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Weirdo by Cathi Unsworth – first chapter extract
May 21st, 2013
Wicked Witch of the East, the tabloids called her. Bloody Weirdo, is what the locals said. Corinne Woodrow was fifteen when she was convicted of murdering one of her classmates on a summer’s evening in 1984, a year when the teenagers of Ernemouth ran wild, dressing in black and staying...
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Jeremy Scahill serves a ‘truth sandwich’ on BBC Newsnight
May 17th, 2013
Jeremy Scahill appeared on BBC Newsnight on Wednesday 15th May to talk about Obama’s covert war on terror. The anti-interventionist and author of Dirty Wars:The World is a Battlefield said, “We are actually making more enemies than we are killing terrorists”, referring to US operations in the Middle East. The interview...
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Film of Cathi Unsworth’s Weirdo to be produced
May 16th, 2013
Film rights in Cathi Unsworth’s highly acclaimed thriller, Weirdo, have been optioned by award-winning producer Alex Usborne at Picture Palace North. The deal was conducted on behalf of RCL by Meg Davis at Ki Agency Ltd. Dubbed ‘the First Lady of Noir Fiction’, and ‘one of Britain’s most potent writers...
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Adrian McKinty wins the Spinetingler Award for Best Novel
May 7th, 2013
Adrian McKinty’s crime novel The Cold Cold Ground has won the Spinetingler Magazine award for Best Novel: Rising Star/Legends. Adrian commented, “I’m really very touched. I put a lot of my heart and soul into that book. It was both harrowing and strangely fun journeying back to the 1981 of my imagination...
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Cathi Unsworth at Stoke Newington Literary Festival
May 17th, 2013
London Noir Skulk beside the murky waters of the Thames, or steal through maze-like backstreets of the East End as this event explores London as an archaic crime-fiction capital. The city that once housed Jack the Ripper and the Kray twins makes the perfect gritty setting for the archetypal thriller....
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Peter Culshaw at Stoke Newington Literary Festival
May 17th, 2013
Described by Malcom McLaren as ‘the Indiana Jones of world music’, Peter Culshaw’s work for the Guardian, Observer and the Telegraph has taken him from Africa to the Amazon. Teaming his background in arts broadcasting with a musician past that saw him recording with Buena Vista Social Club, Culshaw takes...
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Paul Willetts at The Society Club, Soho
May 14th, 2013
The Society Club presents Paul Willetts on The Look of Love: The Life and Times of Paul Raymond, Soho’s King of Clubs Acclaimed chronicler of Soho bohemia, Paul Willetts, will be discussing his tragic-comic biography of Paul Raymond, The Look of Love, on which the stylish new Michael Winterbottom movie is...
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In conversation with Jeremy Scahill, author of DIRTY WARS
May 7th, 2013
Doughty Street Chambers and Reprieve present In conversation with Jeremy Scahill Author of New York Times best-seller Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield (http://dirtywars.org/). 6pm Wednesday 15 May 2013 Doughty StreetChambers, London Followed by drinks reception and book signing Download the flyer Dirty Wars takes us inside America’s new...