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Newcastle Noir 10th Anniversary - The Panels Episode 2 of 3
 
Death in Paradise:
Julie Anderson with Phoebe Morgan and Megan Davis
A Kaleidoscope of Heroines:
Jacky Collins with Harriet Tyce, Fiona Erskine and Marie Tierney
Black Stage for Death:
Frances Walker with Howard Linskey and Guy Hale
Investigating Crime:
Jacky Collins with Graham Bartlett, Trevor Wood and Mari Hannah
Panel excerpts - there is a low level background noise to this show, the cost of
 
recording in a hall live at an event. Sadly it is noticeable on parts of the 4th panel. I hope this doesn't interfere with your listening pleasure. I apologize for this.

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The Newcastle Noir Review Show on Crime Time FM featuring Trevor Wood, Sam Holland, Antony Johnstone, Jo Furniss, Rob Parker, Michael Wood and Paul Burke.
The panel select some of their favourite crime novels of 2024 and look ahead to 2025.

Selected Books
Stuart Neville Blood Like Mine
Dom Nolan White City
The Escape Room LD Smithson
Spiral Cameron Ward
Peepshow Kate Summerscale
Three Inch Teeth CJ Box
The Finder novellas Simon Mason
Sanctuary Garry Disher
The Twelve Murders of Christmas Sarah Dunnakey
William  Mason Coile
The Innocents Bridget Walsh
Gallows Wood Louisa Scarf
The Outsider Jane Casey
The Silent Killer Trevor Wood

Recommended 2025
Paperboy Callum McSorley
The Troubled Deep Rob Parker
The Tomorrow Project H Critchlow
Son Johana Gustawsson & Thomas Enger 
Clare Leslie Hall Broken Country
The Girl in Cell A Vaseem Khan
The missing Hours Robert Rutherford 
CJ Box Battle Mountain
Quantum of Menace Vaseem Khan
Notes on a Drowning Anna Sharpe
Holy City Henry Wise, 
The Seventh Floor David McCloskey, 

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Season 7 Episode 5: Screenplay Writing. What can novelists learn from screenplay writers? How does writing for film, TV and streaming work. Alex Michaelides THE FURY (The Devil You Know & The Con is On) and Suk Pannu DEAD AND SCONE (Goodness, Gracious, Me & The Kumars at No.42) Share their extensive experience and knowledge of the industry/art.

Desert Island Films:
Vertigo dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Star Wars: New Hope dir. George Lucas
Casablanca dir. Michael Curtiz

Memoirs: On Writing Stephen King and The Imaginary Girlfriend John Irving

VICTORIA SELMAN
SundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIARS
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Twitter: @VictoriaSelman

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CHRIS MCGINLEY chats to Paul about

Once These Hills It’s 1898. Up on Black Boar Mountain in eastern Kentucky, life is quiet for the small settlement of farmers who work the land around their cabins. But when ten-year old Lydia King unearths an ancient, preserved
body on the seep bog, a curse is let loose. At least that’s what some people believe.
They might be right.
Down in the valley, the Railroad uses convict labor to lay track, hell bent on timbering all of the hillside. Problem is, a trio of violent prisoners feel the work ain’t exactly to their liking. Behind their ring leader Burr Hollis, a predatory, sadistic man whose name inspires fear amongst the hardest of criminals, they take to the hills and leave a wake of their own hell up on Black Boar, as wide and deep as any timber cut.
In the years following, Lydia falls in love and marries a mountain boy, someone as skilled and at home in the woods as she. She discovers an intimate part of herself, and experiences both a physical and spiritual
awakening that allows her to put the trauma behind her . . . or so she thinks.
When Burr Hollis returns for a reckoning with her, she’ll need all of her huntress skills just to stay alive. But she won’t have much of a chance, unless she can reverse the curse of the bog body

COAL BLACK

ONCE THESE HILLS

Mentions & recommendations 
Wilma Dykeman, Harriet Arnow, Janice Holt Giles - Hana Fowler, Willa Cather, Wesley Browne, Sheila Kay Adams - My Old True Love. 

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THE CRIME TIME CHRISTMAS DEBATE 2024:
Maxim Jakubowski, Ayo Onatade, Jake Kerridge, Victoria Selman, Paul Burke and compere Barry Forshaw discuss their crime fiction best books of the year. 
The full list of books is available on the Crime Time website from 2/12/24.

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SEASON 7 EPISODE 4: SUSPENSE
Alice Feeney (Daisy Darker) & Claire Douglas (The Wrong Sister) join Victoria Selman to discuss, wait for it...suspense in Crime Fiction.

