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Crime
Two very different crime titles top the billing this month, taking us from the bleak croft farms of Scotland to the unforgiving and punishing city streets of Manchester.
Sometime Waterstones bookseller Graeme Macrae Burnet was within a whisker of bagging the Man Booker with his superlative, 19th century drama of guilt and suspicion His Bloody Project, whilst the evils of the inner city threaten to pull Detective Aidan Watts under in the season’s biggest crime debut, Joseph Knox’s Sirens – a novel Lee Child has already judged ‘very special indeed’.
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A Letter from Ben Aaronovitch
Few fantasy series of recent times have had the impact of Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London; its deviously brilliant fusion of old wizards, ghouls and a certain special division of the London Metropolitan Police quickly found an appreciative audience hungry for his take on a rather extraordinary London. It’s also a source of real Waterstonic pride too to say that our lovely shop in Covent Garden (of course!) once benefited from Ben’s bookselling presence, so we always consider Ben as one of our own.
With the sixth in the seriesThe Hanging Tree published today, Ben was kind enough to pen a letter for readers, both for those already in love with the series and the rest who are about to be.
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Crime on the Cam
Crime lurks in the gentlest corners of the British countryside, even in the cloistered quiet of leafy Grantchester; leaving clues that call for the skills of vicar turned detective Sidney Chambers.
Five Essential Japanese Novels
Our Thriller of the Month for October is the Japanese crime fiction sensation, Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama. An engrossing police procedural written in crisp, atmospheric prose, Six Four gives a fascinating glimpse into both Japan itself and its own brand of crime fiction. Yokoyama is a hugely popular author in Japan, selling millions of books in mere days, and yet Six Four is the first of his novels to be translated into English. This would seem the perfect moment therefore to champion other Japanese writers that do not get the attention they deserve.
Junko Takekawa, Senior Arts Programme Officer at The Japan Foundation in London, has kindly written the following article for Waterstones introducing five fascinating and under-appreciated modern novels by Japanese writers.
The Man in the Grey Overcoat – Inspector Maigret
Georges Simenon’s sparing, knife-edged prose sets the bar for detective fiction, now re-issued by Penguin with brand new translations discover the father of littérature de criminalité.
When Darkness Falls
Live By Night, Dennis Lehane’s booze-soaked Boston underworld thriller, comes to the big screen this January making this a perfect time to discover one of the sharpest voices in contemporary American noir.
The Reigning Queen of Crime
Our Curated Selection of Agatha Christie Stories
Ten Books That Inspired Me by Barney Norris
Critically acclaimed poet and playwright Barney Norris is the current Martin Esslin Playwright in Residence at Keble College, Oxford. He has been shortlisted for numerous prestigious awards including The Writers Guild of Great Britain 2014 award for Best Play. His debut novel, Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain, which is our November Book of the Month, tells the story of five disparate characters brought together by a tragic accident. Set in Salisbury, it weaves a tale of small town life: a web of intersecting lives, loves and hopes. The following ten books were his inspiration.
Beyond Baker Street
The master of detection has inspired many writers to don Conan Doyle’s mantle and try their hand at a touch of elementary sleuthing, here we present the best inheritors of the Sherlock legacy.
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