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LATEST NEWSThe 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. LATEST REVIEWSDrive DVD starring Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan and Albert Brooks Once upon a time, back in the good old, bad old days, I described James Sallis as 'an unsung hero of crime' in my column in the Independent on Sunday. Well, he's certainly not unsung these days, as his novel Drive is now a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE as they were described in my youth
We can all vividly remember the experience of reading crucial comics in our youth. To this day, I recall being so impatient to consume the bulky British shilling edition of Simon & Kirby's Race for the Moon #2 (which was the US comic in black and white, bulked out to 68 pages with other Harvey comics reprints such as Bob Powell's quirky Man in Black) that I couldn't resist avidly reading it walking beside a railway track next to the towering walls of Walton Jail in Liverpool. Whenever I return from London to the town of my youth, and take a nostalgic walk along that track (now covered with weeds and graffiti), I can never do so without remembering myself as a boy first encountering one of Simon & Kirby's greatest glories — well before I knew who the hell Simon & Kirby were. LATEST FEATURES
Stockholm Noir: Jens Lapidus talks To Barry Forshaw For We Love This book, Barry Forshaw talks to Jens Lapidus about his Stockholm Noir trilogy - the side-earner to his day profession as a criminal lawyer that has earnt him the respect of the greats
Quentin Bates On Iceland's Crimewriting Legacy, Part 1 It may be news to the post-Larsson generation, but Scandinavian crime fiction (or, more accurately, Nordic crime fiction) is nothing new. It's just a new phenomenon to English-language readers. Many of those who are hitting the bookshop shelves these days are established writers who have a strong record behind them already. A fine example is writer Jussi Adler-Olsen, who made his English-language debut only last year, but for years has been regularly selling books by the truckload in his native Denmark as well as to a great many discerning and demanding crime readers in Germany... LATEST INTERVIEWS
Generating Suspense: Nancy Bilyeau On The Crown When I came up with the idea for my first novel, I began with the time period: the reign of Henry VIII. I've always been fascinated with the Tudor age. I enjoy reading historical mysteries and thrillers, and wanted to try to write one myself...
William Landay On Defending Jacob DEFENDING JACOB takes up the question of the emerging science of "behavioral genetics", which suggests that physical factors — very specific genetic mutations or malfunctioning of the brain — may create a biological tendency toward violence. In the novel, the protagonist Andy Barber is haunted by the idea that he has passed a "murder gene" to his teenage son. Is it possible? |
