Daggerology
The CWA website now has a comprehensive list of all entries submitted by publishers for consideration for this year's Dagger Awards. The shortlists for the Historical, Crime in Translation, Non-Fiction and Short Story Awards will be announced at Bristol Crimefest (May 14th to 18th), so the lists in these categories are effectively (very) longlists.
There's no sign of Charles Palliser's Rustication among the 73 candidates for the Historical Dagger -- WW Norton have submiited it for the Gold Dagger Award. My prediction for this category is that the shortlist will include Miranda Carter's well-reviewed The Strangler Vine.
Elsewhere, I was fascinated to see how many 'cross-genre' titles have been submitted for the Gold Award - Ben Aaronovitch's Broken Homes, Lauren Beukes' Broken Monsters, Paul Cornell's The Severed Streets and Lavie Tidhar's The Violent Century are in competition for consideration against titles from authors such as Carl Hiaasen, James Lee Burke, Walter Mosley, Mark Billingham... my prediction for this category is that the longlist will include Tom Rob Smith's The Farm. The longlist for the Gold, New Blood and Steel Daggers is traditionally unveiled in July, but I note that the CWA Awards dinner for the Crimefest shortlisted categories is on June 30th. The dinner is hosted by Lucy Worsley, whose expertise in the field is thoroughly debunked by Curtis Evans at the Passing Tramp here, here, here, and here.
There's no sign of Charles Palliser's Rustication among the 73 candidates for the Historical Dagger -- WW Norton have submiited it for the Gold Dagger Award. My prediction for this category is that the shortlist will include Miranda Carter's well-reviewed The Strangler Vine.
Elsewhere, I was fascinated to see how many 'cross-genre' titles have been submitted for the Gold Award - Ben Aaronovitch's Broken Homes, Lauren Beukes' Broken Monsters, Paul Cornell's The Severed Streets and Lavie Tidhar's The Violent Century are in competition for consideration against titles from authors such as Carl Hiaasen, James Lee Burke, Walter Mosley, Mark Billingham... my prediction for this category is that the longlist will include Tom Rob Smith's The Farm. The longlist for the Gold, New Blood and Steel Daggers is traditionally unveiled in July, but I note that the CWA Awards dinner for the Crimefest shortlisted categories is on June 30th. The dinner is hosted by Lucy Worsley, whose expertise in the field is thoroughly debunked by Curtis Evans at the Passing Tramp here, here, here, and here.