European Crime Book
We are a small, friendly club meeting monthly for lively discussion of European crime books (in translation) chosen by members and to keep abreast of new developments and events in the genre. You are very welcome to join us if it kindles your interest.
We currently have one place available on the Club, which will be allocated on a first come first served basis. Thereafter we will operate a waiting list.
Meetings normally take place on the third Tuesday of the month from 4.30pm – 6.00pm.
Annual subscription £10. To join the group you must first be a member of the 3Ls Students' Association.
Contact: ajjohn.1dr5@gmail.com
ECBC/ Nordic Noir reading list 2014-2022
You can access details of the books the Club has read since it was first established in 2014 - see below.
By Country By Year
Meetings
2022/23 Book List
18 October 2022
Barcelona Shadows
Marc Pastor (Catalonia).
15 November
Even the Darkest Night
Javier Cercas (Spain)
13 December
Fear
Dirk Kurbjuweit (Germany)
17 January 2023
Fatal Isles
Maria Adolfsson (Sweden)
21 February 2023
Kalmann
Joachim Schmidt (Switzerland)
21 March 2023
Reptile Memoirs
Silje Ulstein (Norway)
18 April 2023
The Lost and the Damned
Olivier Norek (France)
Here is some more information to inspire your reading:
2021 Petrona Award for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year
The Petrona Award is open to crime fiction in translation, either written by a Scandinavian author or set in Scandinavia, and published in the UK in the previous calendar year.
The winning title for 2021 was To Cook a Bear by Swedish author Mikael Niemi
For more details see: https://eurocrime.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-petrona-award-2021-winner.html .
You can check out the 2022 longlist at
https://eurocrime.blogspot.com/2022/09/award-news-petrona-award-entries-2022.html
Crime Writers Association DAGGERs 2022
CWA Daggers are the oldest awards in the genre and have been synonymous with quality crime writing for over half a century
The Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger was awarded to Simone Buchholz for Hotel Cartagena, a tense hostage drama set in a hotel in Hamburg. We read an earlier book, Mexico Street, in 2021.
https://thecwa.co.uk/news/2022-cwa-dagger-awards-announced
New crime books (Translated) published in the UK in
2022
http://eurocrime.co.uk/releases_2022_Translated.html
2021
http://eurocrime.co.uk/releases_2021_Translated.html
New Crime Fiction Releases
British, European and Translated
https://eurocrime.blogspot.com/search/label/new%20releases
Scottish Book Festivals
Literature Alliance Scotland has put together a very handy resource which lists all of the book festivals taking place in Scotland online or as hybrid events.
https://literaturealliancescotland.co.uk/events/find-a-book-festival/
Bloody Scotland
The winners of the 2022 McIlvanney Prize and the Bloody Scotland Scottish Crime Debut of the Year were, respectively:
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Alan Parks with May God Forgive (Canongate).
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Tariq Ashkanani with Welcome to Cooper (Thomas & Mercer) and Ayo Onatade
The 2023 event will take place in Stirling 15-17 September
