Fiction
Crime scene on Harrogate StationCrime scene on Harrogate Station which I saw on my way to the Old Peculier Crime Writers’s event. Then it rained and rained and rained. Arghhh So I had to take a taxi.
Man Booker long list annouced
The Man Booker prize ‘promotes the finest in fiction by rewarding the very best book of the year’. The panel of judges have now whittled down the 132 submitted novels to the thirteen book, Man Booker long list. The long list will in turn be reduced to six books over the next month and the winner of the £50,000 prize will be annouced on the 6th October, 2009. 
Theakstons Crime Novel Award 2009: Mark Billingham winsMark Billingham’s novel ‘Death Message’ wins the Theakston Crime Novel of 2009 award. 
Amazon de-Kindles George OrwellAmazon’s Kindle as most will know is a portable, electronic device for reading books. It differs from most of its competitors by the fact that it attached to to a wifi system, so that books can be downloaded through the air ways. It has the plus that as you commute to work [...] 
Frank McCourt, author of ‘Angela’s Ashes has diedThe well respected Irish author Frank McCourt has died in New York City, aged 78. He was the author of Angela’s Ashes, a memoir about his traumatic childhood. 
Authors boycott school visitsPhilip Pullman and many top authors are now refusing to visit schools. The reason: another government scheme. This one requires all people who work with children to be vetted, and they will have to pay a £63 fee for the priviledge. 
Orange Prize winner: Marilynne Robinson’s HomeThe author Marilynne Robinson’s novel Home was the winner of this year’s prize. Marilynne Robinson was presented with the award by Fi Glover, a BBC presenter, at London’s Royal Festival Hall. | |
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Mark Billingham is one of Britain’s well established writers. His DI, (Detective Inspector), Tom Thorne novels have been spectacularly successful in the UK and abroad. He was the opening speaker... [More] In Cold Blood by Truman Capote was published in 1966, and is based on events that happened almost fifty years ago. The events were real. This is not a work of fiction. The Clutters, an appropriately surnamed... [More] I don’t read many books that claim membership of a genre. In my humble opinion, a work of fiction should aspire to create its own world, describe it, communicate it and then live in it. I want a book’s... [More]
Fiction
Crime scene on Harrogate Station which I saw on my way to the Old Peculier Crime Writers’s event. Then it rained and rained and rained. Arghhh So I had to take a taxi. Any discussion related to the thrillers can hardly be complete, without referring to the magnanimous contribution of Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock. This outstanding director of thriller movies was born in... [More] Thriller is one of the most enjoyable and sought after category of literature. This has led many thrillers to be turned into films. Despite the difficulty of discussing all the thrillers and their movie... [More] Thriller publishers are now focusing on the new form of media publishing, giving special emphasis on spy and military gaming. This form of thriller publication will target the first person shooter generation.... [More]
Non-fiction
It is fifty years since Doris Lessing published Going Home, an account of her return to Rhodesia, the country where she grew up. By then in her thirties, she had already achieved the status of restricted... [More]
News
The Man Booker prize ‘promotes the finest in fiction by rewarding the very best book of the year’. The panel of judges have now whittled down the 132 submitted novels to the thirteen book,... [More] Mark Billingham’s novel ‘Death Message’ wins the Theakston Crime Novel of 2009 award. He was presented with the special barrel of Old Peculier and the £3,000 prize, by Simon Theakston,... [More] Amazon’s Kindle as most will know is a portable, electronic device for reading books. It differs from most of its competitors by the fact that it attached to to a wifi system, so that books can... [More]
Features
If you are into crime fiction you need to join the Billingham Talk Zone. Mark Billingham’s website is an excellent example of how an author could set up a website. For anyone interested in... [More] You can freely download books from Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, Kafka, Tolstoy, Jane Austin, Oscar Wilde, Victor Hugo and thousands more from Project Gutenberg. ... [More] If you want to play around with ideas then site, Seventh Sanctum is for you. All this site does is generate names, good and evil, locations, technologies, dieties, types of government, magic spells... [More] New York Times bestselling author, L.A. Banks has penned over 35 novels and 12 novellas in a wide range of genres and is the recipient of the 2008 Essence Magazine Storyteller of the Year Award, as well... [More] Today we are sitting down with Dianne Ascroft, author of the historical fiction novel, Hitler and Mars Bars. Dianne has been dashing around the internet on a Virtual Book Tour promoting her debut novel... [More]
Literary Fiction
It is fifty years since Doris Lessing published Going Home, an account of her return to Rhodesia, the country where she grew up. By then in her thirties, she had already achieved the status of restricted... [More] Black Snow is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov. This apparent platitude is full of contradiction. The book is perhaps better described as an autobiographical episode, with Bulgakov renamed as the book’s... [More] |
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Theakstons Crime: Mark Billingham - crime writer
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote: Crime, Punishment, and More | 
A Million Would be Nice by Ken Scott | 
Hitchcock, the Master of Thrillers
Thrillers in Films
Thrillers in New Media
Going Home by Doris Lessing | 
Man Booker long list annouced
Theakstons Crime Novel Award 2009: Mark Billingham wins
Amazon de-Kindles George Orwell
Author Mark Billingham's website
Project Gutenberg: Free ebooks
Generate Your Own Stories
Interview With Leslie Banks, Author of the Vampire Huntress Series | 
Interview With Historical Novelist Dianne Ascroft | 
Black Snow by Mikhail Bulgakov
Man Booker long list annouced
Theakstons Crime: Mark Billingham – crime writer
Theakstons Crime Novel Award 2009: Mark Billingham wins
Crime scene on Harrogate Station
Amazon de-Kindles George Orwell
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