Birthday Book of the Day: “I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations: books, music, food, wine, nature.”

Today is the 96th birthday of the UK author P.D. James (1920-2014), best known for the series of crime novels featuring Detective Inspector Adam Dalgliesh, as well as her triumphant 90th-year recasting of Jane Austen’s Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy in Death Comes to Pemberley.

We celebrate her life and work with one another of her later-career books:

James, P.D., The Children of Men (Alfred A. Knopf, 1st American edition, 1993). ISBN 0-679-41873-3. Best known for her Adam Dalgliesh detective novels, James surprised and delighted readers when, at 73, she produced a dystopian sci fi novel in which all the men of England became infertile in 1995. in 2021 things were rapidly unraveling socially, and Oxford don Theodore Faron found himself drawn into the thick of the coming fray. Made into a 2006 film with Clive Owen. Hardcover, unclipped dustjacket, as new. 241 pp. HBB price: $50 obo.

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