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NTN: Don't Breathe the Air by Simon Fellowes

By DavidPrestidge

10 November, 2013

Ronnie Marston was steeped in the music business. He was one of the most respected roadies in the game, and became a guitar-tech to the stars. Now, those days are over and he is happier running a downmarket rehearsal studio in North London, helped by…

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NTN: Interview with Alastair Gunn

By crimefictionlover

9 November, 2013

Feeling a bit cynical about the run-up to Christmas? The constant battering of the eardrums with boughs of holly, the jingle of bells that makes the hair on your neck stand on end because it’s only November still? Alastair Gunn’s debut novel The Advent Killer…

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NTN: Five women to watch in 2014

By MarinaSofia

8 November, 2013

‘Men are better at crime, women are better at crime fiction,” said PD James, a little tongue-in-cheek, earlier this year. Certainly the wealth and sheer diversity of female writing talent out there gives some credence to her remark. Here we’re going to look at five…

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NTN: The 10 best crime debuts of 2013

By crimefictionlover

6 November, 2013

A debut novel is a bit like a first album for a band, or a first film for a director. No matter how much belief the author, musician or filmmaker has in their talent, the battle is getting the work done, convincing everybody of how…

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NTN: The Honey Guide by Richard Crompton

By Jeremy Megraw

5 November, 2013

Released on St Valentine’s Day this year, The Honey Guide is Richard Crompton’s debut and it’s been getting some love from authors like Ian Rankin. It’s an ideal and welcome arrival for New Talent November. It’s 2007, and in the run-up to Kenya’s national elections,…

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NTN: Taking the Fall by AP McCoy

By DeathBecomesHer

4 November, 2013

In the world of horseracing, AP McCoy certainly wouldn’t qualify as ‘new talent’. He’s ridden over 2,000 winners and has been the UK’s champion jockey 18 times. He’s the Mancheter United of horsemen. However, as a crime author he’s a rookie and Taking the Fall…

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NTN: Interview with CJ Howell

By crimefictionlover

2 November, 2013

Last month, indie publishing outfit New Pulp Press released The Last of the Smoking Bartenders by CJ Howell. It’s an intense and incendiary story about a drifter called Tom who’s actually an agent – deep undercover – out to foil a terrorist plot to blow…

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NTN: Rage Against the Dying by Becky Masterman

By Andre

1 November, 2013

New talent is inevitably associated with precocious writers who started young and stuck at it. Look at Roger Hobbs, now the proud owner of a CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Ghostman, which he wrote while still at college. Hanna Jameson penned Something You Are,…

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NTN: Don't Breathe the Air by Simon Fellowes

NTN: Interview with Alastair Gunn

NTN: Five women to watch in 2014

NTN: The 10 best crime debuts of 2013

NTN: The Honey Guide by Richard Crompton

NTN: Taking the Fall by AP McCoy

NTN: Interview with CJ Howell

NTN: Rage Against the Dying by Becky Masterman

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