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We are delighted that Peter James has been honoured with the Outstanding Brightonian award at the Brighton and Hove Business Awards 2021. Now in their fifteenth year, the awards showcase the best innovators, leaders and entrepreneurs in the city, and winners were announced at a ceremony on 24th June.
Peter James is the international bestselling author of many award-winning novels, repeatedly occupying the Number One slot on the Sunday Times bestseller charts in both hardback and paperback. Peter writes both thriller standalones and the hugely popular Brighton-set Roy Grace series, now adapted for ITV by screenwriter and ENDEAVOUR creator, Russell Lewis, with John Simm starring as the tenacious detective. GRACE garnered glowing praise and reviews from critics and fans alike and achieved consolidated UK viewing figures of 8.8 million. GRACE is also streaming in the US and Canada and other territories via Britbox and has been nominated for two National Television Awards.
Watch GRACE on ITV Hub now: https://www.itv.com/hub/grace/2a7610
Peter’s books have been translated into thirty-seven languages, with worldwide sales of over twenty million copies and his Roy Grace series, set in Brighton, has given him 18 consecutive Sunday Times Number Ones. In 2015 WH Smith customers voted him the Greatest Crime Author of All Time and in 2016 he was awarded the coveted CWA Diamond Dagger, a lifetime achievement award for sustained excellence. In 2018 he received a Specsavers Honorary Platinum Bestseller Award.
Successful nationwide tours of the stage plays of THE PERFECT MURDER (2014), DEAD SIMPLE (2015,) NOT DEAD ENOUGH (2017) and THE HOUSE ON COLD HILL (2019) have packed theatres in dozens of British cities, and garnered magnificent reviews. LOOKING GOOD DEAD will tour in the UK from August 2021, ending its run in Brighton in October 2021. See more details about theatres and tickets here. Several of his works are optioned for film.
In addition to his work in the creative industries, Peter pursues many other interests and extensive charity work, including becoming Patron of the RSPCA Brighton branch earlier this year.
Praise for Peter James
‘Superior plotting and edge-of-the-seat suspense.’ – The Guardian
‘Peter James is one of the best crime writers in the business’ – Karin Slaughter
‘A master plotter who cunningly tunes into contemporary concerns. Peter James cannot fail to thrill.’ – Daily Mail
‘Memorable characters and nail-biting tension.’ – Kathy Reichs
‘Peter James creates a world we can smell, touch and feel for his Brighton detective Inspector Roy Grace.’ – The Times
‘Probably the closest we’ll get to a British Stephen King’ – The Financial Times
‘With echoes of Thomas Harris, the closer analogue is to Jeffrey Deaver’s clock-racing thrillers. … James delivers the goods.’ — Kirkus Reviews
‘James just gets better and better and deserves the success he has achieved with this first-class series.’ — Independent on Sunday
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