Welcome!
Welcome to the Russell James pages
You may know that I’m the author of a dozen and a half novels, crime and historical, and four illustrated biographical encyclopedias:
Great British Fictional Detectives and its companion,
Great British Fictional Villains, followed by
The Pocket Guide to Victorian Writers & Poets and now
The Pocket Guide to Victorian Artists & Models.
2012 saw my latest Historical, The Exhibitionists and my latest ebook (April 2013) is Rafael’s Gold, a 21st century thriller with a historical strand (the Spanish Armada). Please order from your ebook supplier or your local bookshop – or failing that, do please order a copy from the library! To see more on any of my books, click on the relevant page (to the right).
For ebooks suitable for Sony, Kindle and most readers, find a synopsis of the whole collection by clicking My ebooks at Smashwords or find them on the website of your ebook supplier.
Several are available as Kindle downloads direct from Amazon: Russell James page
And for KOBO, look here:
Two recent non-fiction titles (available as Print-on-Paper books and ebooks) are
A POCKET GUIDE TO VICTORIAN ARTISTS & MODELS
published by Remember When
(an imprint of Pen & Sword)
Recommended price £12.99
(probably lower on the net)
ISBN 978 1 84468 095 5
Read all about it on the Victorian Artists & Models page.
and . . .
A POCKET GUIDE TO VICTORIAN WRITERS & POETS
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.
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.
“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.
Christopher Wilson
March 20, 2012 at 5:51 pm
Dear Mr James,
I’m writing a piece for the D Mail on a topic which spins from the Maud Allan affair, namely the exclusion from the witness box at Noel Pemberton Billing’s trial of Mrs Keppel. I wonder, would it be asking too much to pick your brains for a couple of minutes (only)? Christopher Wilson
Russell James
March 20, 2012 at 7:41 pm
Certainly there was intervention – but by whom? We shall never know.
I’ve answered your questions in more detail separately by email. (Sorry, anyone else who was interested!)
Best of luck with your piece. I shall be interested to read it.
Quibids Software
April 10, 2013 at 3:36 am
Finally a smart blogger…I adore how you are considering and writing!