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Her Dr Ruth Galloway books have won her legions of fans and myriad awards, and in addition to the Brighton Mysteries series, in recent years Elly Griffiths has turned her hand to the standalone format too. The Stranger Diaries was a big success, and among the characters featured in it was DS Harbinder Kaur. Now

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Born in Kenya and raised in South Africa, Peter Hain moved to the UK in the 1970s and became a leading anti-apartheid activist. In the 1990s, he was elected MP for Neath in South Wales and later rose through the ranks in Tony Blair’s government to serve in a number of cabinet roles. Today, he’s

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When Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously declared “I know it when I see it,” he was referring to obscenity and whether or not the Louis Malle film The Lovers could be categorised as such. I have much the same relationship with psychological thrillers. An exact definition of this most popular of crime fiction sub-genres

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Translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner — A young boy and a father figure in the woods are collecting botanical specimens, a bucolic scene a few pages in from the opening to this beguiling historical crime novel. The man is Pastor Lars Levi Laestadius, who was the real-life leader of a Lutheran revival in the Arctic north of Sweden. The young

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From historical crime fiction through to psychological thrillers, adventuresome crime solving and even a puzzle novel, this week’s new books will hopefully tide you over – especially if you’re pinned down by the latest COVID restrictions. Crime fiction is certainly infectious, but we think it’s what you need to survive the pandemic… The Webs We

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to American poet Louise Glück for “her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.”  BREAKING NEWS: The 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to the American poet Louise Glück “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence

Today we’re joined by Craig Sisterson, author of Southern Cross Crime, a new guidebook to Australian and New Zealand crime writing, and a features writer and reviewer for publications in several countries. Back in May, Craig showcased the best book-to-screen crime dramas to binge during the pandemic. Now he’s taking us on another global adventure from our sofas

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The National Book Foundation has announced the 2020 National Book Awards finalists! The list of finalists is already being described as fresh and timely, with “books about race and the struggle for equality feature[d] prominently” and two novels “with eerie echoes of world catastrophes.” Notably, none of the authors has been a finalist for a

I love reading. My decision to embark on a PhD in Literature, which meant spending half a decade or more hitting the books (both figuratively and literally), probably gave that away. Before beginning my Masters in Comparative Literature, I was reading an average of two novels a week. During my Masters, two books a semester

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On Wednesday morning, a diverse group of lyricists led by Marc Bamuthi Joseph launched the #45Lies challenge via both a website and Instagram. According to the website, the goal is to create a rapid-response movement to fact-check statements made by Donald Trump: “45 lyricists from around the country each take 45 seconds to directly challenge

History has always been a popular jumping off point for comics, from enhanced lecture-style texts to creative nonfiction interpretations and memoir to more interpretively inclined retellings. Each genre has something to teach us about the past and the people who lived in it, who influenced events, and were changed by them. A: The Aztec Empire

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Ironic, isn’t it? Iceland has the lowest murder rate in the world and yet it seems to have the highest density of top crime authors. By our calculations, about one in every 50,000 Icelanders is producing better than average crime novels, which are being translated into English and a variety of other international languages. To

When was the last time a book made you laugh out loud?  For me it was last week, when I was reading Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. I am admittedly very late to the David Sedaris game, but I’m playing catch up at a rapid pace. I read the book in a

On 6 October, Titan Books is releasing Someone’s Listening, a debut crime novel by American author Seraphina Nova Glass. Based in Texas, Seraphina is a script writer who teaches playwriting at the University of Texas, Arlington. She’s taken that background in film and theatre, added inspiration from the world of psychological thrillers, and put together

Horror manga is a different kind of scary. I mean sure, we’ve seen vampires and ghosts, but if you’ve never seen a horror anime, you won’t be prepared for the detailed gore new horror manga has. I rarely watch horror movies, but I love horror anime and manga. I can’t fully explain why it’s much

Dana Russo is standing at the top of a waterfall, clinically weighing up the best way to commit suicide. Then her phone rings and she must snap back into professional mode. Dana is a detective in a small Australian town, and even though it’s her day off she is urgently needed at the scene of

Ahhh parenting. Most people would say it’s one of the most challenging roles that one can take on in this world. It’s me. I’m most people. Especially in the time of corona. That said, it’s never boring. And, unlike most everything else, you can’t really train for it. Sure, you can try to prepare for

Donald E Westlake’s books first appeared on my shelves in the 1970s, sort of mid-way in his 60-year publishing career. Westlake was the award-winning author of more than a hundred books – not all of them novels. He specialised in crime fiction and, especially, novels about crime-capers-gone-awry. He wrote under his own name and a

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