Wales’ first international crime festival – Crime Cymru
Wales’s very first international crime fiction festival, Gŵyl CRIME CYMRU Festival, kicks off in Aberystwyth in 2022 with its own brand of international murder and mystery. Until then, Crime Cymru, the Welsh crime writing collective behind the fe...
Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin Named New SOA Chair
Congratulations to Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin, who has been elected new Chair of the Society of Authors. The novelist and founder of writing.ie takes over from Joanne Harris to begin two-year term as Chair of the SoA’s board of directors Vanessa Fo...
Crime Writers in Residence – at home with Anne Coates
The CRA: Please tell us a little about yourself and the books you write. My work as a journalist and editor working on magazines and national newspapers as well as abridging books for Reader’s Digest has provided plenty of inspiration for my crime...
Dagger Shortlists Announced
A debut novel is up against one of Britain’s biggest and most celebrated authors for the crime novel of the year. The 2021 shortlists for the prestigious CWA Dagger awards, which honour the very best in the crime writing genre, have been announced....
Bloody Scotland 2023
This annual festival of crime writing in historic Stirling features events aimed at readers and writers alike. Learn about the latest developments in your favorite crime genres, including thrillers, cosies, and Scandinavian noir. Hear about what’s ...
Twisted Dagger
Twisted Dagger The Twisted Dagger celebrates psychological thrillers, dark and twisty tales that often feature unreliable narrators, disturbed emotions, a healthy dose of moral ambiguity, and a sting in the tail. Books in this category include psych...
CWA Conference York 2023
An Overview by Matthew Booth The old adage says that time flies when you’re having fun and, like many old sayings, it is true. And that probably explains why this year’s conference, held primarily in the Park Inn by Radisson in York, seemed to f...
Crime Writers in Residence – at home with Katherine Stansfield
The CRA: Please tell us a little about yourself and the books you write. I’m originally from Cornwall and now live in Cardiff. Cornwall inspires much of my writing – I’m a bit obsessed with its history and folk tales. I write the historical cr...
Kate Ellis talks about third book in her Albert Lincoln trilogy
Former Dagger in the Library winner Kate Ellis is being interviewed online by UK Crime Book Club on Tuesday 18 May at 7pm. She'll be talking about The House of the Hanged Woman, the third in the Albert Lincoln trilogy set in the aftermath of World W...
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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