📚 THE 2026 LONGLIST 📚
We are thrilled to unveil the 12 titles that make up this year's @SwanseaUni Dylan Thomas Prize longlist.
What a depth of incredible global talent! 😮
PRESS RELEASE 📰: bit.ly/SUDTP26longlist
That’s a wrap on Elmet in Bradford, with rave reviews💥:
⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Guardian
⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Yorkshire Post
Huge thanks to everyone who joined us at the copse🌿🪵
📷 Lee Baxter
Here's some news - BLOOD ON THE SNOW is the title of book 7 in my Detective James Walker Christmas crime series. It'll be published next Oct and can already be pre-ordered online. Cover and storyline to be revealed soon 🎅🎅
Join us for an evening with author Sandra Hempel as she discusses her book "Controlling Women", and discover the trailblazing story of founding the Women Police Volunteers.
🗓 Tuesday 11 November
🕖 7pm – 8pm
📍 Richmond Library
👉 richmond.gov.uk/richmond_rea…
.@PressIndigoThe has acquired The Spinster Cookbook: Culture, Politics and Pleasure in the Single Woman’s Kitchen by Eli Davies. The book will be published on 11th June 2026 👇
So pleased to announce I've signed a new deal with publishers Avon/Harper Collins to write 2 more books in my DCI James Walker crime series. Book 6 - COLD BLOODED KILLER - is now out and I'm working on book 7. So excited 🎉🎉
“Epic with a capital E” - Elmet is in The Guardian 🤩
A great interview in The Guardian with Javaad Alipoor and @FJMozley on adapting her novel as a tragedy steeped in Yorkshire.
🔗Read the full piece: ow.ly/NKie50Xh6cB
Out at last - my 27th published book and the 6th in my Christmas crime series written under my Alex Pine pseudonym. COLD BLOODED KILLER continues to follow the exploits of DCI James Walker and his team as they investigate another brutal murder during the season of goodwill 🎅🎅
Just starting my new novel by my mate the author Alex Pine - Cold blooded killer
Got to love a detective story
Bedtime reading to wind down after another big day working with amazing people on the build
Just hours to go until COLD BLOODED KILLER is published on all platforms. The latest in my DCI James Walker series delivers another dose of murder, mystery and mayhem in the run up to Christmas 🎅🎅
I chatted to Gayle Lofthouse on @BBCLeeds about the Elmet play that’s premiering in Bradford 22nd October-2nd November. You can listen here. @javaadalipoor
COLD BLOODED KILLER, the latest book in my DCI James Walker series, is officially released on Thursday. But if you can't wait to get your hands on a paperback copy they've already hit the Tesco supermarket shelves thanks to a deal between the stores and publisher 👍👍
.@johnmurrays is set to publish Booker Prize and Women's Prize nominee Fiona Mozley's (@FJMozley) third book. Awake, Awake will publish in in June 2026 👇 ebx.sh/ELc2Gw
Got a nice surprise to see my book THE KILLER IN THE COLD in The Works, Southampton today. It's book 5 in my DCI James Walker crime series. Book 6, COLD BLOODED KILLER, will be published on Oct 23 🎉🎉