CWA Announce Longlists for Prestigious Crime Writing Daggers
The Crime Writers’ Association announced the much anticipated longlists for the annual CWA Dagger awards for the best of the year’s crime writing at a reception during international convention CrimeFest in Bristol on the evening of Friday 10 May....
Slaughter in Southwold Crime Writers Festival Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th June
2017 marks the fifth annual ‘Slaughter in Southwold’ festival featuring talks by a number of top crime writers as well as other crime themed activities. This year’s packed programme features Elly Griffiths, M.J. Arlidge, Isabelle Grey, Harry B...
The Big Read with Mari Hannah
Big Read Celebrates Ian Rankin in Landmark Year The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival is on tour this summer with its ninth Big Read, hosting free reading group events across Yorkshire. The 2017 Big Read is Ian Rankin’s breakthrough R...
2023 Dagger Award Winners Announced
2023 CWA Dagger Awards Announced The winners of the 2023 CWA Daggers, which honour the very best in the crime writing genre, have been announced. The prestigious Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Daggers are the oldest awards in the genre and ...
Daggers Announced Online in Daggers Live!
CWA Dagger Awards 2020 Winners Announced Michael Robotham, Lou Berney, Trevor Wood, Casey Cep, and Abir Mukherjee win 2020 CWA Dagger awards. The winners of the 2020 CWA Daggers, which honour the very best in the crime writing genre, were announced ...
COVID, Corruption and Crony Capitalism with Vicky Pryce, Dr Emily Barritt and Julie Anderson
Outraged at the accusation that the government gave out £17b in contracts to their friends, with 50% of the contracts still undeclared? Confused about the legality of it? Worried about its economic impact? Join our host Claret Press publisher Katie...
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...
Crime Writers Emerging from Lockdown with Louise Burfitt-Dons
How an escape story inspired The Secret War Some years ago when I was living in Australia I met someone whose family had escaped the Cultural Revolution. The planning required utmost secrecy for the father to organise their ‘trip to Hong Kong to...
Bookshop of the Month – August 2022: Imagined Things Bookshop
Georgia Eckert from Imagined Things Bookshop in conversation with William Shaw. In 2018, Imagined Things Bookshop, in Harrogate, became known as the bookshop that was saved by a tweet. On 25 June 2018, bookshop owner, Georgia Eckert, let the wor...
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