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Meet the Writers of The Break 5 on BBC Three

Sunday August 2nd

Super honoured, and just a little over excited to announce this: www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/writersroom/entries/40866fa8-3eea-4294-8bb1-54650c4a95e4?fbclid=IwAR1ghSFQ1Ma... ... See MoreSee Less

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BBC Writersroom and BBC Studios Drama Production have announced the five writers who have penned the fifth series of The Break. The bold, short form drama series, now in its fifth year, is a collabora...

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Monday July 13th

Book post! Saw this from uber smart lawyer and author Neil White and had to get it straight away. So useful for anyone writing crime or thrillers! 🔪📖 👩‍⚖️👨‍⚖️⚖️

A Writer's Guide To Criminal Law by Neil White

Criminal lawyer and bestselling crime fiction author, Neil White, combines his years of experience in the legal and writing worlds into a concise and clear understanding of the English criminal justice system.
From the role of solicitors in the police station to the inside track on the workings of the Crown Prosecution Service, right through to what takes place in the courtroom. As a writer, you will find out the pitfalls to avoid and gain an insight into the offences that populate crime fiction to ensure authenticity in your writing.
You will learn how lawyers work and how they approach cases.
Written in plain English, A Writer’s Guide To Criminal Law allows you to truly understand the system.
As a number one bestselling author, Neil White knows what questions writers ask. As a criminal lawyer, he has the answers.

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Friday July 10th

Book post! You know you’ve got a corker when you’re flicking through it before you’ve even dropped the envelope in the recycling. How fascinating is this? 🔪🩸📚Thank you, Robinson publishers Little, Brown Book Group
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From Aconite to the Zodiac Killer: A Dictionary of Crime by Amanda Lees
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This is an indispensable guide for fans of true crime and crime fiction, whether in books, film or on TV, who want to look behind the crime, to understand the mechanics of an investigation, to walk in their favourite detectives' shoes and, most importantly, to solve the clues. To do that, one needs to be fluent in the language of the world of crime.

We need to know what that world-weary DI is talking about when she refers to another MISPER. We have to immediately grasp the significance of the presence of paraquat, and precisely why it is still a poison of choice. If you want to know how many murders it takes for a killer to be defined as a serial killer, what Philip Marlowe means when he talks about being 'on a confidential lay' and why the 'fruit of a poisonous tree' is a legal term rather than something you should avoid on a country walk, this is the reference book you've been waiting for.

It covers police and procedural terms and jargon of many different countries; acronyms; murder methods; criminal definitions, including different types of killers; infamous killers and famous detectives; notorious cases often referred to in crime fiction and true crime; gangster slang, including that of the Eastern European mafia; definitions of illegal drugs; weapons; forensic terminology; types of poisons; words and phrases used in major crime genres, including detective fiction, legal thrillers, courtroom dramas, hardboiled crime, Scandi and Tartan Noir, cosy crime and psychological thrillers; criminology terms; and the language of the courts and the legal systems of British, American, French, Nordic...
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#BlackLivesMatter | Sevenoaks Bookshop

Saturday June 13th

Want to support black writers, a black owned indy bookshop AND buy books (who doesn't want books?!) The uber talented Fleur at Sevenoaks Bookshop has her handpicked favourites of both adult, and children's, books celebrating black lives and black writers up online and available to order. You know you want to. Children's: www.sevenoaksbookshop.co.uk/blacklivesmatter-2/ And adults: www.sevenoaksbookshop.co.uk/blacklivesmatter/ ... See MoreSee Less

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A selection of books for children taken from the shelves of our bookshop.

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Thursday June 11th

Got books you've cleared out and not sure what to do with them? HMP Pentonville library would be DELIGHTED to receive them for locked down, locked in inmates (while their library is closed). Please send all donations to the address below. Make a real difference, guys.

FAO SARAH BOURN
HMP PENTONVILLE
Caledonian Rd
London
N7 8TT

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