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 […]

Crime & Thrillers Panel with networking

The Cafe Royal Air Street, London, United Kingdom

Monday 27th June and the Cafe Royal for a brilliant event on Crime and Thrillers hosted by Cathy Rentzenbrink, with a panel to die for! Tickets can be booked here. This month’s event will focus on Crime and Thriller publishing […]

Crime Fiction on Radio 4

Radio 4 , United Kingdom

In the month that thousands of fiction fans head to Yorkshire for the Harrogate Crime Festival, this new short story series, Short Cuts, from BBC Radio 4 celebrates the very particular atmosphere of such festivals. It's often said that there […]

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 […]

Top Crime Writers Headlining at Granite Noir

Music Hall, Aberdeen , United Kingdom

Granite Noir Crime Book Festival in North East Scotland is back for 2020. There will be a huge selection of author conversations, exhibitions, local history talks, film screenings, music, workshops and more, all inspired by crime fiction. Aberdeen – steeped […]

Lee Child – Landmark & Legacy

To celebrate the deposit of Lee Child's Archive at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and twenty-five years since the publication of the first Jack Reacher novel, we are hosting two landmark events to explore Child's legacy and the evolution […]