Simon Lewis : Writer

News

April 2010

Simon Lewis will attend the FIRN International Festival for Roman Noir in Frontignan, France, 25-28 June.

April 2010

Bad traffic (Trafic Sordide) has been shortlisted for the 'Prix SNCF du Polar' in France.

April 2010

Bad Traffic has been shortlisted for the 'readers prize' category at the Villeneuve les Avignon festival of crime fiction.

March 2010

Simon Lewis's Bad Traffic is to be published in Turkey.

Feb 2010

Simon Lewis's crime drama, DIP, will be filmed in late February, and will be shown on Channel 4 in the Autumn.

Feb 2010

Simon Lewis's Bad Traffic has been selected as one of the best crime novels of 2008 by The Times online.

Jan 2010

Updated blog. Simon Lewis's travel article in The China Daily.

Nov 2009

Simon Lewis will hold a crime writing workshop at Criminal Intent, a Crime Writing Conference in Abergavenny, Wales.

May 2009

Simon Lewis' backpacker novel- GO will be re-released in Germany in April 2010.

April 2009

Simon will be reading from Bad Traffic at London's Eastside Bookshop on Saturday 18th April, and will be talking in a panel at the LA Times Book Festival on the 25th of April.

March 2009

Bad Traffic has been shortlisted for the LA Times Book Prize.

February 2009

It's the last week of voting- Ending on Friday 27 February
To register first and then vote for Bad Traffic by Simon Lewis.

January 2009

'Bad Traffic' has made the final shortlist of ten books for the 'Spread the Word' world book day promotion.
Clicking here will take you to the website, where you can vote for Bad Traffic to win, and maybe win yourself some book tokens.

December 2008

The 'spread the word' vote will close on January 2, and apparently it's very close.
Click here to vote for Simon's book!

October 2008

Bad Traffic has been selected as one of 'fifty great books to talk about' for the 'spread the word' promotion for world book day.Ten of these are selected as winners by a popular vote.
Click here to vote!

August 2008

Bad Traffic is to be published in Japan by Random house Kodansha.

July 2008

Bad Traffic is to be published in Italy by Baldini, Castlodi, Dalai.

June 2008

Bad Traffic reviewed in the
Irish Independent.

May 2008

Simon is in the Guardian newspaper, 27th of May, as one of the 'HAY 21' writers.

April 2008

Simon is on the 'HAY 21' list; 21 'writers to watch out for' at the Hay Festival.

April 2008

Simon is talking at the Hay Festival on Sunday the 1st of June: Tickets on sale now.

April 2008

April 2008

"Following Chinese points of view in a thriller set in the UK is inspired writing. Bad Traffic is a honey: suspense that never loses its grip."
--Elmore Leonard

April 2008

Bad Traffic is to be translated into French and Swedish, and it's being published in the US this Autumn.

Mar 2008

Simon is going to talk on Radio Wales on Thursday, March 27, at around 7pm.

Feb 2008

Feb 2008

Bad Traffic reviewed in the
Independent, Observer, Guardian, Daily Mail, Telegraph, and Times, among others.

Jan2008

Two online interviews:
Simon talks to Out Loud, the Yorkshire Post books podcast, and is interviewed by Sheena Hastings for the print edition; see under 'Latest' for links.

17 May 2008

Lecture: 'World Cities: Shanghai' Frances Wood, Lauren Parker and Simon Lewis
14:00-16:30
Introducing the arts, history and culture of Shanghai, in association with a V and A exhibition.