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:
PJ V THE MIGHTY “BASHER” BASLEY
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…
The Crimes Literary Supplement: Would you kill to win the Booker Prize (Lizzy’s Literary Life)
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…
Award for rape film project (West Sussex County Times)
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…
Famous Brighton detective gets his own walk (The Argus)
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…
Author Peter James And Sidekick Track Seaside Crime (NPR Books)
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…
Desert Island Books: Peter James (The National)
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…
Independent Booksellers’ Week: authors’ favourite bookshops (The Guardian)
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…