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- In The St Hilda's Spotlight: - Abir Mukherjee
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- Dark Deeds in Sun-drenched Places by Lexie Elliott
- 2022 Ned Kelly Awards shortlist
| In The St Hilda's Spotlight: - Abir Mukherjee Posted: 23 Jul 2022 10:00 PM PDT
 Name:- Abir Mukherjee Job:- author (and former accountant) Twitter:- @radiomukhers Website :- https://abirmukherjee.com Introduction:- Abir Mukherjee is a Hamilton raised former accountant turned crime writer of the Times bestselling author of the Wyndham & Banerjee series of crime novels set in Raj-era India. His books have won numerous awards including the CWA Dagger for best Historical Novel, the Prix du Polar Européen (A Rising Man), the Wilbur Smith Award for Adventure Writing (A Necessary Evil) and the Amazon Publishing Readers Award for E-book for the Year. His first book A Rising Man (2016) was shortlisted for the Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year Award in 2018. It was also both the Waterstones' Thriller of the Month and the Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month in May 2017. It also won the CWA Endevour Historical Dagger, a Barry Award and the Jhalak Prize. It also won the Harvill Secker and Daily Telegraph crime writing competition. His second book A Necessary Evil was published in 2017 and was also nominated for Gold Dagger and a Barry Award, His third book Smoke and Ashes (2018), the fourth book was also shorlisted for the CWA Sapere Historical Dagger and the HWA (Historical Writers Association) Gold Crown and longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger. Death in The East (2019 )was also won the CWA Sapere Historical Dagger and was also a Sunday Times books of 2021 pick. Shadows of Men (2021) shortlisted for the Gold Dagger. Alongside fellow author, Vaseem Khan, he also hosts the popular Red Hot Chilli Writers podcast, Current book? (This can either be the current book that you are reading or writing) I'm currently reading The Black Drop by Leonora Nattrass, set in the London of the 1790s on the brink of revolution and possible war with America. Favourite book? Only ever one choice: Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell Which two characters would you invite to dinner and why? Bernie Gunther and Arkady Renko – two anti-heroes from different countries, both beaten down, but both linked by that thread of common decency. I think both of them would appreciate a good meal and neither would judge my cooking abilities too harshly. How do you relax? My feet up, some good music and a glass of whisky. Which book do you wish you had written and why? Razorblade Tears by S A Cosby – It's a fantastic concept and a brilliant book. It's the sort of thing I wish I could write. What would you say to your younger self if you were just starting out as a writer. Have more self-confidence. Start earlier. Don't spend twenty years of your life being an accountant! How would you describe your series characters? Sam Wyndham is a tired, jaded ex Scotland Yard detective who takes a job in Calcutta as it's slightly preferable to suicide. Surendranath Banerjee (known as Surrender-not by his linguistically challenged British superiors) is a clever, idealistic, young detective who puts Sam on a pedestal – at least until he works with him. They develop an odd, but close friendship, solving crimes while negotiating the racial tensions of the closing decades of the Raj. With Town and Country: Green Lanes to Mean Streets being the theme at St Hilda's this year, Where is your favourite town and where is your favourite country? Why have you chosen these? My favourite town has to be Kolkata (Calcutta) – it's not an easy place to live, but once you see beyond the surface, you discover a place of art and culture and humour and love and vibrancyto rival anywhere in the world. As for my favourite country – right now I'm still basking in the glow of returning from a trip to Polignano in the south of Italy and so, I'd have to say Italy – for the food, the wine, the climate and the good friends I've made there. What are you looking forward to at St Hilda's? The stimulating debate, the wonderful lectures and the sheer fun of hanging out with people who love crime fiction.  The Shadows of Men by Abir Mukherjee (Vintage Publishing) Out Now Calcutta, 1923. When a Hindu theologian is found murdered in his home, the city is on the brink of all-out religious war. Can officers of the Imperial Police Force, Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant Surendranath Banerjee track down those responsible in time to stop a bloodbath? Set at a time of heightened political tension, beginning in atmospheric Calcutta and taking the detectives all the way to bustling Bombay, the latest instalment in this 'unmissable series presents Wyndham and Banerjee with an unprecedented challenge. Will this be the case that finally drives them apart? Information about 2022 St Hilda's College Crime Fiction Weekend and how to book tickets can be found here. |
| Special Offer at St Hilda's -- One Day Pass Posted: 23 Jul 2022 10:33 AM PDT |
| Dark Deeds in Sun-drenched Places by Lexie Elliott Posted: 23 Jul 2022 05:53 AM PDT
 We're an odd bunch, thriller writers. We don't so much look at the world sideways as from the bottom up, through the lens of whatever we imagine might lie beneath. Sophisticated sun-kissed European cities have me eying the dark shadows of the back alleys, where tourists seldom dare to venture, and I can't stumble across the sight of a beautiful waterfront villa without wondering what's lurking in the damp basement or what horrors might be discovered if the river was dredged. One can speculate that Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr Ripley and M. M. Kaye's Death In… series, along with numerous exotically-set Agatha Christie mysteries, had more of an impact on my teenaged psyche than I appreciated at the time, but I've always been utterly fascinated by tales of darkness that play out in the light: is there anything more seductive than a murderous plot conducted in a glamorous care-free location complete with sun-drenched days and hot, sultry nights? My latest novel, How to Kill Your