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Top Ten: Crime Writers (Part Two)

3 May 2013 by Louise Leave a Comment

One of my most consistently popular articles is my Top Ten Crime Writers feature. It is my second most viewed post beaten only by the In Praise of Trailers article. In that I listed 10 crime writers I love..

Filed Under: Top 10 Tagged With: A Means of Escape, Agatha Raisin, Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death, Asa Larsson, CJ Sansom, crime fiction, Crime writers, DCI Tom Thorne, Deal Breaker, Death of a Gossip, Dissolution, Dominion, Eeny Meeny Miny Moe, Enid Blyton, Five on a Treasure Island, Hamish MacBeth, Harlen Coban, Ian Rankin, Jane Tennison, Joanna Price, Lazy Bones, Lynda La Plante, M.C. Beaton, Mark Billingham, Matthew Shardlake, Minette Walters, Prime Suspect, Quentin Jardine, Rebus, Scandinavian crime fiction, Silent Scream, Skinner's Festival, Skinner's Rules, Sleepyhead, Tell No One, The Blood Spilt, The Famous Five, The Ice House, The Savage Altar, The Scold's Bridle, The Secret Seven, Top Tens

Top Ten: World Book Night Books

26 April 2013 by Louise Leave a Comment

This week saw the UK celebrate its 3rd annual World Book Night and the US its 2nd. 23rd April was chosen as the date as it is the UNESCO World Book Day, the anniversary of Shakespeare’s death (and probable birthdate) and the anniversary of the death of Miguel de Cervantes…

Filed Under: Top 10 Tagged With: autobiographies, Blood River, Carol Ann Duffy, Congo, crime thrillers, DRC, dystopian fiction, Heart of Darkness, horror novels, Jackie Kay, Joseph Conrad, Margaret Atwood, Mark Billingham, Markus Zusak, Me Before You, poetry, Red Dust Road, Sleepyhead, Stephen King, Suzanne Collins, The Book Thief, The Handmaid's Tale, The Hunger Games, The Poisonwood Bible, The Road, The Stand, The World's Wife, Tim Butcher, World Book Night, World Book Night 2013

Sleepyhead

9 March 2012 by Louise 1 Comment

I’m delighted to have been chosen as one of this year’s World Book Night givers. I didn’t get my first choice, The Book Thief, but I’m still really pleased to be able to give away 24 copies of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road…

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Cormac McCarthy, crime novels, David Morrissey, locked-in syndrome, Mark Billingham, Scaredy Cat, Sleepyhead, The Book Thief, The Road, Tom Thorne, World Book Night

World Book Night 2012

25 October 2011 by Louise Leave a Comment

World Book Night is an opportunity for those of us who love books to share our passion with those who may not be such big reading fans. In just one night 1 million books are distributed by over 20,000 ‘givers’ – a great celebration of adult literature..

Filed Under: Book News Tagged With: A Tale of Two Cities, Andrea Levy, Audrey Niffenegger, Bernard Cornwell, Bill Bryson, Charles Dickens, Cormac McCarthy, Daphne du Maurier, David Peace, Dodie Smith, Emma Donoghue, free books, giveaways, Good Omens, Harlequin, How I Live Now, I Capture The Castle, Iain M Banks, Jane Austen, Joe Simpson, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Kazuo Ishiguro, Let The Right One In, Maggie O'Farrell, Mark Billingham, Markus Zusak, Martina Cole, Meg Rosoff, Misery, Neil Gaiman, Notes from a Small Island, Paulo Coehlo, Pride and Prejudice, Rebecca, Roald Dahl, Room, Sleepyhead, Small Island, Someone Like You, Sophie Kinsella, Stephen King, Terry Pratchett, The Alchemist, The Book Thief, The Damned United, The Player of Games, The Remains of the Day, The Road, The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic, The Take, The Time Traveler's Wife, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, Touching the Void, World Book Night