Peter James
Peter James
Peter Jamesis an international best-selling British writer of crime fiction. He was born in Brighton, the son of Cornelia James, the former glovemaker to Queen Elizabeth II...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 August 1948
CityBrighton, England
book america research
I travel abroad constantly on book promotion and research, and the Internet is invaluable to me for accessing U.K. news in places such as America, which most of the time hasn't heard of England.
bad public
The police feel that most of the public are against them and that there is a lot of bad feeling.
wine beer grace
Branson ate his salad, and left the rest of his fish untouched, while Grace tucked into his steak and kidney pudding with relish. 'I read a while ago,' he told Branson, 'that the French drink more red wine than the English but live longer. The Japanese eat more fish than the English but drink less wine and live longer. The Germans eat more red meat than the English, and drink more beer and they live longer too. You know the moral of this story? 'No' 'It's not what you eat or drink - it's speaking English that kills you.
people world
The world is changing and people don't like change.
careers lines officers
Almost every officer is going to put their life on the line at some point in their career.
book giving new-work
I get asked to read new works a lot, in the hope that I will give a quotation and I will only give a 'puff' for a book I truly love.
writing important process
Music is an important part of my writing process.
sunday unique thinking
A news junkie, I read, daily, the 'Times/Sunday Times,' the 'Guardian/Observer,' 'Mail,' and the 'Argus' - both to keep up with crime in Brighton, where I set my novels, and because I think it is vital to support local papers - they provide a unique accountability for councils, emergency services and so much else, and are dangerously undervalued.
iphone world radio
My day starts with Radio 4's Today live or 'listen again' wherever I am in the world, thanks to digital radio - I even have an app on my iPhone that receives it.
military years police
There's a really classic cliche every time you switch the TV on - you see cops arguing. I have spent a day a week for many years in the presence of police and I have never seen them argue. It's a military hierarchy. They do what they're told. There's no bickering.
divine reviews humans
To read is human, to review is divine.
ideas serendipity different
Most of us have one big idea at some point in our lives. That Eureka! moment. It comes to us all in different ways, often by chance of serendipity.
bridges worry golden
Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning.
brain body bed
Sometimes the body gets out of bed an hour before the brain.