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LATEST NEWSForshaw First Out Of The Gate With Stieg Larsson Bio A host of books on the late Stieg Larsson are being written — or have been written — but Barry Forshaw's The Man Who Left Too Soon: The Biography of Stieg Larsson — will be first out of the gate in the UK, published in April by John Blake New Website To Celebrate Crime Writing Week The Crime Writers' Association (CWA) has created a new website to promote National Crime Fiction Week. A nationwide celebration of crime writing, National Crime Fiction Week will run from Monday June 14, for one week. Members of the CWA will take part in readings, discussions, readers' group events and workshops all over the country, including in many libraries. The website, on www.crimefictionweek.co.uk, will provide information, events listings, contacts and posters for download LATEST REVIEWSGive 'em Hell Malone Russell Mulcahy, Director Can one have one's cake and eat it? Director Russell Mulcahy thinks you can. His frenetic, hyper-violent period action movie, Give 'Em Hell Malone, functions both as an over-the-top 1940s style private eye movie (complete with treacherous femme fatale) and as a wicked parody of the genre... A Game Of Sorrows Shona Maclean The Game of Sorrows makes stimulating company for a trip to 17th-century Carrickfergus. The Celtic atmosphere has striking pungency, and Seaton is a nicely idiosyncratic protagonist. His sometimes anachronistic 20th-century mindset is balanced against the prejudices of his time – he is prone to judge people by their religion, rather as Umberto Eco gave his otherwise modern-minded sleuth in The Name of the Rose some negative medieval views on women. Although the brio of the earlier book is more fitfully evident here, MacLean once again demonstrates that she is a distinctive talent... Barry Forshaw in The Independent |
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LATEST FEATURES
Consider Me A Co-conspirator Last June, I was contacted by British editor and former bookstore proprietor Maxim Jakubowski. He said he'd been approached by a London publishing house, asking if he would put together "a travel/reference book" that looked at 20 cities or places around the world through the eyes of the detective novelists most closely associated with them. Jakuboswki was recruiting writers to take on the 20 essays, and he asked me to participate in the project... J. Kingston Pierce in The Rap Sheet
Maxcrime: The Countdown One of the most respected of writer/editors in the UK crime fiction field is launching a new imprint: MaxCrime, with stellar entries from Tara Moss, Mike Hodges and Barbara Baraldi... the countdown has started.... LATEST INTERVIEWS
Two Tribes: Charlie Owen On Getting Published I've kept all my polite rejection letters. I'm not sure why – I never intended that one day, if I ever got published, that I'd rush into the offices of editors and agents who'd rejected my synopses, shaking a fist and shouting, 'there, I told you so!' But I kept them anyway and enjoy reading them to remind me how lucky I was to get a break.
John Meaney's Pseudonymous Thriller Edge, a near-future thriller depicting a Britain whose corrupt government has legalised duelling and whose civic services are breaking down, is wrtten by John Meaney (as Thomas Blackthorne). Meaney explains: 'I've used the Blackthorne name because Edge and its sequel, Point, are thrillers for a wide audience (while perhaps too violent for some of my normal science-fiction readership). |
