Harrogate International Festivals are delighted to announce a three-year partnership with the UK’s most popular High Street retailer, WHSmith, to promote the most coveted award in crime fiction, the prestigious Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.
Now in its ninth year, the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award was created to celebrate the very best in crime writing and is open to British and Irish authors whose novels are published in paperback from 1 May 2012 – 30 April 2013.
Karl O’Leary, Head of Advertising and Events, at WHSmith said: “Crime is the biggest selling genre and this award represents the best novels within that. We’re thrilled to support such a prestigious award. It really is a perfect partnership in crime fiction. When you consider that we sell in excess of 30 million books a year, we believe we can really get the nation involved voting for their favourite novel to win.”
The 2013 long-list in full:-
Now in its ninth year, the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award was created to celebrate the very best in crime writing and is open to British and Irish authors whose novels are published in paperback from 1 May 2012 – 30 April 2013.
Karl O’Leary, Head of Advertising and Events, at WHSmith said: “Crime is the biggest selling genre and this award represents the best novels within that. We’re thrilled to support such a prestigious award. It really is a perfect partnership in crime fiction. When you consider that we sell in excess of 30 million books a year, we believe we can really get the nation involved voting for their favourite novel to win.”
The 2013 long-list in full:-
- The Guilty One – Lisa Ballantyne (Piatkus)
- Finders Keepers – Belinda Bauer (Transworld)
- Rush Of Blood – Mark Billingham (Little Brown)
- Dead Scared – S J Bolton (Corgi, Transworld)
- The Affair – Lee Child (Transworld)
- A Foreign Country – Charles Cumming (Harpercollins)
- Safe House - Chris Ewan (Faber and Faber)
- Not Dead Yet - Peter James (Macmillan)
- Siege – Simon Kernick (Bantam Press)
- Prague Fatale – Philip Kerr (Quercus)
- The Rage – Gene Kerrigan (Vintage)
- Birthdays for the Dead – Stuart MacBride (Harper)
- The Dark Winter – David Mark (Quercus)
- The Lewis Man – Peter May (Quercus)
- Gods And Beasts – Denise Mina (Orion)
- Stolen Souls – Stuart Neville (Vintage)
- Sacrilege – S. J. Parris (Harper)
- A Dark Redemption – Stav Sherez (Faber and Faber)
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