The Dream Reprint Award 2025 – Off We Go!

So the other day, my blogging buddy Kate, over at Cross Examining Crime, sounded me out over a new experiment. You may well be aware that she runs the Reprint Of The Year award. Well, on the suggestion of Neeru, from A Hot Cup Of Pleasure, she’s decided to run the Dream Reprint Of The Year poll.

And what, pray tell, is the Dream Reprint? Well, it’s the book that hasn’t been reprinted in a while that, quite frankly, needs to be. But there are some rules…

I should say, this is all set out in some detail on Kate’s announcement page – let’s face it, I’m going to forget a detail or three, so if there’s anything different between what I say and what’s on the official page, well, she’s right and I’m wrong. But basically, we’re asking for people to nominate books that they’ve read in 2025 that they feel need to be brought to a wider audience. Bear in mind that our blogs are read by people who work for the publishers who reprint this sort of thing, so you never know, dreams might come true?

Who can take part? Anyone who has read an appropriate book.

What’s an appropriate book? Apart from you reading it in 2025, it needs to have been initial published before 1970 (so I can’t nominate Invisible Green, for example) and it must be currently out of print and not reprinted after 2015 (so that excludes The Wooden Overcoat, which I definitely would have nominated [SARCASM ALERT!])

How do I nominate? Well, if you’re a book blogger – well done – then you post a nomination post on Saturday 7^th February. If you’re not a book blogger – and why not? – then put your nomination, with a little smidge of justification, on one of the nomination posts, this post or, ideally, Kate’s post. You’ll have a week to do this.

And then you get to vote, when Kate runs a poll. Simple.

And what am I nominating? Well, I haven’t decided yet. Maybe Beware Your Neighbour by Miles Burton. Maybe Lewker in Tirol or Lewker In Norway by Glyn Carr. Into Thin Air by Winslow & Quirk? Death Of A Peeping Tom by Belton Cobb? Twice Dead by John Rhode? The Organ Speaks by E C R Lorac? When The Devil Was Sick by Carol Carnac? How Doth The Little Crocodile by Peter Anthony? The Case Of The Gilded Lily by Erle Stanley Gardner? Maybe even The Mystery Of The Trail Of Terror by M V Carey?