Literature Matters

The Spring edition of 'Literature Matters' a magazine produced by the British Arts Council focused exclusively on crime.

"To celebrate the diversity, quality, breadth and energy of British crime fiction, this issue of Literature Matters plays homage to the genre and features articles by a wide range of critics, novelists, booksellers and publishers, discussing the strengths, weaknesses and quirks within the genre. Issues around translation and crime fiction are huge right now, and Maxim Jakubowski and Christopher MacLehose discuss this with eloquence and passion. Denise Mina explores the complicated and emotive subject of the status of crime writing while Simon Brett and Nicholas Blincoe both offer insights into how crime fiction came to be both revered as serious literary fiction and dismissed as light genre fare. Carla Banks and Margaret Murphy offer a splendid overview of the current greats and the newbies of the crime fiction world. And as far as everything else goes, the regular features are with us too – Writers Talk Books, Writers Abroad and Plat du Jour."

Other contributors include P D James and Natasha Cooper. You can read all the articles here.