SEVEN PLOTS IN ALL OF LITERATURE… (Metro)
Ian Rankin, who I like a lot and really respect, made this amusing comment about me in his interview in yesterday’s Metro newspaper:
Ian Rankin, who I like a lot and really respect, made this amusing comment about me in his interview in yesterday’s Metro newspaper:
I bet not many of you know I had a past as a boxer! Well, here is an account of my last fight, aged thirteen and a half, which I have relived to help save its venue for the residents of the area. For all those of you who might like to make a donation/buy…
Venue: County Halls, Stirling Date: Saturday 15th September Occasion: The inaugural Bloody Scotland Crime Writing Festival From left to right: In the red corner: Literary critics: Stuart Kelly and Professor Willy Maley Referee / Chair: Nick Barley, Director of the Edinburgh Book Festival In the blue corner: Crime Writers extraordinaire: Ian Rankin and Peter James…
A best-selling crime author says he is thrilled and honoured with an award from Sussex Police for a film he created exposing the dangers of rape to school children. Peter James – who lives near Henfield and is best known for his Roy Grace detective series – has won the Sussex Police Outstanding Public Service…
By Neil Vowles11:30am Thursday 9th August 2012 Book lovers are being given the chance to follow in the footsteps of a fictional detective on the trail of a murderer round Brighton and Hove. For the first time ever, fans of bestselling crime novelist Peter James will be able to take a tour of the sites…
Listen to the storyMorning Edition [7 min 20 sec] Correction Aug. 7, 2012Earlier Web versions of this story, as well as the audio, included a description of a scene in one of Peter James’ books, and gave the wrong title of the book in which the scene is included. Any tour of Brighton, England, has…
Carla McKay Jul 22, 2012 We speak with the author Peter James to get his recommendations for the best books to take to a desert island. Peter James is a crime thriller writer who has enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame in the past few years during which he has sold more than 11 million…
guardian.co.uk, Friday 6 July 2012 12.41 BST. The pressures on independent bookshops show no sign of relenting – more than 200 have closed since 2009 leaving only 1094 still trading this year. The annual celebration Independent Booksellers’ Week has seen a range of initiatives around the UK, from a crime writers’ festival at London’s Goldsboro…