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DHH News Roundup 21st - 27th October 2019

10/28/2019

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​We are kicking off this week’s news roundup with the Very Exciting News that M.W. Craven won the CWA Gold Dagger Award for his novel The Puppet Show, the first in the Washington Poe series.
 
This is the highest accolade awarded by the Crime Writers’ Association, for Best Published Novel.
 
Naturally, we are over the moon, but not surprised. We knew this one was special from the get-go, and couldn’t be prouder of Mike.
 
If you’ve yet to read this superb book (perfectly understandable if you live under a rock) then now is the perfect time to start. It is followed by Black Summer, which was released in June 2019, and The Curator will be out in summer 2020.

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M.W. Craven, David Headley (agent), Krystyna Green (publisher at Little, Brown)

​Samantha Baines’ debut children’s book Harriet Versus the Galaxy was reviewed in last week’s Lancashire Evening Post:
 
“A hilarious and heartfelt debut novel… Full of warmth and humour, Harriet Versus the Galaxy - beautifully illustrated by deaf artist Jess Maria Flores - is a taste of friendship, empowerment, disability and one little girl’s fight to save the planet.”
 
Samantha was also featured in The Bookseller last week in their ‘5 Questions’ feature (see photo below).
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​Lovely news from Iceland last week, with Ragnar Jónasson’s White Death hitting the No.1 spot in the country, with critics hailing it as “Ragnar’s best book yet”.
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​We were honoured to be sponsoring this year’s Polari Prize for a new Award, celebrating the best LGBT writing, to run alongside the Polari First Novel Prize and in its inaugural year, it was awarded to poet Andrew McMillan for his collection playtime. Andrew received the Polari Prize from 2019 joint-Booker winner Bernadine Evaristo, who hailed McMillan for “exploring coming of age, masculinity and sexuality in ways that move and surprise. His poetic voice is completely natural and free, with no pretence or attempts to obfuscate meaning, yet the work has emotional complexity, power and depth.”
 
Congratulations, Andrew!
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(L-R): David Headley, Andrew McMillan, Bernadine Evaristo, Angela Chadwick, Paul Burston & Fiona McMurrough

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​Anna Jacob’s next Peppercorn series book, Christmas In Peppercorn Street, was released last week and just in time for the clocks going back - the perfect time to snuggle down with a good read.


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Finally, we cannot wait for the release of Anita Frank’s debut novel The Lost Ones, this Thursday. And neither, it seems, can the Sunday Times, who chose it as part of their historical round-up for October, labelling it “unsettling”.
 
If you love your novels with a touch of the gothic, then this bone-chiller is the one for you.

This weekend, S Magazine reviewed the book, labelling it an "eerie, emotionally supernatural tale" and also ran a short story written by Anita. 
 
Also this weekend, Anita sat down with TalkRadio’s Penny Smith to discuss all things ghostly. To listen again, click here (09.30 - 10.00 slot, approx. 14 minutes in).
 
Read Anita’s ‘My Road To Publication’ feature over on booksbywomen.org here.
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