The Bloody Scotland festival today announced contenders for the two awards it hosts that celebrate Scottish noir, the McIlvanney Prize for the Scottish Crime Book of the Year, and the Bloody Scotland Debut Crime Book of the Year award.
Both awards are handed out at the Bloody Scotland festival in Stirling, Scotland which takes place September 15-17.
The McIlvanney Prize recognizes excellence in Scottish crime writing, and includes a prize of £1,000. Below is the McIlvanney Prize 2023 longlist. (The shortlist will be announced in August.)
THE MCILVANNEY PRIZE LONGLIST
D V Bishop – Ritual of Fire(Macmillan)
Heather Darwent – The Things We Do To Our Friends (Penguin)
Kate Foster – The Maiden (Mantle)
Mark Leggatt – Penitent (Fledgling Press)
S G Maclean – The Bookseller of Inverness (Quercus)
Callum McSorley – Squeaky Clean (Pushkin)
Val McDermid – 1989(Little,Brown)
Denise Mina – The Second Murderer (Vintage)
Robbie Morrison – Cast A Cold Eye (Macmillan)
Ian Rankin – A Heart Full of Headstones (Orion)
Craig Russell – The Devil’s Playground (Little,Brown)
Douglas Skelton – An Honourable Thief (Canelo)
THE BLOODY SCOTLAND DEBUT PRIZE SHORTLIST
Heather Critchlow — Unsolved(Canelo)
Heather Darwent — The Things We Do To Our Friends (Penguin)
Kate Foster — The Maiden (Mantle)
Callum McSorley — Squeaky Clean (Pushkin)
Fulton Ross — The Unforgiven Dead (Inkshares)
The Debut Prize winner is awarded a cheque of £500 and a trophy sponsored by The Glencairn Glass.
The Bloody Scotland festival on June 23 announced contenders for the two awards it hosts that celebrate Scottish noir, the McIlvanney Prize for the Scottish Crime Book of the Year, and the Bloody Scotland Debut Crime Book of the Year award.
Both awards are ordinarily handed out at the Bloody Scotland festival in Stirling, Scotland, which has been cancelled this year, however, the winners will be announced in September, the month when the festival would have taken place.
The McIlvanney Prize recognizes excellence in Scottish crime writing, and includes a prize of £1,000 and nationwide promotion in Waterstones.. Here is the McIlvanney Prize 2020 longlist:
McIlvanney Prize for the Scottish Crime Book of the Year Longlist
Lin Anderson, Time for the Dead (Macmillan)
Lisa Gray, Bad Memory (Thomas & Mercer)
Andrew James Greig, Whirligig (Fledgling)
Doug Johnstone, A Dark Matter (Orenda)
Val McDermid, How the Dead Speak (Little, Brown)
Ben McPherson, The Island (HarperCollins)
James Oswald, Bury Them Deep (Headline)
Ambrose Parry, The Art of Dying (Canongate) aka Chris Broomyre and Marisa Haetzman
Mary Paulson-Ellis, The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing (Mantle)
Caro Ramsay, The Red, Red Snow (Severn House)
Craig Robertson, Watch Him Die (Simon & Schuster)
Francine Toon, Pine (Doubleday)
Bloody Scotland Debut Crime Book of the Year Shortlist
???? Congratulations to Claire Askew @OneNightStanzas who has won the inaugural Bloody Scotland Scottish Crime Debut of the Year with All the Hidden Truths!
NED KELLY AWARDS. The 2019 Ned
Kelly Awards, given by the Australian Crime Writing Association, were presented
on September 6.
Best True Crime
Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee
Best First Fiction
The Rúin by Dervla McTiernan
Best Fiction
The Lost Man by Jane Harper
DAVITT AWARDS. The winners of the 2019
Davitt Awards, handed out by Sisters in Crime Australia, were named on August
31. (List obtained with an assist from crime fiction news site Shots.)
Best Adult Crime Novel
The
Rúinby Dervla McTiernan (HarperCollins
Australia)
Best Young Adult Crime Novel
Small Spaces by
Sarah Epstein (Walker Books)
Best Children’s Crime Novel
Wakestone Hall by Judith Rossell (ABC Books)
Best Non-fiction Crime Book
The Arsonist by
Chloe Hooper (Penguin Random House)
Best Debut Novel
Eggshell Skull by
Bri Lee (Allen & Unwin)
Readers’ Choice
The Lost Man by
Jane Harper (Pan Macmillan Australia)
PINCKLEY PRIZES. The
2019
Pinckley Prizes for Crime Fiction, awarded by the Women’s National Book
Association of New Orleans, honor two women
writers. Both winners will receive both a financial award of $2,500 and a trip
to New Orleans to accept their prize at a ceremony on October 10.
