🔔Don't miss the deadline! 🌍The Bath Novel Award 2026 is for unagented emerging authors worldwide ⏱️Deadline: 31st May 🏆Prize: £5,000 👩‍⚖️Judge: Amanda Harris of Maven Literary 📤Submit: <5k words opening & one-page synopsis of adult or YA novel manuscripts bathnovelaward.co.uk/the-bath-nov...

The Bath Novel Award £5,000 international writing prize

Established in 2013 in the UNESCO city of Bath, the Bath Novel Award is a prestigious and highly-respected international prize for novels by emerging authors.

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Gorgeous flowers from my wonderful children & their lovely partners, congratulating me on my longlisting for @thecwa.bsky.social ILP John Creasey First Novel Dagger! #CWADaggers #supportnetwork #debutauthor #detective #murdermystery

Looking for a murder mystery set in Norfolk? Check out ‘The Lost Detective’! Longlisted for @thecwa.bsky.social ILP John Creasey First Novel Dagger. Shortlisted for @bathnovelaward.co.uk #CWADaggers #detective #mystery #pageturner #bookclubreads

🗡️🎉THE LOST DETECTIVE by @elspethlatimer.bsky.social is up for the CWA ILP John Creasey First Novel Dagger 2026! An earlier draft of this standout crime debut shortlisted for the Bath Novel Award 2023 and you can read more about Elspeth's path-to-publication at: bathnovelaward.co.uk/debut-novel-...

Absolutely thrilled and honoured that The Lost Detective has been longlisted!!! Huge thanks to the judges and team @thecwa.bsky.social and to my publisher Story Machine!!!

The Crime Writers' Association@thecwa.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Please join us in congratulating all the longlisted authors for The ILP John Creasey First Novel Dagger ⚔️📚 Keep your eyes peeled for the shortlist, which will be announced on 28th May! 🗓️

Huge thanks to Sam @mycosybooknook.bsky.social for your brilliant and thoughtful and sensitive review of The Lost Detective!!! (And thank you for persevering, in spite of not liking the cover 😁)

Sam (My Cosy Book Nook)@mycosybooknook.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Thank you to @zooloosbt.bsky.social for including me on the #blogtour for The Lost Detective by @elspethlatimer.bsky.social. Even though I'm not a fan of the front cover, the pages behind it are good enough for me to award a maximum ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐. mycosybooknook.wordpress.com/2026/02/27/b...

Thank you to @zooloosbt.bsky.social for including me on the #blogtour for The Lost Detective by @elspethlatimer.bsky.social. Even though I'm not a fan of the front cover, the pages behind it are good enough for me to award a maximum ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐. mycosybooknook.wordpress.com/2026/02/27/b...

Blog tour: The Lost Detective by Elspeth Latimer

Here’s a book that you – literally – shouldn’t judge by its cover I saw a post on social media this morning that included photographs of the covers of three crime fiction no…

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Thanks for the kind words. I loved the book (and Dan!) and am looking forward to seeing where you take it next. Best of luck with the book - it deserves a massive readership!

So grateful to @readerdad.co.uk for hosting my guest blog about my life-long and seemingly incurable love affair with detectives! Hope you enjoy reading it!

Matthew Craig (Reader Dad)@readerdad.co.uk · 5mo ago

#TheLostDetective author @elspethlatimer.bsky.social has very kindly written a guest post about her love affair with detectives. You can read it here: readerdad.co.uk/2026/02/24/g... @zooloosbt.bsky.social

Huge thanks @readerdad.co.uk for such a fantastic review of my novel, I loved reading all your insights on the story and the characters, great to see Jay and her dad getting a mention too, and I am so delighted that you enjoyed The Lost Detective!

Matthew Craig (Reader Dad)@readerdad.co.uk · 5mo ago

Today, the #TheLostDetective #BlogTour arrives at Reader Dad. Read my thoughts on @elspethlatimer.bsky.social's crime fiction, Norfolk-set debut: readerdad.co.uk/2026/02/24/t...