Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 19th, 2010
Slightly belated from me, but the shortlist for the 2010 Ellis Peters Historical Crime Award was announced a few days ago. The £3,000 prize, organised by the Crime Writers’ Association and sponsored by the estate of Ellis Peters and publishers Headline and Little, Brown, awards the best historical crime novel (set in any period up [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 1st, 2010
With James Forrester’s Sacred Treason published on Thursday 5th August, Crime & Publishing has a copy of this Elizabethan historical thriller to be won [read a review of it here]. To enter, subscribe to Crime & Publishing, become a follower of the blog’s twitter page and retweet the following - Copy of James Forrester SACRED TREASON [...]
Posted in Karin Slaughter, Uncategorized on Jul 27th, 2010
With the 2010 Theakstons Harrogate Crime Writing Festival having just finished this past weekend, The Yorkshire Post has exclusive audio from some of the talks that happened over the four days. Follow the link here to listen to extracts from authors including Val McDermid, Joanne Harris and Karin Slaughter, amongst others. Hope that you enjoy.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 18th, 2010
Bloody computers. I had my review of Tess Gerritsen’s The Killing Place all but written a couple of weeks ago, only for my laptop [which, it has to be admitted, had been playing up for months] to stop working. At least now I know that backing up my files once a week isn’t enough [although [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 27th, 2010
John Drake’s latest novel, Skull and Bones, has just been published and his previous two novels in the series, Flint and Silver and Pieces of Eight have been re-published with brand new covers [which look great - the previous cover art kind of reminded me of a YA or Fantasy title]. I read, and enjoyed, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 21st, 2010
The Crime Writers’ Association have announced the shortlists for the International Dagger, the Non-Fiction Dagger, the Dagger in the Library, the Short Story Dagger and the Debut Dagger categories. The second set of CWA Daggers — the John Creasey (New Blood), Ian Fleming Steel and Gold Daggers — will be awarded at a televised ceremony [...]
Posted in Neil Gaiman, Uncategorized on May 6th, 2010
After a fiercely fought online contest, the ‘One Book, One Twitter’ campaign has a winner – Neil Gaiman’s American Gods. The aim is to get as many people around the world to read and talk about one book. I love American Gods [I even wrote about it during my Master's dissertation], and will definitely be dusting off [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 13th, 2010
When I decided to start a book review blog, I must admit that planning which books I would review first wasn’t considered for any particular length of time. Instead I picked, in theory randomly, from the tottering pile of novels pruned from my already overcrowded bookshelves. It was only as I reached the third book [...]
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