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The lighthouse book pd james
The lighthouse book pd james










the lighthouse book pd james

She won awards for crime writing in Britain, America, Italy and Scandinavia, including the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award and The National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Literature (US). She was an Honorary Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple. She was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Society of Arts and served as a Governor of the BBC, a member of the Arts Council, where she was Chairman of the Literary Advisory Panel, on the Board of the British Council and as a magistrate in Middlesex and London.

the lighthouse book pd james

All that experience was used in her novels. 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. James (1920-2014) was born in Oxford and educated at Cambridge High School for Girls. Series: Inspector Adam Dalgliesh Mystery.In 1997 she was elected President of the Society of Authors, stepping down from the post in August 2013. She received honorary degrees from seven British universities, was awarded an OBE in 1983 and was created a life peer in 1991.












The lighthouse book pd james