P. D. James, author portrait

P. D. James

P. D. JAMES (1920-2014) published nineteen novels, two works of non-fiction, a memoir, and many distinguished essays. Most of her novels have been broadcast on television, and The Children of Men was the basis for an award-winning film. From 1949 to 1968 she worked in the National Health Service and subsequently in the Home Office, first in the Police Department and later in the Criminal Policy Department. She was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts. Her commitment to public service included serving as a Governor of the BBC, on the Board of the British Council, and as a magistrate in Middlesex and London. She was an Honorary Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, and was elected President of the Society of Authors. She received honorary degrees from seven British universities, was awarded an OBE in 1983, and was created a life peer in 1991 as Baroness James of Holland Park.
A Certain Justice
Sleep No More
The Mistletoe Murder
Death Comes to Pemberley
Talking About Detective Fiction
The Private Patient
Original Sin
The Skull Beneath the Skin
Innocent Blood
Death of an Expert Witness
The Black Tower
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
Shroud for a Nightingale
A Mind to Murder
Unnatural Causes
Cover Her Face
Death in Holy Orders
The Lighthouse
The Children of Men
A Taste for Death
The Murder Room
Devices and Desires
Time to Be in Earnest

Books

A Certain Justice
Sleep No More
The Mistletoe Murder
Death Comes to Pemberley
Talking About Detective Fiction
The Private Patient
Original Sin
The Skull Beneath the Skin
Innocent Blood
Death of an Expert Witness
The Black Tower
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
Shroud for a Nightingale
A Mind to Murder
Unnatural Causes
Cover Her Face
Death in Holy Orders
The Lighthouse
The Children of Men
A Taste for Death
The Murder Room
Devices and Desires
Time to Be in Earnest

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