VICTORIA SELMAN
SundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIARS
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS
Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman

We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria

Desert island novels:
His Dark Materials Philip Pulman
Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll

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GJ Williams, AJ Aberford & Alec Marsh chat to Paul Burke about their latest novels. Coming into the Christmas period it's easy for the major players to get publicity but what about Indie authors are they squeezed out at this time of the year. Not on this platform.
GJ Williams THE WOLF'S SHADOW Tudor Kardashians, Dr. Dee polymath, Tudor politics and intrigue. Legend Press.
AJ Aberford THE CAR HORN REVOLUTION, Malta, conspiracy and corruption, humour. Hobeck Books.
Alec Marsh CUT AND RUN, Frank Champion, WWI, blue light/red light, Sharpe Books.

Mentions: Dr Nicola Tallis, CJ Sansom, Philippa Gregory, Ian Rankin Midnight and Blue, Devil's Breath Jill Johnson, Alan Clarke, James Wilson The Pieces, Katy Hayes, Robert Graves Goodbye to All That, Jane Thynne Midnight in Vienna, Vaseem Khan City of Destruction, Vera Brittain Testament of Youth.

Paul Burke writes for Monocle Magazine, Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network, Punk Noir Magazine (fiction contribution). He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2024. His first book An Encyclopedia of  Spy Fiction will be out in late 2025.

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Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023-2026 & National Crime Reading Month
& Newcastle Noir 2023 and 2024
2024 Slaughterfest,  

Crime Fiction Review November 2024.

Victim Thomas Enger & Jørn Lier Horst

Nothing But the Truth by Robyn Gigl 

Simon Kernick You All Die Tonight 

Revenge of Rome Simon Scarrow 

The Queen of Cups Murders GB Williams 

The Outsider Jane Casey 

When the Germans Come David Hewson

Spydle Dr Gareth Moore & Laura Jane Ayres

Secrets and Lies Quintin Jardine

The Ghosts of Paris Tara Moss 

Silver Moon Rising A M Potter 

Men of Action Ed Robertson 

Paul Burke writes for Monocle Magazine, Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network, Punk Noir Magazine (fiction contribution). He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2024. His first book An Encyclopedia of  Spy Fiction will be out in late 2025.

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Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023-2026 & National Crime Reading Month
& Newcastle Noir 2023 and 2024
2024 Slaughterfest,  

#OnTheSofa Season 7 Episode 3: Portrayal of gendered violence in fiction, particularly femicide, the murder of women on account of gender. Victoria is Joined by JOAN SMITH author of Unfortunately She Was a Nymphomaniac, ARAMINTA HALL One of the Good Guys and ADAM LEBOR the Danube Blues series.

VICTORIA SELMAN
SundayTimes bestselling author of ALL THE LITTLE LIARS
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/3xmvMeS
Website for news and giveaways: http://www.victoriaselmanauthor.com
Twitter: @VictoriaSelman

We love to hear from our listeners! Find me on Twitter @VictoriaSelman and join in the chat using #OnTheSofaWithVictoria

Desert Island Novels:
Tacitus THE ANNALS
Tolstoy WAR AND PEACE  
Alan Furst DARK STAR

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DOMINIC NOLAN chats to Paul about WHITE CITY, character, tone, London and villains.

WHITE CITY: It's 1952, and London is victorious but broken, a city of war ruins and rationing, run by gangsters and black-market spivs.
An elaborate midnight heist, the biggest robbery in British history, sends newspapers into a frenzy. Politicians are furious, the police red-faced. They have suspicions but no leads. Hunches but no proof.
For two families, it is more than just a sensational headline, as their fathers fail to return home on the day of the robbery.
Young Addie Rowe, daughter of a missing Jamaican postman and drunk ex-club hostess mother, struggles to care for her little sister in a dilapidated Brixton rooming house.
Claire Martin, increasingly resentful of roads not taken, strives to make the rent and keep her teenage son Ray from falling under unsavoury influences in Notting Dale.
She finds herself caught between the interests of dangerous men who may know the truth behind her husband's disappearance: Dave Lander, whose reserved nature she finds difficult to reconcile with his reputation as a violent gang enforcer, and Teddy 'Mother' Nunn, a sociopathic, evangelising outlaw and top lieutenant in Billy Hill's underworld.
Drawn together through the years in the city's invisible web of crime and poverty, the fates of the broken families and violent men collide in 1958, as the West Indian community of Notting Hill's slums come under attack from thugs and Teddy Boys. For Addie, Claire, Dave and Mother, old scores will be settled and new dreams chased in the crucible of London's violent summer.

Dominic Nolan lives in London. WHITE CITY is his fourth novel, following the widely acclaimed VINE STREET, AFTER DARK and PAST LIFE.

Paul Burke writes for Monocle Magazine, Crime Time, Crime Fiction Lover and the European Literature Network, Punk Noir Magazine (fiction contribution). He is also a CWA Historical Dagger Judge 2024. His first book An Encyclopedia of  Spy Fiction will be out in late 2025.

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Crime Time

Crime Time FM is the official podcast of
Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023 & 2025
CrimeFest 2023
CWA Daggers 2023-2026 & National Crime Reading Month
& Newcastle Noir 2023 and 2024
2024 Slaughterfest,