Writing dual narratives with Winnie M Li
This week we have an interview with author Winnie M Li, writer of the novel Dark Chapter which was described by the Guardian as “a defiant retelling of personal…
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Read ‘Trolls’ by Abigail Saltmarsh
‘£1,000, cash in hand, to visit one location. It had to be incognito, starting from St John’s Cathedral.’
Read ‘Zeppelin’ by Louise Harnby
‘I’ll take four grams,’ he says. ‘Norwich is breaking bad!’
Read ‘No Turning Back’ by Hannah Scuffham
‘Next came the glimpse of movement from the corner of her eye as she hurried along the cobbled streets of Tombland.’
What is hybrid writing?
Matt Wesolowski is the author behind Six Stories and Hydra. In today’s episode we talk to him about the notion of ‘hybrid writing’ – incorporating…
Nicola Upson on Writing Historical Crime Fiction
Crime writer Nicola Upson discusses the history of crime fiction and writing a historical detective series without it being old fashioned. Hosted by Simon Jones,…
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‘I don’t think crime writing is about murder at all’
Val McDermid delivered the annual lecture at the 2018 Noirwich Crime Writing Festival, on the subject of “What we really talk about when we talk…
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Thrillers and literary novels
Leo Benedictus writes about breaking rules and pushing boundaries.
Norfolk Noir: From Yarmouth to Kingsmouth
There’s the Norfolk Noir of Henry Sutton and the Norfolk Noir of Harry Brett: both begin and end in Great Yarmouth, but Sutton’s stretches further, while Brett’s goes darker.
