Val McDermid has gone straight to number one in her first appearance in The Bookseller’s Weekly E-Book Ranking. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-09-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Val McDermid, Anthony Horowitz and Martina Cole have been confirmed on the killer line-up for the fourth Noirwich Crime Writing Festival. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-08-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Authors Ian Rankin, Val McDermid and Deborah Levy are among a roster of starry names made new Royal Society of Literature fellows for 2017. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Val McDermid, Christopher Brookmyre, Denise Mina and Stuart MacBride will feature in crime festival Bloody Scotland's first ever book of fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The shortlist for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year pits "Queen of Crime" Val McDermid's 30th novel against an espionage thriller by Mick Herron, as well as Chris Brookmyre's "celtic Gone Girl". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Val McDermid has written an apocalyptic science thriller on the failure of antibiotics for BBC Radio 4, entitled "Resistance". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Val McDermid’s Out of Bounds (Sphere) has maintained a steely grip on the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, topping the charts for a second week in a row, according to Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Val McDermid has bounced straight into the UK Official number one spot with Out of Bounds (Sphere), shifting 13,310 copies for £53,483 according to Nielsen BookScan's Total Consumer Market. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The BBC plans to air a “poignant and humorous” documentary about author Sir Terry Pratchett as well an Imagine programme on Maya Angelou. A 50-minute documentary entitled "Terry Pratchett: Back in Black" will run in early to mid February (yet to be confirmed), telling the bestselling author’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Val McDermid is worth more than £2.6m, according to the crime author’s personal company accounts. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Little, Brown has acquired two more thrillers from "Queen of Crime" Val McDermid. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-07-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Scottish crime writer Val McDermid is publishing her 30th novel, a suspenseful thriller called Out of Bounds, with Little, Brown this August. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ian Rankin, Val McDermid, Martina Cole and Mark Billingham are among the stellar names lined up for the fifth Bloody Scotland festival in Stirling. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Established authors Ann Cleeves and Peter James and newcomer Paula Hawkins were among the winners of the inaugural Dead Good Reader Awards. The awards, given out on Friday 17th July at the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate, were voted on by readers and members of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-07-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House’s crime community Dead Good Books has created six awards to be presented at this year’s Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Writing Festival by authors including Lee Child and Val McDermid. Each award has been created in collaboration with the Dead Good Facebook community and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Crime writer Val McDermid, who is planning to vote in favour of Scottish independence, has said... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
John le Carré, Robert Galbraith and Val McDermid are among the authors shortlisted for... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Val McDermid tells the BBC's Nick Higham about her latest book Cross and Burn, the eighth novel in The Wire in the Blood series. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2013-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Crime author Val McDermid is to write a contemporary re-working of Jane Austen's Northanger... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ian Rankin, Robert Harris and Val McDermid are on the longlist for this year's Theakstons Old... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]