Letters and manuscripts
Images
Explore photographs of P. D. James and her backlist in the archive
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
READ‘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
READ‘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
READ‘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
READ‘Ruth Rendell looks back on her 40-year friendship with her fellow crime novelist PD James’
The Guardian
READ‘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
READ‘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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