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Margot Douaihy and Helen Erichsen longlisted for the ILP John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award for Crime Fiction

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Huge congratulations to our wonderful authors for being longlisted. This award celebrates the best in debut crime fiction published in 2023.

SCORCHED GRACE by Margot Douaihy is a sensationally fiery debut featuring a crime-solving queer punk nun that's 'so much more than a mystery' (Gillian Flynn).

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04/23/2024 - 18:41
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Casey and Slater Shortlisted for the 2024 CrimeFest Awards

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Congratulations to Jane Casey and Alice Slater who have been shortlisted in the 2024 CrimeFest Awards. Slater's debut, Death of a Bookseller , is up for the £1,000 Specsavers Debut Crime Novel of the Year and The Close , the tenth instalment in Casey's bestselling Maeve Kerrigan series, is shortlisted...

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04/16/2024 - 10:39
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Sabrin Hasbun wins inaugural Footnote x Counterpoints Writing Prize

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Sabrin Hasbun has won the inaugural Footnote x Counterpoints Writing Prize for writers from refugee and migrant backgrounds.

Hasbun is a Palestinian-Italian transnational writer and lecturer, currently teaching creative writing for activism and decolonisation at Cardiff Metropolitan University. Her submission, Wait for Her, is described as a memoir-family...

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03/28/2024 - 11:37
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Jane Casey stays with Hemlock Press for the 12th instalment of Maeve Kerrigan and new standalone

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Hemlock Press have landed the 12th instalment of Jane Casey's bestselling Maeve Kerrigan series and a new novel, My Friend Maura , Jane's first to be set in Ireland. Jane will be continuing with her long-time editor, Julia Wisdom. Maeve 12 will be published in Spring '25 with My Friend...

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02/29/2024 - 10:34
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