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Letters and manuscripts

P. D. James’ speech on Agatha Christie
In Praise of Books by P. D. James
P. D. James’ Introduction to Devices and Desires

Images

Explore photographs of P. D. James and her backlist in the archive
Death of an Expert Witness
Innocent Blood
Shroud for a Nightingale
The Black Tower
P. D. James’ Omnibus
Cover Her Face
P. D. James with her publishers
A Mind to Murder
Devices and Desires
The Skull Beneath the Skin
Death in Holy Orders
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
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P. D. James book signing
P. D. James, The Skull Beneath the Skin
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P. D. James at Marylebone Underground Station
P. D. James photographed by Jane Bown
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P. D. James signing books
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P. D. James and Roy Marsden on location
P. D. James with actor Roy Marsden
P. D. James 1978
P. D. James aged 12
P. D. James photographed by Jane Bown

Audio

Desert Island Discs: P. D. James

The Black Tower by P. D. James, read by Penelope Dellaporta

Front Row: P. D. James

BBC Book Club: P. D. James

Death Comes to Pemberley: An Extract Read by P. D. James

P. D. James: A Life in Crime

P. D. James: Death Comes to Pemberley

P. D. James a celebration

Jenny Agutter reads from P. D. James’ The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories

Video

Devices and Desires of an Author

Children of Men Official Trailer

Death Comes to Pemberley: Trailer

P. D. James Q&A

P. D. James : Edinburgh International Book Festival 2001

P. D. James in conversation with Colin Dexter

The Mind of the Maker – P. D. James speaks at St Paul’s Cathedral

P. D. James and Ruth Rendell On Morality in Crime Fiction

PD James: ‘Some people find conventions liberating’

Jennifer Byrne Presents P. D. James

Death Comes to Pemberley book trailer

P. D. James on Jane Austen and Death Comes to Pemberley

Articles about P. D. James

Selected manuscripts of some of P. D. James’s work, together with some research notes and correspondence.

Cambridge Archives

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‘During more than 50 years as an author, her books showed an elegance of characterisation and an aptitude for capturing atmosphere that blurred distinctions between classic detective stories and the conventional novel.’

The Daily Telegraph

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‘Phyllis attended to detail and knew about chemistry and the nature of poisons and stabbings. She was always in control and always knew where she was going and what would happen.’

The Guardian

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‘She could evoke the most extraordinary places, when you read her books it was that that you were drawn to, and out of that were these extraordinary characters.’

The Daily Mail

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‘Ruth Rendell looks back on her 40-year friendship with her fellow crime novelist PD James’

The Guardian

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‘In her 1999 book, Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography, P. D. James recalls the moment she discovered she was to be a published author.’

Faber.co.uk

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‘Phyllis had a deft way with the horrific, creating images that seared their way into the reader’s brain’

The Guardian

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‘Looking back on my life I do know myself to be greatly blessed… And I have my work. I shall continue to write detective stories as long as I can write well… It gives pleasure to me and thousands of readers. No other justification is needed.’

P. D. James, Time to Be in Earnest

‘With the detective story there is horror – I think one needs to make the murder realistic. But I think the main attraction isn’t the horror, it’s the puzzle, the bringing of order out of disorder.’

P. D. James

‘That is the thing I always will most remember about her: what a kind woman she was, how she did her very best to make you feel good.’

Ruth Rendell on P. D. James

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