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TOP AWARD FOR FOD'S ANDREW TAYLOR

27/11/2020

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​Great news for Forest of Dean author Andrew Taylor. His 2019 novel 'The King's Evil' has scooped the prestigious Historical Writers' Association top award, the HWA Gold Crown 2020. In making the award the judges wrote: “The winner, 'The King’s Evil' by Andrew Taylor, is rich in period detail, has great characters and we all unanimously loved it. Andrew Taylor gives you the genuine feeling of being transported back in time to the royal court of King Charles II where murder is afoot. With its rich and exuberant writing and wonderfully realised setting, 'The King’s Evil' is a thrilling, immersive ride.”
Andrew is no stranger to to such accolades for his work. His crime fiction in particular has seen him win the Crime Writers’ Association of Great Britain’s Historical Dagger Award three times (!), the Cartier Diamond Dagger, and the Golden Crowbar. His novel 'The American Boy' was chosen by The Times newspaper as one of the top ten crime novels of the decade.

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Andrew has lived in the Forest of Dean since 1982, and though he has never explicitly located any of his work in the Forest his Lydmotuh Series was set in a fictionalised region clearly inspired by local towns and landscape. Congratulations Andrew from all of us at Reading the Forest on this latest well deserved award!
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