Debut historical novel short-listed

Carolyn Kirby’s historical novel The Conviction of Cora Burns has been short-listed for this year’s inaugural Specsavers Debut Crime Novel Award.

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Carolyn Kirby

Carolyn Kirby

Carolyn Kirby studied history at Oxford University and novel writing at Faber Academy. Her novel Half of You, a thriller set in 1880’s Birmingham, follows its troubled protagonist’s search for the roots of her scarred personality amidst the origins psychiatry and new ideas about &lsqu...More about Carolyn Kirby