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Death Comes to Pemberley
by James, P. D
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0571283578
- ISBN 13
- 9780571283576
- Seller
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Synopsis
P. D. JAMES was born in Oxford in 1920 and educated at Cambridge High School for Girls. 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. All that experience has been used in her novels. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Society of Arts and has 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. She is an Honorary Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple. She has 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 has received honorary degrees from seven British universities, was awarded an OBE in 1983, and was created a life peer in 1991. In 1997 she was elected President of the Society of Authors. She lives in London and Oxford and has two daughters, five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
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Details
- Bookseller
- JKMayotte
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50920049
- Title
- Death Comes to Pemberley
- Author
- James, P. D
- Format/Binding
- Blk boards w gilt titles, red eps
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0571283578
- ISBN 13
- 9780571283576
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2011
- Keywords
- Death comes Pemberley, P.D. James
- Bookseller catalogs
- fiction / mystery & detective / general;
- Size
- Octavo
Terms of Sale
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