Announced tonight, the winners: ● The Best Actress Dagger Keeley Hawes, Line of Duty ● The Best Actor Dagger Matthew McConaughey, True Detective ● The Specsavers ITV3 Crime Thriller Book … Continue reading →
October 24, 2014
Announced today, the shortlists are: The CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year: o The First Rule of Survival by Paul Mendelson (Constable) o How the … Continue reading →
September 2, 2014
The shortlist for the Baileys Women’s Prize of Fiction 2014 was announced earlier this evening: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Americanah (Fourth Estate) Hannah Kent – Burial Rites (Picador) Jhumpa Lahiri … Continue reading →
April 7, 2014
The Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction has announced its longlist and the judges will now work on reducing this list to six for the shortlist, before choosing an overall winner … Continue reading →
March 7, 2014
The shortlist of eight books for the inaugural Folio Prize has been announced today. The prize is open to English language writers from all over the world and includes poetry, … Continue reading →
February 10, 2014
2013 Costa Novel Award Kate Atkinson for Life After Life (Doubleday) 2013 Costa First Novel Award Nathan Filer for The Shock of the Fall (HarperCollins) 2013 Costa Biography Award Lucy … Continue reading →
January 28, 2014
The Mystery Writers of America have announced the nominations for the 2014 Edgar Awards which you can see at this link. Or you can download the press release here (pdf … Continue reading →
The winners of the UK’s Specsavers National Book Awards 2013 have been announced and awarded tonight and are listed below. The public vote or the Specsavers National Book of the … Continue reading →
December 11, 2013
2013 Costa Novel Award shortlist Kate Atkinson for Life After Life (Doubleday) Bernardine Bishop for Unexpected Lessons in Love (John Murray) Maggie O’Farrell for Instructions for a Heatwave (Tinder Press) … Continue reading →
November 26, 2013
The shortlist for the UK’s most dreaded literary prize – the 21st annual award for the most embarrassing passage of sexual description in a novel – is now out and … Continue reading →
November 8, 2013
It's a crime! (Or a mystery...) 