Robotham, Cotterill shortlisted for Daggers
Books Alive ambassador Michael Robotham has been shortlisted for the £2000 (A$4100) CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for crime writing. Robotham was nominated for Shatter (Little Brown), which the judges described...
Readers Feast announces Crime and Justice festival
Melbourne CBD bookseller Reader's Feast has announced ambitious plans for a major Crime and Justice literary festival, to be held in Melbourne next July.At a launch earlier today at the...
Ned Kelly Award winners announced
The winners of the 2007 Ned Kelly Awards--Australia's premier prizes for crime writing--were announced on 29 August by the Crime Writers' Association of Australia, in conjunction with the Age and...
‘The Broken Shore’ wins Duncan Lawrie Dagger
Peter Temple's The Broken Shore (Text) has been named the winner of this year's Duncan Lawrie Dagger--previously known as the ‘Gold Dagger'--by the British Crime Writers Association (CWA). Temple is...
Temple and Robotham aim for dagger
Peter Temple is the first Australian author to be shortlisted for the UK Crime Writers' Association's Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award (formerly know as the Gold Dagger).Temple's The Broken Shore (Text)...