 Photo by Alixe Buckerfield de la Roche, courtesy of Faber Books | | 56,811 (63,731) | 1,591 | 218 |  (3.63) | 220 | 0 | P. D. James, pseudonym of Phyllis Dorothy James White, was born on August 3, 1920 in Oxford, England. During World War II, she served as a Red Cross nurse. She worked in administration for 19 years with the National Health Service. After the death of her husband in 1964, she took a Civil Service examination and became an administrator in the forensic science and criminal law divisions of the Department of Home Affairs. She spent 30 years in British Civil Service. She became Baroness James of Holland Park in 1991. Her first novel, Cover Her Face, was published in 1962. She wrote approximately 20 books during her lifetime including the Adam Dalgliesh Mystery series, the Cordelia Gray Mystery series, and Death Comes to Pemberley. She became a full-time writer in 1979. Three titles in the Adam Dalgliesh Mystery series received the Silver Dagger award--Shroud for a Nightingale, The Black Tower, and A Taste for Death. In 2000, she published her autobiography, Time to Be in Earnest. Her dystopian novel, The Children of Men, was adapted into a movie in 2006. She received the Diamond Dagger award for lifetime achievement. She died on November 27, 2014 at the age of 94. (Bowker Author Biography) P. D. James served in the forensic & criminal justice departments of Great Britain's Home Office until her retirement in 1979. She was made a Life Peer in 1991. Her detective novels include "Cover Her Face", "An Unsuitable Job for a Woman", "Death of an Expert Witness", "A Taste for Death", "Original Sin", & "A Certain Justice", many of which have been adapted for television. Her autobiography, "Time to be in Earnest", was published in 2000. (Publisher Provided) — biography from Hijos de hombres … (más) |
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P. D. James tiene 13 eventos antiguos. (show)  Northshire Saratoga End of the World Reading Group The End of the World Reading Group will meet at the Around the Corner Cafe on February 25 at 6:30 pm to discuss The children of men by P.D. James. If you are a member of this reading group, please stop by The Northshire Bookstore to pick up your reserved copy of this title (and receive a 20% discount). We currently have so many excited readers that this group is full. For more information about the group or to be put on the waiting list please contact ReadingGroupsNY@northshire.com.
Location: Street: Around the Corner Cafe Additional: 422 Broadway City: Saratoga Springs, Province: New York Postal Code: 12866 Country: United States (añadidos desde IndieBound)… (más) Book Discussion: Fall Series  Mystery/Thriller  Book Discussion It's the End of the World As We Know It Book Club - discussing Children of Men Join Bosco and Alex the third Sunday of each month at 2PM as they discuss Post Apocalyptic Fiction.This limited run book club will cover all your favorites, eco-disasters, nuclear holocaust, zombie apocalypse and vampire plagues among other grand end of the world scenarios. Which book will reign supreme? Join them each month and help them decide. This month's book is Children of Men by P.D. James. Location: Street: 603 N Lamar Blvd City: Austin, Province: Texas Postal Code: 78703-5413 Country: United States (añadidos desde IndieBound)… (más)Sak - En Biografi Af Joakim Garff Kort om arrangementet: Interessen for Kierkegaard og hans værker har været i voldsom vækst de seneste årtier - også uden for landets grænser. Forklaringen skal bl.a. søges i hans dybtgående eksistensanalyser og profetiske fornemmelse for menneskets situation i en moderne, foranderlig verden. Men hvem var han mon egentlig, denne uudgrundelige magister, der i dag har opnået global navnkundighed, men selv aldrig nåede længere sydpå end til Berlin? Og hvordan kan man komme ind i hans forfatterskab - og nogenlunde helskindet ud igen? Foredraget forsøger sig med nogle svar og former sig derved som en biografisk introduktion til Kierkegaards forfatterskab og tankeverden. Efter foredraget står det enhver frit for at spørge om alt lige fra det absolutte paradoks til farven på Kierkegaards foretrukne paraply. Kort om kunsteren: Foredraget vil blive holdt af Joakim Garff (f. 1960), som i år 2000 skrev en biografi om Kierkegaard, - SAK - der er blevet en slags klassiker. Han er i det daglige lektor på Søren Kierkegaard Forskningscenteret.
Kort om temaet Kierkegaard: Mange mener, at den danske filosof, forfatter og debattør er mere aktuel end nogensinde. Men hvad er kernen i hans tænkning og omfattende forfatterskab? Det stiller vi skarpt på gennem denne række af foredrag, gennem comedy, og ved at give dig muligheden for selv at stifte bekendtskab med Kierkegaards tekster. Entré: 30 kr. i døren. 25 kr. i forsalg
Tor. d. 24. januar 2013, kl. 19.30-21. (Entré: 25 kr)
Valby Bibliotek, Annexstræde 2, Valby (amberwitch)… (más) An evening with 2012 Man Booker shortlisted author, Alison Moore at Walton library A writer’s dream has come true for Alison Moore. Her debut novel, The Lighthouse, has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012. Published by Salt Publishing, an independent publisher based in Norfolk, the novel is described as “thrilling”, “spare” and “unsettling” by various literary reviewers. It is the tale of an ordinary, inconspicuous man which shows how terrible things can happen in the most unexpected ways. It examines grief, loss, rejection and abandonment and the central question of the hurt involved in leaving and being left. The ending is “ambiguous”, “thrilling” and “brutal”.
Alison’s short stories have been published in various anthologies including Best British Short Stories 2011. She has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and the Scott Prize and won first prize in the novella category of the The New Writer Prose and Poetry Prizes.
She will be discussing her first novel, the impact of the Man Booker Prize shortlisting on her life and her writing and will be answering questions from the audience. (Rivendell)… (más)Club de lectura de novel·la negra P D James P D James opina sobre The Private Patient.P.D.James will be talking about her latest book 'The Private Patient' with Radio Cambridgeshire journalist Mandy Morton. (devenish)
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