>READING THE ELLIS PETERS AWARD SHORTLIST UPDATE

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My excellent and completely reliable source tells me that I am wrong, I frequently am.

Although the rest of the CWA Daggers will be awarded on 21 October, the Ellis Peters Historical Award announcement is on the 29 October.

The Ellis Peters is sponsored by the estate of Ellis Peters, Hodder and Little, Brown; the others are involved with sponsorship from Specsavers, Cactus TV and ITV3 and have a glitzy award ceremony.

On with my reading, next up The Redemption of Alexander Seaton by Shona MacLean, the only book on the short list not connected with the Second World War, because it is set in Scotland in 1626. Unfortunately not in a time of peace as there was a major war going on in Europe at the time, The Thirty Years War.