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Lara Thompson on winning the first Virago/The Pool New Crime Writer Award
Lara Thompson talks Vietnamese food, secret writing and how it felt to win the first ‘Virago/The Pool New Crime Writer Award’. I was in my favourite Vietnamese restaurant, alone, with a spring roll poised between my lips and the plate, when I found out I’d won. Most of the day until that point…
Meet the winner of Virago/The Pool’s New Crime Writer Award
Meet the winner of Virago/The Pool’s New Crime Writer Award And read an extract from the 1930s Manhattan-set detective story that won lecturer Lara Thompson a book deal By Lily Peschardt – originally published on The Pool. We are delighted to announce that Virago and The Pool’s New Crime Writer Award is Lara Thompson for her…