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Anglicanism and Women Novelists: A Special Relationship

10 Tuesday Jan 2017

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Barbara Pym, crime fiction, P D James

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The lecture at the 2017 May meeting of the Barbara Pym Society  in London looks like being a good one for anyone interested in the relationship between Anglicanism, women novelists and detective fiction. It’s being given by Alison Shell, a professor in the English department at University College London. She is currently co-editing Anglican Women Novelists (Bloomsbury 2018) to which she will be contributing an essay on P D James – Baroness James was an honorary  life member of the Society and a great admirer of Barbara Pym’s books.

The Barbara Pym Society website is http://www.barbara-pym.org

The British Library’s Crime Classics series

21 Wednesday Jan 2015

Posted by ninevoices in Books, Crime, Ed, Read Lately

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British Library, Christmas, crime fiction, Ed found this, Hog's Back, Northern Line, Oxford, Piccadilly, snow

Thanks to that excellent institution the British Library, for publishing its Crime Classics series. These are a selection of novels from the Golden Age of detective fiction. Aficionados will have been aware of it for some time, but I’ve just come across it and was fortunate enough to be given two of them for Christmas. I’m currently much enjoying Mystery in White – A Christmas Crime Story, by J Jefferson Farjeon (originally published in 1937): a group of strangers find themselves trapped by heavy snow on Christmas Eve in a country house, which mysteriously has fires burning and food ready, but no-one is home … Great suspense.

My other gift was The Sussex Downs Murder, by John Bude (1936), a delight I have in store. Others in the series have settings such as the London Underground’s Northern Line (Murder Underground by Mavis Doriel Hay), an Oxford college (Death on the Cherwell by the same author), the very centre of London (Murder in Piccadilly by Charles Kingston), and the Hog’s Back beauty spot in Surrey (The Hog’s Back Mystery by the great Freeman Wills Crofts).

For details on some of these see http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/publishing/publications-catalogue-spring-2015.pdf (scroll down to pages 6 to 11) or http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/publishing/publications-catalogue-spring-2014.pdf (pages 10 to 13).

 

P D James

27 Thursday Nov 2014

Posted by ninevoices in Crime, Ed, Fiction, News

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P D James – one of the greats. RIP

Crimefest 2013: I went for the bag…

04 Tuesday Jun 2013

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crime fiction, Crimefest, John Lawton, Robert Goddard, Robert Wilson, William McIlvanney

…but I stayed for the wide choice of panels, interviews and seminars. More than a hundred authors participated in over fifty discussions on almost every aspect of crime fiction from setting (Crime in the Country; Major Cities, Major Crimes, etc.) to character (Police Detective, Amateur, PI or Bad Guy: Who Makes the Best Protagonist; The Power of Authors: Are you in charge of your characters, etc.) to morality (Violence: Is it ever too much?; Moral Hypocrisy in Crime Fiction) to name just a few.

The weekend had several highlights. Barry Forshaw conducted an entertaining interview with Robert Goddard, an author I once enjoyed but have unaccountably stopped reading. There was a strong contingent of Scottish crime writers including Caro Ramsay, Denise Mina and William McIlvanney. The latter two were interviewed by Jake Kerridge on The Power of Tartan Noir. McIlvanney in particular was a revelation. Described as a ‘champion of gritty yet poetic literature’ and considered by many as the father of Tartan Noir (although he didn’t care much for that expression), he wrote among other things the three Laidlaw novels set in 1970s Glasgow which set the tone for writers such as Ian Rankin. McIlvanney spoke with great affection about Glasgow and its influence on his writing. He was also eloquent on the role of writer as ‘shapeshifter’ and the importance of inhabiting even the most unsympathetic of characters to dignify and humanise them.

I was pleased to meet some long-admired writers including Robert Wilson and John Lawton as well as to be introduced to several new ones such as Norwegian Thomas Enger. In addition, Jeffery Deaver gave a thriller writing seminar and the creators of the BBC’s Sherlock were interviewed.

Evening entertainments included a pub quiz, a cocktail reception during which the Crime Writers’ Association announced its first batch of this year’s shortlists (www.thecwa.co.uk) and a gala dinner with Robert Goddard as toastmaster.

All in all it was a great chance to schmooze with readers, other aspiring writers and published authors while gathering tips and inspiration along the way. And I came home with not one, but two bags, both filled to the brim with promising new reads.

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