The Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) has announced the author lineup and programming for MOTIVE presented by Kobo Plus, Canada's newest and largest crime and mystery writing festival, taking place June 3 to 5, 2022 based at Harbourfront Centre.
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Small-scale fisheries (SSF) have the potential to achieve true sustainable development for participants in the sector. SSF encompasses fisheries that are generally run by households using relatively small vessels, limited investments, and small amounts of energy. They usually make short fishing trips near to shore for fish that are consumed or sold locally. United Nations,
Fisheries and Their Contribution to Sustainable Development: Small-Scale and Artisanal Fisheries 2 (2020). Worldwide, SSFs land half of all fish used as human food.
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SSFs are hugely important in developing countries, where 90% of fishery workers are in the SSF sector, almost half of whom are women. World Bank,
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Debut authors have had quite a battle on their hands this year. With bookshops closing in lockdown and festivals being cancelled all over the place, it’s been hard to get their work out to the reading public. But Crime Fiction Lover has your back, debutants – and we’ve sifted through our 2020 reviews list to come up with the best of the bunch.
5 – The Hunted by Gabriel Bergmoser
Aussie crime writing is going from strength to strength and to prove it, there are two Antipodean authors featured in this selection. First up is Gabriel Bergmoser, a YA writer whose first foray into adult crime fiction is a cracker. This tale of feral goings-on in the Australian outback grips from the first page, and is not for the faint-hearted, but The Hunted is a thrilling, bloody and totally gripping read that has already been snapped up by the movie-makers. Bergmoser is a name to look out for! Read our review here.
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Most readers want the same basic elements from their crime fiction: an engaging plot; enough momentum to sustain the plot; well-developed characters; some misdirection; and a satisfying ending.
This year my top five favourites not only had all the essential elements, they all included a strong sense of place, a pinch of dark humour, or both. Maybe the lockdown situation had me longing for a different setting and the gloomy state of the world required some twisted and humorous crime reading. Who knows?
Make no mistake, choosing five was no easy task. Despite, or maybe because of the pandemic, we’ve seen some brilliant books and they should all be on this list. As usual, most of my reading is translated fiction and it’s also reflected in these five books.