Death in Paradise
With Robert Thorogood £8 (conc £7 / students £6) Book online https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/spektrix/event-detail/?WebEventId=paradise-noir18 or call 01603 877177 BBC One’s Death in Paradise – the award-winning drama set on an idyl...
Who Wunnit? CWA Dagger winners announced
Some two hundred agents, publishers and authors were present at the glamourous awards dinner at Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, to find out the winners of the 2014 CWA Daggers. Alison Joseph, Chair of the CWA said: “Our Daggers Awards dinner is a...
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 ...
Brian Innes Remembered
We were sad to learn of the recent passing of Brian Innes who had been a member (and a force to be reckoned with in the CWA) for over twenty years. From The Guardian: “Part offshoot of the trad jazz movement and part offspring of the British su...
Jacquie Rogers – Roman historical crime
An evening with author Helen Barrell: a talk on 19th century forensic scientist Alfred Swaine Taylor
To coincide with Lacy Scott & Knight’s auction of professional and personal effects belonging to ‘Father of British Forensic Science’ Professor Alfred Swaine Taylor (1806-1880) - eminent toxicologist, pioneer photographer, and expert witnes...
Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Ian Fleming said there was one essential criterion for a good thriller, ‘one simply has to turn the pages’. Eligible books in this category are thrillers set in any period and include, but are not limited to, spy fiction...
Dagger in the Library
The Dagger in the Library is one of six highly prized CWA Dagger Awards, which have been awarded to crime writers since 1955. It is a unique literary award in that it offers a chance for readers to nominate their favourite British crime fiction autho...
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Alibis in the Archive
The world-renowned Gladstone Library on the North Wales/Cheshire border is to host a splendid feast of juicy crime writing dishes: Alibis in the Archive. The programme runs from the evening of Friday 9 June to Sunday 11 June 2017 and kicks off with ...
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