For Adults
To celebrate our new editions of P. D. James’s bestselling Adam Dalgliesh mystery series, we’re offering 3 reading groups the opportunity to win paperback copies of Devices and Desires to read and review.
Please apply by emailing phoebe.williams@faber.co.uk, including a note about why your group would be interested in reading and reviewing Devices and Desires. The deadline for applications is 21 November.
If you’re successful, we’d love to hear what your group thinks about the book and for you to share your reviews on key retailer sites.
ABOUT THE BOOK
When Commander Adam Dalgliesh visits Larksoken, a remote headland community on the Norfolk coast in the shadow of a nuclear power station, he expects to be engaged only in the sad business of tying up his late aunt’s estate. A serial killer known as ‘the Whistler’ has been terrorising the area – but it isn’t his case. He isn’t going to get involved.
Then, not far from his aunt’s home, he stumbles on a body. Unable now to keep his distance, he must navigate not only the looming weight of the power station’s influential leaders but his aunt’s friends and neighbours – all of whom could be suspects – if he wants to help the local police understand this latest crime.
But could there really be more than one murderer here?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
P. D. James (1920-2014) was a bestselling and internationally acclaimed crime writer best known for her books starring poet-detective Adam Dalgliesh. She wrote nineteen novels as well as several short story collections and works of non-fiction. Her work has been translated into thirty-six languages, and has sold millions of copies worldwide. Among many international prizes, awards and honours, she received the highest honours in both British and American crime writing: the CWA Diamond Dagger for a lifetime contribution to the genre, and the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award. She was inducted into the Crime Writing Hall of Fame in 2008.
Beyond her writing, she worked in the National Health Service and then in the Home Office for over thirty years, first in the Police Department and later in the Criminal Policy Department, and made use of all this experience in her novels. She served as president of the Society of Authors for sixteen years, and was a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Society of Arts. In 1983 she was awarded an OBE, and she was made a life peer in 1991. She died in 2014.
