I’m going to write about my Ilkley Literature Festival experiences at more length later in the week, but I need to say something about Peter James the crime novelist, with whom I did an event last Tuesday, and whom I interviewed for the second show of the James Nash Podcast earlier today. We hit it off immediately at Ilkley (I had interviewed him for Northern Exposure on the telephone a month or so ago) and started chatting in the dressing room with the ease of old friends. The event itself was a lovely, friendly hour of the best conversation, with Peter talking about how he had come up with his detective, Roy Grace, and why writing in the crime genre gave him so much pleasure. In the podcast interview Peter James is as charming and insightful as he was before an audience. Check out the podcast on Thursday 18th October, to see what I mean.