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Success for first ever Morpeth Book Festival as 600 people attend chroniclelive.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chroniclelive.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The literary festival will focus on the theme of crime writing, and participants will be able to hear a series of authors talk and participate in writing workshops.
The literary festival will focus on the theme of crime writing, and participants will be able to hear a series of authors talk and participate in writing workshops.
Popular literary workshops take place as part of festival corkindependent.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from corkindependent.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Here are four fine novels with women in the lead role. One is a fine example of contemporary crime fiction, and one is a double helix narrative set in today’s London and the late 18th century. The third novel deals with dissociative identity disorder, while the fourth is a stirring account of forbidden love and friendship between two women in the 17th century. ‘The Fine Art of Invisible Detection’ by Robert Goddard Recipient of the Diamond Dagger three years ago, an award that recognizes lifetime achievement in Crime Writing by the Crime Writers Association, which Robert Goddard was certainly deserving of for his skillful cross-plotting, this latest of his is a fine example of that special gift. It’s the kind of murder mystery that has us aching to just read one more chapter; perpetually at the end of our wits, wanting to know what happens next. And this one takes us from Tokyo to London, to Cornwall and Cambridge, and then to Iceland. And at the center of all this is a middle aged Japanese widow, who merely works as a secretary for a Tokyo private detective.
The Atlantic Why literary novels about wrenching events are taking more and more cues from crime writing Vanessa Saba / Mondadori Portfolio / Getty At the bookstore where I used to work, we shelved fiction in four separate categories. Crime novels shared a wall with speculative fiction; romance had a set of freestanding shelves. The rest of the fiction room was devoted to literary fiction, which, unlike the others, we never identified by genre name. The publishing industry tends to treat literary as a descriptor, a nod to a work’s artistic quality or aspirations. But literary fiction is a genre like any other, with distinct conventions, strengths, and flaws. It typically centers the personal, preferring inner turmoil to external drama and usually de-emphasizing plot. At its best, its focus on interior life lets readers live in other people’s heads. It also means that such works are well equipped to handle the long emotional fallout of painful or complicated events, even if some of the events themselves pose a challenge to literary writers, with their tendency to turn away from plot.