Barbara Hayes, Deputy Chief Executive of ALCS said: “ALCS is delighted to be sponsoring the prestigious Crime Writers’ Association’s Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction. We are committed to promoting writing of all types and are proud to be involved with the CWA in supporting a genre that has been inspirational to British authors and readers for so long.”

The Gold Dagger is an award is for any non-fiction work on a crime-related theme by an author of any nationality on condition that the book was first published in the UK in English during the judging period. Previous winners including Antonia Fraser, Jonathan Goodman, and Ruth Dudley Edwards.