After Agatha by Sally Cline

After Agatha by Sally Cline

After Agatha: Women Write Crime is the first book to examine how British, American and Canadian female crime writers pursue their craft and what they think about crime writing. The book explores why so many women who face fear and violence in their daily lives should be so addicted to crime fiction, much of which features extreme violence. The book analyses why criminal justice professionals including police officers, forensic scientists, probation officers and lawyers have joined traditional detective writers in writing crime.

In After Agatha, Sally Cline offers a brilliantly readable overview of the genre that succeeds in being both comprehensive and detailedA real tour de force and a must read for fans of crime fiction -- Leigh Russell, bestselling author of the DI Geraldine Steel series
A valuable addition to any critical shelf -- Maxim Jakubowski * Crime Time *

Sally Cline was an award-winning biographer and fiction writer, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Research Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, and former Advisory Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund as well as a Hawthornden Fellow. After Agatha: The Explosion in Women's Crime Writing was her fourteenth book. She wrote ten non-fiction titles, one biographical novel Lily and Max (Golden Books) and one book of short stories, One of Us is Lying (Golden Books). Her biography Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John (John Murray, UK) is now a classic, and was shortlisted for the LAMBDA Prize. Her study Lifting the Taboo: Women, Death and Dying (Little, Brown, UK) won the Arts Council Prize for Non-Fiction. Her ground-breaking biography Zelda Fitzgerald: Her Voice in Paradise (John Murray, UK) and Zelda Fitzgerald: The Tragic Meticulously Researched Biography of the Jazz Age's High Priestess (Arcade, NY, US) was a bestseller in both the UK and the US and preceded her landmark biography Dashiell Hammett: Man of Mystery (Arcade NY, US) She was the co-series Editor for Bloomsbury's nine-volume Writers' and Artists' Companions in Writing, for which she co-authored two titles: Literary Non-Fiction (with Midge Gillies) and Life Writing: Writing Biography, Autobiography and Memoir (with Carole Angier). She was 2013 Judge for the HW Fisher Prize for First Published Biographies, a Consulting Editor for the International Literary Quarterly and wrote and recorded podcasts for the Royal Literary Fund. Her short stories for print and radio have won prizes from the BBC and Raconteur. She also won a Hosking Houses Trust Fellowship for Women Writers over forty. Formerly Director of the Royal Literary Fund Mentoring Scheme, mentor for the Arts Council Escalator programme, judge and mentor for the prestigious Gold Dust Mentoring Scheme, she taught social science and politics at Cambridge University. She was on City University London's Creative Writing Programme, was Writer in Residence and mentor for the MA in Creative Writing at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge and ran Creative Writing Workshops for the Guardian Masterclasses at Stratford on Avon. She held degrees and masters from Durham University (English and Philosophy) and Lancaster University (Sociology and Politics) and was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters in International Writing. She lived in Cornwall and Cambridge but sadly passed away in 2022.

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ISBN 13	9780857302328
ISBN 10	0857302329
Title	After Agatha
Author	Sally Cline
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oldcastle Books Ltd
Year published	2022-01-25
Number of pages	260
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