File contains the following:
P D James, ‘The Art of the Detective Novel’ (an edited version of a talk given at the Hay-on-Wye Festival of Literature, 28 May 1989), 2002;
‘Edge of Darkness’: an interview with Ginny Dougary, illustrated with photographs [publication unknown], [2003];
Short item from the Telegraph magazine, with full page colour photograph, shortly before the publication of 'The Murder Room' [2003];
Benedicte Page, ‘With benefit of hindsight: crime writer P D James talks about producing bestsellers in her eighties’, from The Bookseller, 2 May 2003;
P D James, ‘My Favourite Book: A Taste for Death’, 2004. Two page typescript. Written for Quality Paperback Book Club, New York;
P D James, foreword for John le Carré’s ‘Call for the Dead'. 3 page typescript. 2004;
P D James, introduction to G K Chesterton’s ‘The Father Brown Stories’. 8 page typescript. 2004;
P D James, ‘Why Detection?’: for the Guardian Paperback Writer column. 3 page typescript, 2004, together with published article, 6 March 2004;
Geordie Greig, ‘Knock ‘em dead’: article on P D James from Tatler, illustrated with colour photographs [2005];
Rosita Boland, ‘One last job?’: article on P D James published shortly before the publication of ‘The Lighthouse’, in the Irish Times Magazine, 5 November 2005, illustrated with colour photograph;
‘The skill beneath the skin: The successful crime novelist and member of the House of Lords talks to Jan Dalley about the darkness that runs throughout her writing’, from the Financial Times, December 3-4 2005. Illustrated with colour photograph;
Short biopics of three crime writers, including P D James [circa 2005, publication unknown];
Excerpts from a speech by P D James on the necessity of literature, published online by the Mystery Guild Book Club, 2006;
‘Dalgliesh retorna nas palavras da baronesa’ [Dalgliesh returns in the words of the Baroness]: interview with P D James from the Brazilian newspaper O Globo, 21 August 2009, at the time of publication in Brazil of ‘Paciente Particular’ [The Private Patient]. In Portuguese;
Sam Jones, ‘Torpedo alert for BBC: P D James out to scupper unwieldy ship;’, from the Guardian 1 January 2010, illustrated with colour photograph;
Letter from Anna Ford to The Guardian, 1 January 2010, praising P D James’ performance as guest editor of the Today programme and citing it as evidence that the BBC should be employing more women over 50;
‘A most cheerful twister of the knife’: a profile of P D James subtitled ‘The queen of crime fiction may be amiable but her forensic mind can be deadly - as the head of the BBC has just found to his cost’, from The Sunday Times 3 January 2010, illustrated with a colour cartoon of PDJ.