We all have those moments when we really would like the ground to open up and disappear us whole! Well, I do, at any rate, with alarming frequency… My latest was earlier this month in Paris, where I had gone to receive my award, Le Prix Coeur Noir. I was staying at the Plaza Athénée…
A couple of blog mentions of winning Le Prix Coeur Noir – Macmillan CEO Richard Charkin chips in with Vive Le Anglais! while Mark Farley, of my favourite London bookstore, Waterstones in Notting Hill Gate, very kindly says Congrats Crime Master. If you’ve seen – or write! – a blog that’s mentioned me or my…
I’m absolutely thrilled to have won the French prize Le Prix Coeur Noir. Here’s some pics from the awards ceremony and the slighty cheeky press release! French beaten on home turf for major literary prize by plucky Brit Crime novelist Peter James wins prestigious Prix Coeur Noir British Author Peter James has been awarded the…
So, could you fall in love with a city where this ugly looking crustacean is the local and very seriously expensive, speciality? It’s called a Moreton Bay Bug. Although it doest actually taste a lot better than that other Melbourne speciality – flies… Morton Bay Bug You’ve all seen those comic Aussie hats with corks…
Reluctantly leaving New Zealand (blog on which to follow) where I’ve been treated wonderfully, and the amazing Pennys’s bookstore who put on the best window display for my books I’ve ever seen – spot all the artefacts from Dead Simple – the shovel, the whisky bottle, the walkie talkie, etc… and the CDs from Looking…
Currently in Australia on a tour to promote Looking Good Dead, with New Zealand next up. (You can see my full public appearance schedule here if you’re interested). There was a nice clipping in the New Zealand press which explains my upcoming appearance in Hamilton (you can read it here), and Linda at Penny’s Bookstore…
So I’m just back from a glorious week in the ski resort of Courmayeur, high in the Italian Alps, where I was President of the film jury at the Courmayeur In Noir film and book festival. Sounds grand, “President”, but actually (as the pic shows) the reason I got voted President is because I was…
I was put up as a dinner date by the German crime-writing website Krimi Couch – they held a national competition centred around the promotion of the hardback launch of Looking Good Dead (Stirb Schon) in Germany this autumn, and the luck (or unlucky, depending how you look at it…) winner got to have a…
Today I heard the brilliant news that the paperback of Looking Good Dead has gone to No 2 on the Sunday Times bestseller list. And… we sold almost 10,000 copies more than Jeffrey Archer, which gives me almost as much pleasure… And in addition we are No 1 in Tesco – the UK’s largest supermarket…
I attended the Royal Premiere of Casino Royale last Tuesday, courtesy of my very charming Swedish cousin, Erik Olsson, a Bond fanatic (see the two of us downing an appropriate tipple at the pre-screening party). It’s always a levelling experience to walk along that red carpet across Leicester Square, all dressed up. You are aware…