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No One Gets Hurt
Pick Any Title
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Oh No, Not My Baby
Count Me Out
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APPEARANCES CAN BE DECEPTIVE
At odd times through the year British readers can see me live - or as live as I get - with several other writers in the West Midlands, Wales and Border counties. We read, talk, and wind up the audience, as we reveal THE SECRETS OF CRIME WRITING. Perhaps we're in your area?
To discover more or to make a booking, check the Secrets of Crime Writing page.
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Read All About It:
A change of tack?
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 £9.99
(probably lower on the net)
ISBN 978 1 84468 083 2
Read all about it on the Victorian Writers & Poets page.
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.
Find out more at
The Maud Allan Affair page.
ESSENTIAL READING:
Did you read the blackest Russell James?
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.