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Ann Cleeves launches 60th Ann “Family Box Service” in Orkney

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk

Novel Orkney Book Scheme Marks a 60th Anniversary

Back in 1954 began a service of distributing books to avid readers in some of Orkney’s most far-flung islands by ways of library vans boarding and unboarding ferries.

“…it is thought that it was the very first example of this type of service […]

Scottish Crime Fiction Gallery: David Ashton and French guest, Fred Vargas

How amazing! Our blog seems to possess a life of its own now, with its authors sometimes desperately trying to follow it ! There are so many roads opening everywhere that we sometimes feel as if lost in a labyrinth. Mind you ! That’s the kind of thing that may well happen to you if […]

Winners of the CWA Award For The Best Crime Novel Writing and more…

Okay Mairiuna! 🙂 It’s with great pleasure that I will try to shed some light on the prestigious 2006 to 2008 Duncan Lawrie Dagger Award honoring the very best in English crime and thriller writings.

But before I disclose the names of the authors who received the ornamental dagger and a £20,000 prize tied to […]

Ann Cleeves’s Scottish Sense of Place in The Shetland Quartet

Very hot summer day in Bordeaux, especially in my attic room which overlooks our neighbours’s blue swimming pool ! I feel like flopping down on a deck chair in the garden with a good book and fresh lemonade. Of course I would choose a detective novel or a thriller ! It’s quite topical on Scotiana […]