‘Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.’
‘Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports.’
‘It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.’
As part of our celebrations for the centenary of P. D. James’ birth, author of the Josephine Tey novels Nicola Upson shares her memories of the crime writing icon. There’s a pen pot on my desk that means the world to me, a mug in the shape of a rabbit’s face, with eyes that […]
Monday 3 August will mark what would have been the 100th birthday of P. D. James, whom Faber published for over fifty years following the publication of her first novel, Cover Her Face, in 1962. In celebration of this centenary, Faber will publish, for the first time in book form, her short story ‘The […]
This is a very sad day for us at Faber. It is difficult to express our profound sadness at losing P. D. James, one of the world’s great writers and a Faber author since her first publication in 1962. She was so very remarkable in every aspect of her life, an inspiration and great friend […]