Best Friend, is set in just such an environment: a luxury resort on a remote island in Southeast Asia. Setting is so very important to me that on any new project it can almost become a character in itself, and it's usually the first thing that comes to mind. I'll be pondering potential ideas and find myself dwelling on a certain location, and an accompanying sense of atmosphere—it's as if I need to know the where before I can find the characters that inhabit that landscape. However, How to Kill Your Best Friend entirely bucked that trend: the title came to me first, and it was so strong that I couldn't ignore it; I found myself in the unfamiliar position of working backwards from it. That title threw up so many questions: why would anyone even consider killing their best friend? What must have happened in the past between these friends? How did they get to this extreme point? From mulling those questions, the central relationship quickly unfolded, based around three women (Georgie, Lissa and Bronwyn) who met and bonded through their university swim team—a very convenient shared passion for me to gift them, I must confess, as I myself have a long history of competitive swimming and thus the research was already ticked off. It's Lissa's death that brings the friendship group back together; we see the tale through the eyes of Georgie and Bronwyn, who each have their own reasons for questioning how a champion swimmer such as Lissa could possibly have drowned. With the beginnings of a cast of characters in mind, the question of setting reared its head: where would this tale play out? At the time, I happened to be on vacation at, erm, a remote resort on an island in Southeast Asia—I'm sure you can connect the dots—and in truth the idea of a resort setting was instantly captivating, not least of all because it made sense logistically for the swimming and the drowning aspects. Perhaps conditioned by my teenage reading material, I could also see distinct possibilities in the juxtaposition of the terrible ordeals the characters undergo with the glamorous luxury setting: the contrast of the darkness and shade of human nature is never so stark as when played out in an environment where people expect to relax and forget their cares. Whilst not precisely a "locked room" scenario, the resort location provides both physical and mental isolation for the characters: physical, in the sense that they are all geographically removed from their ordinary lives and, moreover, spread out across different villas within the resort; and mental, in the sense that the distance and the time zone difficulties cut them off from contact with their usual support systems, leaving them truly alone with their increasingly anxious thoughts. In addition, once the weather turns ominous on the island and the staff begin to melt away, for all its supposed luxury the resort becomes something of a prison that the characters can't escape. How many of us have taken the back seat on the organisation of a vacation, leading to the uncomfortable realisation that you have very little idea of where you are and even less idea of what to do if catastrophe strikes? Have you ever found yourself thinking: where, exactly, is the airport, and how might one get there if there were no hotel staff around to help? If you haven't, you surely will now. As I write this, I've already finished the bulk of the work on my next novel (Bright and Deadly Things, which will be coming out in 2023), and I'm beginning to cast around for ideas for my next project. Unfortunately, we're going on a beach-based island resort holiday this summer, so I can't rely on that for any fresh inspiration. Though I will at least make sure I know where I am, and how to get to the airport…  The perfect getaway - to get away with murder...Georgie, Lissa and Bronwyn have been best friends since they met on their college swimming team. Now Lissa is dead - drowned off the coast of the remote island where her second husband owns a luxury resort. But could a star open-water swimmer really have drowned? Or is something more sinister going on?Brought together for Lissa's memorial, Georgie, Bron, Lissa's grieving husband and their friends find themselves questioning the circumstances around Lissa's death - and each other. As the weather turns ominous, trapping the guests on the island, it slowly dawns on them that Lissa's death was only the beginning. Nobody knows who they can trust. Or if they'll make it off the island alive... |
| 2022 Ned Kelly Awards shortlist Posted: 23 Jul 2022 11:09 AM PDT
 The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) have announced the shortlist for the 2022 Ned Kelly Awards. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Best Debut Crime Fiction Sweet Jimmy by Bryan Brown, (Allen & Unwin) Shadow Over Edmund Street by Suzanne Frankham, (Journey to Words Publishing) Cutters End by Margaret Hickey, (Penguin) Banjawarn by Josh Kemp, (UWA Publishing) Best True Crime The Mother Wound by Amani Haydar, (Macmillan) Larrimah by Caroline Graham & Kylie Stevenson, (Allen & Unwin) Banquet: The Untold Story of Adelaide's Family Murders by Debi Marshall, (Vintage) A Witness of Fact by Drew Rooke, (Scribe) Best International Crime Fiction Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet (Text) The Heron's Cry by Ann Cleeves, (Macmillan) The Maid by Nita Prose, (HarperCollins) Cry Wolf by Hans Rosenfeldt, (HarperCollins) Best Crime Fiction The Enemy Within by Tim Ayliffe, (Simon & Schuster) The Others by Mark Brandi, (Hachette) You Had it Coming by B M Carroll, (Profile Books) The Chase by Candice Fox, (Bantam) Kill Your Brother by Jack Heath, (Allen & Unwin) The Family Doctor by Debra Oswald, (Allen & Unwin) The Deep by Kyle Perry, (Michael Joseph). Established in 1995, the Ned Kelly Awards are Australia's oldest, most prestigious awards honouring crime fiction and true crime writing. ACWA reported that in 2022 'it was particularly pleasing to see authors breaking away from some of the more common crime tropes, with a large variety of characters, settings and social diversity in this year's entries'. The association expects to announce the winners in approximately one month. |
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