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Read All About It:A Victorian spellbinder The Exhibitionists  Did you catch my 2010 book? A Pocket Guide to Victorian Artists and Models by Russell James Published by Remember When (an imprint of Pen & Sword) ISBN 184468095-9 Recommended Price £12.99 216 pages fully illustrated  This fascinating guide book covers some 400 Victorian artists, from the famous to the long forgotten, from the classical to the advanced – and, unlike many art books, it’s fun and entertaining, looking as much at the artists’ lives as at their canvases. Who were they? How did they live? Why do we today warm to 19th century art, delighting in it more than we like art from any other century, including our own? By the time Victoria died, the nation’s top artists, like modern pop stars, were fabulously rich, lived in mansions, and surrounded themselves with luxury. Others, outside the top bracket, struggled or starved; some drank themselves to death, some overdosed on drugs, others died lonely and disillusioned. Some had tangled love affairs, a few of which were played out and lapped up by the public. Most art books ignore artists’ models, despite their being close, often intimately close, to the artists who painted them. But in this book they are brought out into the light, and their stories, along with those of the artists who immortalised them, are brought back to life – in all their original vibrant colours! Also . . . A Pocket Guide to Victorian Writers and Poets, published August 2010, is a lot more than you might expect from a 'pocket guide' - giving details of some 250 writers and poets, famous and not so famous, ranging from Dickens, Thackeray and Collins to Wilde and the Decadents; from the Brontes to McGonagall; Ashbee the pornographer to Prest and Rymer (the Penny Dreadful scribes). Lots of fascinating facts about their lives and work, plus, of course, some great pictures.  A POCKET GUIDE TO VICTORIAN WRITERS & POETS by Russell James published by Remember When (an imprint of Pen & Sword) Recommended price £12.99 (probably lower on the net) ISBN 978 1 84468 083 2 Read all about it on the Victorian Writers & Poets page. "It is racy and readable and knowledgeable and interesting. I love its friendly tone which makes me feel I'm talking to ... someone who's telling me all the inside 'goss' and 'info' on something he knows a lot about ... Its combination of wit, scholarship and shrewd judgement is a brilliant one." - Jane Serraillier. FROM REAL LIVES TO FICTIONAL: Great British Fictional Villains, published September 2009, is the companion volume to 2008's Great British Fictional Detectives. Once again a massive A-Z is accompanied with essays and listings and, of course, lots of great pictures. Crime villains include old favourites like Moriarty, Flambeau and Count Fosco. From the Golden Age we have Doctor Bickleigh, Dimitrios, Jack Havoc, Elizabeth Kane and lots of others. Then, from a little later, villains like Karla and Harry Lime. How about Svengali and Sweeney Todd, Volpone and Varney the Vampire, Raffles and Rupert of Hentzau, Doctor Nikola and Doctor No, Fagin and Bill Sikes... They're all there. So how can you resist? It makes a fiendishly good birthday present.  GREAT BRITISH FICTIONAL VILLAINS by Russell James published by Remember When (an imprint of Pen & Sword) Recommended price £25 (though lower on the net!) ISBN 978 1844 680603 Try my VILLAINS quiz. See which of these villains you can identify CLICK HERE to test your knowledge. Don't forget the good guys. Great British Fictional Detectives is an encyclopedia of British detective fiction. In the A-Z section are write-ups on around 450 fictional 'tecs, from the earliest to current favourites, on page, stage, TV and screen – a far more detailed guide than you will find elsewhere, not only of the famous names (Sherlock Homes, John Rebus, Inspector Morse) but also of many equally fascinating but less well-known detectives. Wrapped around this encyclopedic centre are articles and listings of top books, TV shows, genres and fascinating facts.  GREAT BRITISH FICTIONAL DETECTIVES by Russell James published by Remember When (an imprint of Pen & Sword) Recommended price £25 (lower on the net!) ISBN 978 1844 680269 Find out more by clicking GREAT BRITISH FICTIONAL DETECTIVES here. I was also a principal contributing editor to the Harcourt Encyclopaedia of Crime Fiction, also out this year - but at a much higher price! My last historical novel, The Maud Allan Affair - a 'fictography' of the legendary Maud Allan, originator of The Dance of the Seven Veils - is a handsome hardback, with photos, also published by Pen & Sword. 
Find out more at The Maud Allan Affair page. NO ONE GETS HURT (recommended by The Erotic Review, praised by The Literary Review), and republished in 2010 in France. Find out why at the No One Gets Hurt page. Or for a lighter read: PICK ANY TITLE which has now come out in Russian. (I can't quite get my head round this: it's a black comedy, for Heaven's sake.) PICK ANY TITLE - my lightest, funniest book Check the Pick Any Title page. Another sexy cover, I'm afraid. |
Ça ne fait de mal à personne
(No One Gets Hurt)
published by Fayard Noir,
as was Peindre au Noir
(Painting in the Dark)
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