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P. D. James

P. D. James (1920-2014) was born in Oxford 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 was used in her novels. She was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Society of Arts and 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...

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Members Q&A: Barbara Kingsolver

The renowned author of The Poisonwood Bible answers questions posed by Faber Members.

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Editor to Author: An interview with Edna O’Brien

Edna O'Brien has a frank and illuminating conversation about writing her novel The Little Red Chairs with her Faber editor …

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Members Q&A: Peter Carey

Twice Booker Prize Winner, Peter Carey, takes questions from Faber Members across the world.

Editor to Author: An interview with Nadeem Aslam

In this long-read interview, Nadeem Aslam discusses The Golden Legend, his brave, timely, searingly beautiful novel set in contemporary Pakistan.

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