sponsored by The Glencairn Glass
Winner to be presented on
Friday 13 September 2024
on the opening night of the festival
Friday 13 September 2024
on the opening night of the festival
The 2024 McIlvanney Prize
winner will be announced in the ballroom of The Golden Lion Hotel on the
opening night of the Bloody Scotland International Crime Writing Festival and
lead a procession of The Stirling and District Schools Pipe Band to the Albert
Halls. This year the prize will be judged by BBC Scotland presenter,
Bryan Burnett; Category Manager for Waterstones, Angie Crawford and Journalist
and Editor, Arusa Qureshi.
The 2024 longlist - selected by an Academy composed of booksellers, librarians, bloggers and broadcasters - is today revealed to be:
D V Bishop – A Divine Fury (Pan Macmillan)
Chris Brookmyre – The Cracked Mirror (Sphere)
Charles Cumming – Kennedy 35 (HarperCollins)
Andrew James Greig – The Girl in the Loch (Storm Publishing)
Doug Johnstone – The Collapsing Wave (Orenda)
S G Maclean – The Winter List (Quercus)
Val McDermid – Past Lying (Sphere)
Abir Mukherjee – Hunted (Vintage)
C S Robertson – The Trials of Marjory Crowe (Hodder & Stoughton)
Kim Sherwood – A Spy Like Me (HarperCollins)
Doug Sinclair – Blood Runs Deep (Storm Publishing)
Douglas Skelton – The Hollow Mountain (Polygon)
The 2024 longlist - selected by an Academy composed of booksellers, librarians, bloggers and broadcasters - is today revealed to be:
D V Bishop – A Divine Fury (Pan Macmillan)
Chris Brookmyre – The Cracked Mirror (Sphere)
Charles Cumming – Kennedy 35 (HarperCollins)
Andrew James Greig – The Girl in the Loch (Storm Publishing)
Doug Johnstone – The Collapsing Wave (Orenda)
S G Maclean – The Winter List (Quercus)
Val McDermid – Past Lying (Sphere)
Abir Mukherjee – Hunted (Vintage)
C S Robertson – The Trials of Marjory Crowe (Hodder & Stoughton)
Kim Sherwood – A Spy Like Me (HarperCollins)
Doug Sinclair – Blood Runs Deep (Storm Publishing)
Douglas Skelton – The Hollow Mountain (Polygon)
Debut author, Doug
Sinclair, who also features on the shortlist for the Bloody Scotland Debut
Prize, is up against some of the biggest names in Scottish crime fiction.
The longlist also features two previous winners (Chris Brookmyre and Charles
Cumming) and a crime writer who got his first big break at Bloody Scotland when
he won Pitch Perfect (D V Bishop). Abir Mukherjee and Kim Sherwood are
both new names on the list. Abir with his thriller, Hunted, set in the run up to the US
presidential election and Kim with A
Spy Like Me which has been described as ‘Fleming for the 21st
century’. In other stats there are three women (Val, Kim and S G
Maclean), three members of the Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers (Val, Chris and Doug
Johnstone) and three men called Douglas.
The McIlvanney longlist and
the Bloody Scotland shortlist will be promoted in bookshops throughout Scotland
in the period between the announcement and the presentation at 6pm on Friday 13
September. The winners will both be interviewed on stage in the ballroom of The
Golden Lion by BBC presenter, Bryan Burnett.
Kirsty Nicholson, Glencairn
Crystal’s
Design and Marketing Manager, said:
“This is the fifth year we’ve sponsored the Bloody Scotland literary awards with the world’s favourite whisky glass – The Glencairn Glass – and it’s always incredibly exciting to find out who has made it onto the McIlvanney Prize longlist. We congratulate all the authors and wish them all the best of luck, and we look forward to seeing who wins in September. In the meantime, the summer holidays provide the perfect chance to relax and read your way through one or all of these excellent crime books!”
Design and Marketing Manager, said:
“This is the fifth year we’ve sponsored the Bloody Scotland literary awards with the world’s favourite whisky glass – The Glencairn Glass – and it’s always incredibly exciting to find out who has made it onto the McIlvanney Prize longlist. We congratulate all the authors and wish them all the best of luck, and we look forward to seeing who wins in September. In the meantime, the summer holidays provide the perfect chance to relax and read your way through one or all of these excellent crime books!”
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