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Emily Koch is an award-winning journalist and author.
Emily Koch | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | British |
| Genre | |
| Notable works | If I Die Before I Wake, Keep Him Close |
| Website | |
| www | |
Novels
[edit]Koch's debut novel If I Die Before I Wake was shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award in 2018[1]. It was also longlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award, selected as a Waterstones Thriller of the Month[1], and was one of Waterstones’ top paperbacks of 2019[2]. It was a top 20 bestseller in the UK.[3]
Her second novel Keep Him Close came out in 2020. After its publication, Waterstones called Koch ‘One of the most exciting new crime writers of our day.’[4]
Journalism career
[edit]Koch worked as a journalist for eight years before her first novel was published.[5]
In 2012, she was named Young Journalist of the Year at the Regional Press Awards[6][7]. Koch, who was working for the Bristol Post at the time, won the award thanks to an exclusive interview with the best friend of murdered landscape architect Jo Yeates and an expose revealing that a former henchman of Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe had been working in a Bristol care home.[6]
List of works
[edit]- If I Die Before I Wake (Harvill Secker, 2018)
- Keep Him Close (Harvill Secker, 2020)
References
[edit]- ^ a b Murray, Robin (8 December 2019). "Bristol author reveals details of second novel". BristolLive. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
- ^ "Author Emily Koch: 'I'm not angry at the driver who broke my legs'". BBC News. 8 January 2020. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
- ^ Sharman, David. "Ex-Bristol Post staffer Emily Koch's If I Die Before I Wake on sale - Journalism News from HoldtheFrontPage". HoldtheFrontPage. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
- ^ "Keep Him Close by Emily Koch | Waterstones". www.waterstones.com. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
- ^ "Emily Koch". www.bathspa.ac.uk. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
- ^ a b Linford, Paul. "Mugabe scoop earns young journalist prize - Journalism News from HoldtheFrontPage". HoldtheFrontPage. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
- ^ "NCTJ award-winner crowned Young Journalist of the Year". www.nctj.com. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
External links
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Category:Living people Category:British crime writers Category:21st-century British novelists Category:British women novelists Category:Women mystery writers Category:21st-century British women writers Category:Year of birth missing (living people)