“He goes looking for trouble where more circumspect writers would back off,” said the Times Saturday Review
“An influential and often brilliant crime novelist,” said Lit Hub Weekly.
John Fullerton says : “There’s no-one with a more readable narrative flow than James.”
I write several kinds of books – crime, history and other – fiction and non-fiction.
CRIME is here.
HISTORY here.
And OTHERS here.
Now out and available:
The book I have been working on for the last four years – incorporating a lifetime (well, almost) of knowledge: the massive, incredibly detailed Popular Encyclopaedia of Victorian Women Writers
As author and critic Peter Guttridge says:
An exhaustive – but by no means exhausting – exploration of Victorian Women Writers.
It might seem out of keeping with the modern mood for a man to write about women authors – and so comprehensively – but there is no mansplaining going on here. What burns through is a clear enjoyment of the Victorian period and these women writers – especially the ‘forgotten and forlorn’ ones. James has form as a fine encyclopaedist so I knew I was in safe hands when I bought this.
Peter Guttridge
Or, of course, you can order it from Amazon or your favourite bookshop now: CLICK HERE!
A selection from my recent fiction:
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Have you tasted the delights of the 3 books in my Croome Victorian Saga? I think it’s best if you read The Captain’s Ward first – but what do I know? I’m only the author.
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- It follows this surprisingly topical story:
It’s 2001, the start of a new millennium. Disease sweeps the nation, people are quarantined, the government fumbles. The weather is extraordinary and people grumble about illegal immigrants.Britain’s Foot and Mouth Disease will cost billions and see the death of hundreds of thousands of animals. Farmers will lose their livelihoods and some will kill themselves. When the government is accused of incompetence the General Election will be postponed. All this before September, and that other tragedy on the other side of the world.2001 was a lifetime ago, yet it could be today.- Relive that extraordinary year: right here.
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By the way . . . There’s yet more on me and my other books on ABOUT ME.
And in recent crime . . .
Did she fall or was she pushed?
It should have been a dream come true. Nick always fancied her at school but nothing came of it. Six years later he meets up with her again. This time she wants him. She has left university now and he plays in a jazz-rock band. She leads him into the dark and complex labyrinth of food politics, in which heroes and villains do not come conveniently packaged. Businessmen can be human, animal rights activists can be vicious. Meanwhile, his band is preparing for its biggest ever opportunity – a slot at the world famous Glastonbury Festival. If Nick can make it.
Check it out now – CLICK HERE
Russell James 