For those of you who are looking forward to B.A. Pike’s talk at The Bodies From The Library Conference on Golden Age Detective Fiction, he has recommended some books by the two authors as pre-reading to get the most out of his presentation. You can find his recommendations on the Bodies From The Library website at: https://thebodiesfromthelibrary.wordpress.com/suggested-reading/
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Suggested Reading for the Conference
For those of you who have bought tickets and can’t wait until June to immerse yourself in the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, Dr John Curran, one of the leading authorities on the genre, has compiled a list of classic Golden Age novels to whet your appetite. You can find the list on the The Bodies From The Library website at https://thebodiesfromthelibrary.wordpress.com/suggested-reading/
Tickets now on sale
Happy New Year! To mark the start of 2015, we are very proud to announce details of a conference featuring an exciting programme of discussions, presentations and panels on the Golden Age of Detective Fiction Writers. You will be able to meet leading experts on classic detective fiction, talk with modern authors whose novels follow in the Golden Age tradition and enjoy the amazing surroundings of our prestigious venue at the British Library.
The conference will take place on 20th June 2015 and tickets are on sale now through our website.
For the full programme and information about the speakers, please visit our website.
We will be keeping the site updated regularly with news of the event and welcome your input and feedback.
Golden Age Detective Fiction tops 2015 Christmas Bestseller lists
We are delighted to learn that a Golden Age Detective Fiction novel is top of the Christmas Bestseller lists. The surprise chart topper is Mystery in White by long-neglected author Joseph Jefferson Farjeon.
We are even more pleased that it is published by the British Library with whom we share an interest in this era and features an excellent introduction by a like-minded modern British crime writer Martin Edwards whose knowledge of this genre is, dare we say it, encyclopaedic.
PD James Dies
We are sorry to learn of the death of PD James at the age of 94. She grew up in the Golden Age era of detective fiction and when she began writing herself, at the comparatively mature age of 42, she inherited the mantle of the great women authors of that era. She established herself as a writer who managed to convey both a sense of place, often setting her books in the eerie wide open spaces of the Suffolk coast, and of character. Her detective creation, Adam Dalgliesh, is one of the finest and most sensitively drawn protagonists in the genre, bringing a literary dimension to what is often a field that suffers from snobbish disdain by the critics. She will be greatly missed.
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