Nordic Noir News

The Nordic Noir book Club has announced the following exciting events, taking place later this month. Borgen Briefing Saturday 18 February: A meeting with one of BBC4's 'Borgen' directors, Annette K. Olesen, and Danish experts from UCL, to discuss the nations' new favourite Scandinavian drama. The event is organised by UCL Nordic film specialist Claire Thomson...

Crime Fiction Rules At Libraries

PLR figures have revealed that crime fiction entries (including many novels by American authors) constitute every entry of the top 10 most borrowed titles from UK libraries between July 2010 and June 2011. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

(published by Transworld) is the single most borrowed book, boasting 78,342 loans. Thriller Titan James Patterson has bagged five of the top slots and remains the single most borrowed author in Britain's library service.