According to Booktrade.info
Harlequin Mira have won the rights to three crime novels by Death in
Paradise creator and writer Robert Thorogood. More information can be
read here. Harlequin will publish
the first novel in hardback in January 2015, with the paperback edition
following in June 2015.
One should not be surprised, but according to
USA Today Dan Brown’s novel Inferno was the bestselling novel of the
year. The full article can be found here.
Really good article in the Guardian by Anne Cleeves
on crime books in translation. She talks about her favourite ones which
include Simenon and Camillieri. The full article can be read here.
The British Library are to host the biggest
British Comic Exhibition this year.
Comics Unmasked Art and Anarchy in the UK is due to take place at the
British Library from 2 May until 2014 until 19 August 2014 and will feature some of the biggest names in comics, including
Alan Moore (Watchmen, V for Vendetta), Neil Gaiman (Sandman),
Mark Millar (Kick-Ass) and Grant Morrison (Batman: Arkham Asylum),
the British comics tradition stretches back to the Victorian era and beyond. More information can be found at the BBC and in the Guardian
and The
Telegraph. The British Library are
also due to host Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination between 3 October until 27 January 2015 an exhibition that will examine how Horace
Walpole's The Castle of Otranto in 1764 influenced the likes of Mary Shelley,
Edgar Allen Poe and Bram Stoker. Coinciding
with the exhibition will be a BBC Four season on gothic literature, due to be
broadcast in the autumn.
Laura Wilson’s
round-up of crime fiction in the Guardian
includes the final book in Malcolm Mackay’s Glasgow trilogy, Eva Dolan and Willey
cash.
And if you missed
this news in between Christmas and New Year a
legal ruling has given film-makers and authors the right to create their own
Sherlock Holmes stories in the US without having to pay a licence fee. The
article in the Guardian can be read here.
Interesting article
in The
Telegraph by Jon Stock on what is supposed to be the latest book craze “Chick
Noir”. He talks not only about Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl but also Season to
Taste by Natalie Young which has just been published by Tinder Press.
According to the BBC and Deadline
it appears that the plug has been pulled on the planned remake of Murder, She Wrote. The new version was due to star Oscar winner
Octavia Spencer.
According to the BBC
the hugely successful Father Brown series based
on the stories by GK Chesterton, has been recommissioned for a third series by
BBC One Daytime in collaboration with BBC Worldwide.
Also for the first time in 20 years Michael Palin
is to head the cast of a supernatural thriller.
Remember Me is due to be shown
on BBC One and Palin will play Tom Parfitt, a frail,
old Yorkshire man seemingly alone in the world, whose admittance to a nursing
home triggers a series of inexplicable events.
More information can be found here.
Deutscher Krimi Preis have announced the
winners of the thirtieth Deutscher Krimi Preis with the German-language prize
going to M, by Friedrich Ani, with second place going to Robert Hültner’s
Am Endes Des Tages ( At the End of the Day) and third place
going to Matthias Wittekindt’s Marmormanner
(Marble Men). The translated prize going to Ladrão de
Cadáveres by In Praise of Lies-author
Patrícia Melo. Second plac went to John
Le Carré's Delicate Truth whilst Jerome
Charyn’s Under The Eye of God took
third place.
According to Booktrade.info
Northern Irish crime fiction writer Anthony Quinn's The Blood-Dimmed Tide his first historical crime thriller,
featuring W.B. Yeats, to Ion Mills at No Exit Press, in a three-book deal, for
publication in 2014, by Paul Feldstein at The Feldstein Agency
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