Our spectacular series of literary legends continues with the bestselling crime master Peter James! Peter has written 19 Sunday Times number 1's, selling over 21 million books worldwide, with his Roy Grace series of books, including Want You Dead and Picture You Dead, turned into a hit ITV drama starring John Simm. His latest novel is Stop Them Dead. We talked to him about cleaning for Orson Welles, calling Kurt Vonnegut out of the blue, the scariest book he's ever read and writing to Enid Blyton about her characters' toilet habits!

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BOOKS

Peter James - Stop them Dead

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

RL Stine - Goosebumps

Roald Dahl - The Twits

Enid Blyton - Five on a Treasure Island

Peter James - Dead Letter Drop

Elizabeth Buchan - The New Mrs Clifton

Graham Greene - Brighton Rock

Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five

Elspeth Barker - O Caledonia

Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle

Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Sylvia Townsend Warner - Lolly Willowes

John Marrs - The One

MW Craven - The Botanist

Jilly Cooper - Tackle

Henry Williamson - Tarka the Ottter

Anna Sewell - Black Beauty

Kenneth Grahame - Wind in the Willows

Stuart McBride - The Dead of Winter

Thomas Harris - Silence of the Lambs

Peter James - Dead Simple

Natalie Tambini - The Nail Salon

Natalie Tambini - The Publicist

Rutger Bregman - Humankind

William Golding - Lord of the Flies

E Nesbit - The Lark

E Nesbit - Five Children and It

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