Philippa Dowding's Blog - Posts Tagged "pd-james"

I have a guilty literary pleasure: every January, I read a PD James novel. It started a long time ago, in 1986, when I saw Northrop Frye buying a PD James novel in the World's Biggest Bookstore.

Hey, if PD James was good enough for Northrop Frye ...

There's plenty of restorative tea, rolling English countryside and eccentric villagers, more than enough to hold back a dark January night. Over the years, Baroness James has also become a literary hero: she published well into her 90s, and wrote for over 50 years.

A tough, talented writer! This month's read? An Adam Dalgleish novel, #12, The Murder Room. If anyone needs me, I'll be lost in New Scotland Yard ...

Here's a longer blog post: http://phdowding.blogspot.ca/2017/01/...