The Crime Writers’ Association

Dagger in the Library 2021

Shortlisted


C L Taylor


CWA Featured Bookseller – Books on the Hill

Books On The Hill 1 Holywell Hill St Albans AL1 1ER www.books-on-the-hill.co.uk William Shaw speaks to owner Antonia Mason St Alban’s bookshop Books On The Hill is a shop that looks as if it’s been in its location on Holywell Hill a lon...


London Book Fair Author HQ Seminar Programme

Featuring authors, literary agents, and publishers, all gathered at the biggest publishing event in the UK, the programme is an invaluable opportunity for aspiring writers to learn how to get their work published. Keynote speakers include: internat...


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 ...


Crime Writers in Residence: at home with Holly Watt

The CRA: Please tell us a little about yourself and the books you write. My name is Holly Watt, and I write novels about a journalist called Casey Benedict who investigates stories that take her all over the world. The first one - To The Lions, whi...


Private: How To Increase Book Sales: 16 Ways

by Brian Feinblum of Media Connect   If you want to know how to go about getting a lot of book sales, all that you need to do is write a really good book, that’s better than others in your genre, on a topic that’s not over done or obscure,...


Crime Writers in Residence – at home with Maggie Hamand

The CRA: Please tell us a little about yourself and the books you write. I am a former journalist, a novelist and creative writing lecturer at the University of Hull. I studied biochemistry as a first degree and have a Masters in theology so science...


Local Blood: A Panel Discussion with local authors Michelle Birkby, Emma Curtis and Jess Kidd

Three local authors from Richmond upon Thames team up to talk about their latest novels and the process of writing. Birkby, Curtis and Kidd have each mined the dark seams of mystery and suspense and written tales that strike chords of unease amongst ...


Crime Writers in Residence – at home with Jem Tugwell

The CRA: Please tell us a little about yourself and the books you write. I’m a crime fiction author with a Crime Writing MA from City University. No Signal is the second book in the iMe series and follows my debut novel Proximity. In a past life,...


CWA Daggers – Shortlists Announced

The Crime Writers’ Association announced the shortlists for this year’s Dagger awards for crime writing at an at an evening drinks reception held at Waterstones Piccadilly on Wednesday 26 July. The CWA Daggers, which are the probably the awards c...


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