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Join the @guardian's book club this month where they'll be reading P. D. James's acclaimed novel, A Taste for Death, featuring detective Adam Dalgliesh embroiled in a secretive and unhappy aristocratic family #PDJames100
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In commemoration of the Queen of Crime, we’ve released a special ebook edition of THE PART-TIME JOB! 🎉 We can’t think of a better way to celebrate #PDJames100 *and* our holiday Monday than curled up with this perfect one-sitting read 😉 https://t.co/PBcbTRSXQW
“We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.”
― P.D. James #BOTD in 1920
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Today we remember RSL Fellow P.D. James on what would have been her 100th Birthday. Born 3 August 1920, she was one of the UK’s most prolific crime writers.
Read her discussion with Ruth Rendell on crime writing since Agatha Christie here:
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Today is 100 years since the birth of the crime writer P D James. ‘The Children of Men’ features on the BBC’s 100 Novels that Shaped our World, and is available to reserve from Cambridgeshire Libraries.
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For today's P. D. James Centennial, one of my favourite author photos, by Dudley Reed
bromide print on card mount, 1983
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P. D. James reads Dorothy Sayers’ Have His Carcase
Michael Putland, 1982
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"I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, the liking of a pattern."
Celebrate the P. D. James Centennial! #PDJames100
Michael Taylor
oil on canvas, 1996
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Wise words from the inimitable P.D. James #PDJames100
'We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.'
We're delighted to be celebrating P. D. James's centenary today #PDJames100
Are you a super sleuth or a rookie detective? Take this quiz and test your knowledge on the ‘Queen of Crime’ #PDJames100
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Today should have been Phyllis’s 100th birthday, and what a party that would have been! I miss her laughter and her wisdom, but still so much to celebrate - in her work, and in so many happy memories. #PDJames100
'Her wisdom was extraordinary, her kindness instinctive and unsentimental.'
@nicolaupsonbook shares her memories of the crime writing icon #PDJames100
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‘Though thoroughly unsentimental, she was also a romantic, and well into old age retained from history lessons mental images of snow falling on the coffin of Charles I . . .’ || Maggie Fergusson remembers P. D. James in #SlightlyFoxed Issue 52
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'We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.'
We're delighted to be celebrating P. D. James's centenary today #PDJames100
The final revelation in my 2000 interview with PD James was about whether she could actually murder someone herself. Murder? No. Manslaughter? Yes.
However... “I think if I did commit murder, that I would probably do it successfully.”
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Among the many things I loved discovering about PD James was her singular planning method: “The place always come first.” #PDJames100
Here’s my interview with the late PD James from BOOK magazine back in 2000. #PDJames100 (I also took the photo!)
Here is a reading guide featuring some of the highlights of P. D. James’s extensive writing career, there is truly something for everyone #PDJames100
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‘I don't think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us.’
Wise words from the 'Queen of Crime' #PDJames100
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