our books – they bring our streets alive. This month, William Shaw talks about an unusual venture...
Capital Crime Book Festival
Come celebrate crime and thriller fiction in print and on film with some of today's biggest names, including Richard Osman. Author and criminal solicitor Nadine Matheson will moderate a panel on Moral Dilemmas in Modern Society. MW Craven will speak ...
Book Launch: Foul Play at the Seaview Hotel
Come celebrate the release of Foul Play at the Seaview Hotel, by Glenda Young! Could this be the first book launch in a funicular? Come find out! Admission is free. More information here....
Marketing your books
Marketing your Books The CWA’s mission is to promote the crime-writing genre, both fiction and non-fiction, and support our membership of professional authors. We offer our members a wide range of promotional outlets, and the help of our Bookselle...
UK Crime Book Club with Julie Anderson
Join Julie Anderson talking with Samantha Brownley about 'Oracle' the new Cassandra Fortune novel at the virtual UK Crime Book Club. Set near the ancient Temple of Apollo at Delphi on Mount Parnassus, Greece, the novel explores the idea of justice, ...
Dagger in the Library
Dagger in the Library 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 libraries. It also rewards authors who have supported libraries an...
Peter Tickler: Book Tour (3 Dates)
Peter Tickler mixes crime fiction with family history in The Tickler's jam Murders. Tickler's Jam was supplied to the British troops during the first world war. Soldiers sang songs about it. Cartoonists joked about it, and it became a household name...
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...
Book Launch: An Old Tin Can by Bryan Mason
Waterstones presents an evening with Bryan J Mason in conversation with Professor Leroy White, with readings, a Q&A, a glass of wine and mingling. Attendees will have the opportunity to buy Bryan's new novel, the first in a new black comedy serie...
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...
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