The Nosy Parker Award for Best
Amateur Detective Who’s been sticking their nose in where it
doesn’t belong? This award is for the civvie who can’t resist mystery.
A Clean Canvas by Elizabeth Mundy
The Brighton Mermaid by Dorothy Koomson
Red Snow by Will Dean
The Stone Circle by Elly Griffiths
The Suspect by Fiona Barton
The Taking of Annie Thorne by C J Tudor
The Jury’s Out Award for Most
Gripping Courtroom Drama The stakes are high and the twists and turns
are unpredictable. This award is for the book packed full of legal thrills.
Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan
Blood Orange by Harriet Tyce
Marked for Death by Tony Kent
No Further Questions by Gillian McAllister
Our Kind of Cruelty by Araminta Hall
Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh
The Dish Served Cold Award for Best
Revenge Thriller Retribution’s the name of the game here. This
award is for the book serving up just – or unjust – deserts.
Do No Harm by L V Hay
Final Betrayal by Patricia Gibney
Marked for Death by Tony Kent
My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing
The Puppet Show by M W Craven
Sticks and Stones by Jo Jakeman
The Cancel All Plans Award for the
Book You Can’t Put Down Clear your diary. Switch off your phone. Call
in sick. This award is for the book that demands you keep reading.
The Brighton Mermaid by Dorothy Koomson
Her Name Was Rose by Claire Allan
The Night Olivia Fell by Christina Mcdonald
The Passengers by John Marrs
Skin Deep by Liz Nugent
Sleep by C L Taylor
The Cat and Mouse Award for Most
Elusive Villain The hunt is on! This award is for those dastardly
cunning criminals who are particularly difficult to pin down.
Beautiful Liars by Isabel Ashdown
Do No Harm by L V Hay
The Infirmary by L J Ross
The Last of the Magpies by Mark Edwards
The Rumour by Lesley Kara
Twisted by Steve Cavanagh
The Dead Good Recommends Award for
Most Recommended Book Which book do you press into the hands of
everyone you meet? This award is for the novel you recommend above all others.
The Death of Mrs Westaway by Ruth Ware
Now You See Her by Heidi Perks
The Passengers by John Marrs
Skin Deep by Liz Nugent
Sleep by C L Taylor
The Stone Circle by Elly Griffiths
MCILVANNEY PRIZES. Scottish noir is celebrated by the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish crime fiction . Here is the McIlvanney Prize 2019 longlist:
All the Hidden Truths, Claire Askew (Hodder)
No Man’s Land, Neil Broadfoot (Little, Brown)
Fallen Angel, Chris Brookmyre (Little, Brown)
Breakers, Doug Johnstone (Orenda)
All That’s Dead, Stuart MacBride (Harper Collins)
In the Silence, M R Mackenzie (Bloodhound Books)
Broken Ground, Val McDermid (Little, Brown)
A Breath on Dying Embers, Denzil Meyrick (Polygon)
Conviction, Denise Mina (Vintage)
The Way of All Flesh, Ambrose Parry (Canongate) aka Chris Brookmyre and Marisa Haetzman
In a House of Lies, Ian Rankin (Orion)
A Treachery of Spies, Manda Scott (Transworld)
Thunder Bay, Douglas Skelton (Polygon)
Followed by the shortlist for the 2019 McIlvanney Debut Prize. Both
awards are handed out at the Bloody Scotland festival in Stirling, Scotland.
All the Hidden Truths, Claire Askew* (Hodder)
From the Shadows, G R Halliday (Vintage)
Black Camp 21, Bill Jones (Polygon)
In the Silence, M R Mackenzie* (Bloodhound)
The Peat Dead, Allan Martin (Thunderpoint)
They were chosen by an independent panel of readers and booksellers. The finalists for the McIlvanney Prize 2019 will be revealed at the beginning of September and selected by Alison Flood, books reporter for The Guardian and a former news reporter for The Bookseller; James Crawford, chair of Publishing Scotland and presenter of BBC series, Scotland from the Sky and Stuart Cosgrove, writer and broadcaster who was formerly a senior executive at Channel 4. The debut prize will be judged by a panel from the board of Bloody Scotland including crime writers Lin Anderson, Craig Robertson, Gordon Brown and Abir Mukherjee.
Winner will be presented at the Opening Reception of Bloody
Scotland International Crime Writing Festival in Stirling on Friday 20
September 2019.
