P.D.James among nominations for H R F Keating Award

03.05.13 | Joshua Farrington - The Bookseller

P D James is one of the writers nominated for the H R F Keating Award, which rewards biographical or critical books related to crime fiction.

James' Talking About Detective Fiction (The Bodleian Library) has been chosen alongside Declan Burke and John Connolly's Books to Die For (Hodder & Stoughton), John Curran's Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks (HarperCollins), Barry Forshaw as editor of British Crime Writing: An Encyclopaedia (Greenwood World Publishing), Christopher Fowler¹s Invisible Ink (Strange Attractor) and Maxim Jakubowski as editor of Following the Detectives (New Holland).

The award was set up in the name of Harry Keating, a crime novelist and reviewer for The Times who died in 2011.

Eligible titles were gathered together by Martin Edwards from submissions by crime writing festival Crimefest's newsletter subscribers. A team of British crime fiction reviewers have established the shortlist and will choose the eventual winner.