The Crime Readers' Association

June is National Crime Reading Month

Venues nationwide , United Kingdom

Fancy hearing your favourite authors talk about their books? Or attending a literary festiuval? Even a good murder mystery? We have it all here on the National Crime Reading Month website: www.crimereadingmonth.co.uk Wherever you are in the British Isles, there […]

Ampthill Literary Festival & Pitch the Professionals

Connolly hall, Redborne Upper School Flitwick Road, Ampthill, Bedford, United Kingdom

It's Ampthill Literary Festival on Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 July! There's lots going on, but especially the writers among you might want to know about this: on the Saturday crime writing duo RC Bridgestock (that is, Bob and Carol) […]

Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival at Harrogate

Old Swan Hotel Swan Road, Harrogate, United Kingdom

The crime writing industry’s self-appointed Annual General Meeting, with a twist, return 21-24 July! Known as the friendliest festival with its feet firmly on Yorkshire ground, the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival guarantees thrills, and a few spills at […]

Edinburgh Book Festival

13-29 August https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/ Lots going on! Maybe it’s not all crime-related but we do have some excellent CWA crime writers there, including Alex Gray, author of the fascinating Keep the Midnight Out, and for the first time, Linda Davies. Well […]

Meet the Author at Selsey,Chichester

Selsey Centre Manor Road, Selsey

  CWA member Eileen Robertson will be taking part in Meet the Author, an event organised by Selsey Writers' Circle, West Sussex. Eileen is the author of the Miss McGuire series of books and others too, described as 'cosy with […]

William Ryan at the Chiswick Book Festival

Chiswick Library Duke's Avenue, Chiswick

William Ryan, author of the acclaimed Inspector Korolev series set in Russia in the 1930s and of the forthcoming The Constant Soldier, is a featured author at the Chiswick Book Festival. Savage Continent: Fiction and the Fall of Nazi Germany […]

Bloody Scotland

Stirling

Stirling, September 9-11 – the crime-writing festival for Scotland A fabulous festival no self-respecting crime reader in or near Scotland would dare to miss. Speakers include Ian Rankin, Mark Billingham, Peter Robinson, Stuart MacBride, MC Beaton, Chris Brookmyre and many […]