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27 August 2010

Welcome to the 2nd Reading Festival of Crime Writing

(16-19 September 2010)

 With just over 6 weeks to go, preparations for the festival at Reading's magnificent Town Hall are going well.  

TOP 5 BESTSELLING EVENTS
Val McDermid                                            
Lindsey Davis                                           
New Ways with Old Themes: Women and Crime Fiction       
Christopher Brookmyre                                   
Dead Funny: Comic Crime

A number of events have already SOLD OUT ...
West Reading Crime Walk with David Cliffe
Grave Concerns: Forensic Archaeology with Anna Davenport
The Detective in Fiction with Peter Leyland
Forensic Pathology with Dr Ken Shorock

...but there are still plenty to choose from ... www.readingfestivalofcrimewriting.org.uk       
Box Office

My recommendations:
For Agatha Christie fans        With the Dagger in the Library, Friday 17 September, 12.30pm,
For family history buffs                Blood Ties: Crime Fiction and Genealogy, Friday 17 September, 2pm,  
For aspirational writers                Murder They Wrote, Sunday 19 September, 4.30pm

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Programmes
Still need a programme?

E-mail me and I will send you one. You can pick up a programme from any Reading Borough Library or Reading Arts venue.

Looking forward to seeing you in September.

Madeleine

Madeleine Bentley
Reading Festival of Crime Writing & Reading Libraries
www.readingfeswtivalofcrimewriting.org.uk
www.readingarts.com

20 August 2010

- October and November Crime titles are now available! 

12 August 2010

- August Romance titles are now available

- September Crime titles are now available

10 August 2010

- Six titles in Edward Marstons' Domesday series are now avaliable. These popular medieval mysteries have been out of print for some time but at long last are back with us. Please check our Print on Demand section for details

6 August 2010

- All of August 2010 Crime titles now available (found in the New Titles and Upcoming Release)

- Our new Western section has gone live

- Our new Award-Winning Crime section has been started. Take a look to see who this years CWA Dagger nominees are.

29 July 2010

- Our new Translated Crime section (found in the Backlist section) is up and running. This section will be regularly updated.

- The latest reviews from our Romance Bookclub have been put up, read what we thought of Nalini Singh's Angels Blood

- UK August Hardcovers are now available

- Our Crippen & Landru section has been updated with all their available titles

21 July 2010

Signed first editon UK copies of Laurie R. King's The God of the Hive in stock now!

20 July 2010

July Romance titles have been put on. July crime titles are going on now. A new Agatha Christie section with just non-fiction titles at the moment is now available to browse. We are still transferring titles from the old website and hope to have all the crime titles available by the end of the week. The romance titles are still being worked on.

7 July 2010

Work has begun in earnest on our new site.  If you take a look under Store Sections and then go to Hardcase Crime, Crippen & Landru or Print on Demand Titles you will see how all the sections will eventually look. Our search function can now search first by title & then in advanced search by author or keywords.