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I found the relationship angle tedious. But I really liked the food/recipeangle. I now want to create menus, give them quirky titles , make them into a book and publish!
Crime Writer’s Association (CWA) Dagger Awards
The 2020 shortlists for the Crime Writer’s Association (CWA) Dagger Awards have been revealed. The Daggers celebrate the best in the many different areas of crime fiction.
The winners will be announced on October 22nd.
GOLD DAGGER
Claire Askew: What You Pay For (Hodder & Stoughton) 9781473673113
Lou Berney: November Road (Harper Fiction) 9780008309336
John Fairfax: Forced Confessions (Little, Brown) 9781408711606
Mick Herron: Joe Country (John Murray) 9781473657489
Abir Mukherjee: Death in the East (Harvill Secker) 9781784708535
Michael Robotham: Good Girl, Bad Girl (Sphere) 9780751573435
IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER
Lou Berney: November Road (Harper Fiction) 9780008309336
Tom Chatfield: This is Gomorrah (Hodder & Stoughton) 9781473681392
AA Dhand: One Way Out (Bantam Press) 9780552176538
Eva Dolan: Between Two Evils (Raven Books) 9781408886410
David Koepp: Cold Storage (HQ) 9780008334543
Alex North: The Whisper Man (Michael Joseph) 9781405935999
JOHN CREASEY (NEW BLOOD) DAGGER
Steph Cha: Your House Will Pay (Faber & Faber) 9780571348213
Samantha Downing: My Lovely Wife (Michael Joseph) 9781405939300
Philippa East: Little White Lies (HQ) 9780008344016
Robin Morgan-Bentley: The Wreckage (Trapeze) 9781409194170
Trevor Wood: The Man on the Street (Quercus Fiction) 9781787478367
SAPERE BOOKS HISTORICAL DAGGER
Alis Hawkins: In Two Minds (The Dome Press) 9781912534180
Philip Kerr: Metropolis (Quercus Fiction) 9781787473225
SG MacLean: The Bear Pit (Quercus Fiction) 9781787473614
Abir Mukherjee: Death in the East (Harvill Secker) 9781784708535
Alex Reeve: The Anarchists’ Club (Raven Books) 9781526604194
Ovidia Yu: The Paper Bark Tree Mystery (Constable) 9781472125248
CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION DAGGER
Marion Brunet: Summer of Reckoning, translated by Katherine Gregor (Bitter Lemon Press) 9781912242269
Hannelore Cayre: The Godmother, translated by Stephanie Smee (Old Street Publishing) 9781910400968
E Ferrari: Like Flies from Afar, translated by Adrian Nathan West (Canongate Books) 9781786896964
Jorge Galán: November, translated by Jason Wilson (Constable) 9781472125354
Sergio Olguín: The Fragility of Bodies, translated by Miranda France (Bitter Lemon Press) 9781912242191
Antti Tuomainen: Little Siberia, translated by David Hackston(Orenda Books) 9781912374519
ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION
Casey Cep: Furious Hours (William Heinemann) 9781785150739
Peter Everett: Corrupt Bodies (Icon Books) 9781785785955
Caroline Goode: Honour: Achieving Justice for BanazMahmod (Oneworld Publications) 9781786075451
Sean O’Connor: The Fatal Passion of Alma Rattenbury(Simon & Schuster) 9781471132728
Adam Sisman: The Professor and the Parson: A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking (Profile Books) 9781788162128
Susannah Stapleton: The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective (Picador) 9781509867325
Swapping between Greenwich, the Kent coast and a brief trip to Eastbourne, Detective Inspector Ellen Kelly led us through her latest case. Hard hitting, fascinating and disturbing. I was hooked for a week.
Reading Down to Earth was a journey back to my childhood. A nostalgic trip down memory lane being in the garden with my dad, also a horticultural by trade. Working with the seasons, preparing and working the ground, planting and harvesting. Learning to live with nature, not against it.
‘… all good gardens are as much about the people that make them as the plants growing in them.’
Monty Don.
The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted by Bridget Asher
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
Not quite sure why I persevered with this. Maybe because of the French setting, certainly not for the narrative, which was lost in a whole mountain of unnecessary description. Or for the main character, Heidi, who spent approximately three hundred pages wallowing in detailed self pity.
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All Things Nice by Sheila Bugler
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Spent another week in Sheila Bugler’s criminal world. Set in London, with a tense ending at Beachy Head in East Sussex. Sheila tells a good story- fast paced and gripping.
Four hundred and nine years ago today, 2 May 2020, we had a New Bible. After seven years work, the King James Bible, a new version of the Christian holy book in English, is published for the first time in London. It was commissioned in 1604 and completed as well as published in 1611 under the sponsorship of James VI.
Funny, You Don’t Look Autistic: A Comedian’s Guide to Life on the Spectrum by Michael McCreary
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I had never heard of Michael McCreary- and I didn’t know a lot about Autism. I feel I learnt a lot during the course of this book and will also now look out for Michael McCreary’s comedy.
The Shortlist.
What do you think of the 2020 shortlisted titles? I’d love to know.
Deadly Primrose by Suzette A Hill
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
Quintessentially English with hints of Agatha Raisin in the main character Primrose Oughtergard. Part of the Francis Oughtergard series by Suzette Hill . Set in East Sussex it had local attraction for me. it was OK- cosy crime with a comedy slant.
BE PART OF A MULTI-VOICED READ-ALOUD OF I GO QUIET!
David Ouimet is one of Shortlisted authors for the East Sussex Children’s Book Award- #ESCBA.
Check out this exciting venture on the above link.
Concentrating on a full book at the moment can be difficult! Sample the first chapters of a huge range of new books and see what takes your fancy.
What with working from home, as well as everyone at home together,I am definitely having trouble concentrating on reading at the moment. Really annoying when to my mind I should have loads more reading time. So I love this idea from the Reading Agency Hub.
I blogged on this a few months ago. TV adaptation coming soon- cannot wait!
