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The latest news about our gripping crime fiction, thrillers and mysteries, detective books, crime stories and page-turning books.

September Newsletter Out Now

Bitter Lemon Press September Newsletter

Read about our novels out now, see their reviews, and read about forthcoming publications, rights recently acquired and events planned for this autumn. The Frankfurt Book Fair is around the corner. A sort of Iron Man event for ageing publishers: we will be tweeting all the gossip we hear and posting the odd Instagram image so you can be there with us, at least virtually.

Essay by Ben Pastor on 'Knight, Death, and the Devil, Or: How to Help Your Protagonist Save His Soul'

Ben Pastor - Liar Moon

ESSAY for The Life Sentence 

Knight, Death, and the Devil, Or: How to Help Your Protagonist Save His Soul BY BEN PASTOR

Bitter Lemon Newsletter is out now - July 2015

The Summer Reads Newsletter is out. Recommendations for your summer packing and a competition to win three  BLP paperbacks of your choice.

Fallout by Paul Thomas on 2015 shortlist for best NZ crime novel

Paul Thomas - Fallout

Fallout on shortlist of five for 2015 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel in New Zealand. Expect it to win in September!

 

Elliott Colla’s magnificent thriller Baghdad Central

Elliott Colla - Baghdad Central
Baghdad Central has just won the IndieFab Silver Award for best thrillers of 2014

Leonardo Padura has won the 2015 Princess of Asturias award for Literature

Leonardo Padura - The Man Who Loved Dogs
Many consider this the Spanish Nobel Prize.

Bitter Lemon Press snaps up the rights to compelling new novel by Janet Todd

Janet Todd - A Man of Genius

Bitter Lemon Press has bought the rights to "A Man of Genius" by internationally renowned Cambridge scholar Janet Todd.

Fallout by Paul Thomas in NZ crime award long list for 2015.

Paul Thomas - Fallout
Long list for 2015 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel, revealed today and includes Fallout by Paul Thomas.

Padura interview on BBC

Padura interviewed on BBC Radio about writing in Cuba

Havana Quartet radio plays on BBC

 

Havana Quartet on BBC Radio 4 in November 2014


 

Pastor in London to launch Dark Song of Blood

Ben Pastor - A Dark Song of Blood

Ben Pastor will be at two events in London on June 11 and 12 sponsored by ACE...

Arts Council Fiction Group Book of the Month

Anita Nair - A Cut-Like Wound

'A Cut-Like Wound' by Anita Nair chosen as Book of the Month by Arts Council Fiction Group.