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Deux types en acier trempé, Rick Miller et Tony Iles, règnent sur la nuit londonienne. « En privé » pour le premier, qui produit la majorité des films pornographiques du Royaume ; « en public » pour le second, dont on ne compte plus les salons de massage.Dans ce climat tendu de mafia, Zoe, une jeune journaliste infiltrée, est assassinée sur le tournage d'un film X. Mais tout semble baigner dans le plus interlope des mondes, et ni la police, ni Kirsty, l'ambitieuse collègue de Zoe, ne parviennent à tirer le moindre fil...Il faut attendre que Tony Iles, désoeuvré, visionne le fameux porno, pour que le scandale éclate : la star, sur son écran géant, n'est autre que sa fille ! Cette légère erreur de casting fissure la loi du silence. La frontière entre la vertu des uns et les vices des autres va se révéler bien mince...Qui a dit que l'ambition, le sexe et l'argent ne faisaient de mal à personne ?Après Peindre au noir (Fayard Noir, 2009), thriller irrigué d'histoire nazie, Russell James privilégie une écriture de l'action. Nerveuse, incisive, subversive, elle lui permet d'éclairer les zones troubles de la nature humaine, d'où il semble extraire la moelle de ses romans.« Un roman passionnant d'un des maîtres du genre, aux niveaux de lectures foisonnants. » Mail on Sunday« Quand il unit traits de plume et d'esprit, Russell James est le meilleur ! » Time out

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A black comedy set in the Swinging Sixties (1963-4) and revealed through the diaries of a doctor - 35 years old and still a virgin - whose curious obsessions drive him to start murdering his patients. Doctor Kristal is picky, pedantic and super-sure he's right - though he doesn't see himself that way. In his consulting room he regards most patients with contempt, and on his lonely walks through the graveyard he muses on life and death. In the pub his only friend, a doctor approaching retirement, tries to sell Kristal his practice and to interest him in a young female doctor across town. Kristal, though, is becoming obsessed with two attractive patients. Sexy young Jane Quinney, who he has helped before, has found herself pregnant and wants his help again, while the alluring Eleanor, unhappily married to an older man (an overweening actor) asks if there is any way to slow her husband's voracious sexual appetite. Kristal thinks himself immune from any hint of sexual passion - but they are beautiful woman, desperate for his help. Isn't there anything he can do?

The Newly Discovered Diaries of Doctor Kristal

In a quiet London street, a gunman holds his little child as hostage until, after a dramatic police siege, the smoke clears to reveal a sickening outcome. Firearms Officer Abi Wilde is suspended. As if that wasn't bad enough, her CO19 work partner Tom Fortune learns that, across town the very same day, his own daughter has been kidnapped. He had already lost her, in a way, because when his ex-wife shacked up with Andrei Kashirin, a dodgy Russian billionaire, she took the children along with her, and the Russian now regards himself as their father. He is striking deals ahead of the 2012 Olympics and, although Tom's daughter has been kidnapped, it is Kashirin who is tapped to pay. But he's not the type to give in to threats. He intends to tackle the kidnappers his way. But Tom is the girl's real father, and he is determined to get his daughter back himself. CO19 take him off the case. So he's on his own. Until Abi comes in to help.

Requiem for a Daughter

Coming of age in Victorian England. In 1887, twelve-year-old orphan Lucy Richards is taken secretly into the care of a half-pay captain in an isolated farmhouse several miles from the small town of Croome. Lucy's mother founded hospitals in India and Natal, and when news of her death arrives in Britain the press tries to find the child. But they can't find her hidden away with Captain Hart - nor when she stays at Beauchamp Manor with the local squire, where she befriends the squire's horse-mad daughter. Maud has two older brothers, the Oxford student Clive and his raffish brother Riordan who has an eye for a pretty girl. But Lucy remains besotted with Captain Hart. In the next four years she grows into a wilful, hot-blooded girl, determined to defy the constraints of the Victorian world. The Captain's Ward is both a stand-alone novel and the prequel to 'After She Drowned'.

The Captain's Ward

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John Leighton, owner of a fine estate in the Cotswolds, lives well - when we meet him he is 'warmly encased in leather-lined Le Chameau boots, neat Habicht binoculars slung loose around his neck, and he carries a boxlock Holland and Holland Cavalier shotgun in one hand.' Weekend shooting parties are nothing new to him - but for Leighton this will be the first (and last) to be attended by some friends, some business contacts, his wife's lover, and an undercover London hit-man.

Brace Yourself

Deux types en acier tremp�, Rick Miller et Tony Iles, r�gnent sur la nuit londonienne. � En priv� � pour le premier, qui produit la majorit� des films pornographiques du Royaume; � en public � pour le second, dont on ne compte plus les salons de massage.Dans ce climat tendu de mafia, Zoe, une jeune journaliste infiltr�e, est assassin�e sur le tournage d'un film X. Mais tout semble baigner dans le plus interlope des mondes, et ni la police, ni Kirsty, l'ambitieuse coll�gue de Zoe, ne parviennent � tirer le moindre fil...Il faut attendre que Tony Iles, d�soeuvr�, visionne le fameux porno, pour que le scandale �clate: la star, sur son �cran g�ant, n'est autre que sa fille ! Cette l�g�re erreur de casting fissure la loi du silence. La fronti�re entre la vertu des uns et les vices des autres va se r�v�ler bien mince...Qui a dit que l'ambition, le sexe et l'argent ne faisaient de mal � personne ?Apr�s Peindre au noir (Fayard Noir, 2009), thriller irrigu� d'histoire nazie, Russell James privil�gie une �criture de l'action. Nerveuse, incisive, subversive, elle lui permet d'�clairer les zones troubles de la nature humaine, d'o� il semble extraire la moelle de ses romans.� Un roman passionnant d'un des ma�tres du genre, aux niveaux de lectures foisonnants. � Mail on Sunday� Quand il unit traits de plume et d'esprit, Russell James est le meilleur ! � Time out

Ça ne fait de mal à personne

Angleterre, 1997, quelques semaines avant l'élection de Tony Blair à la tête du gouvernement travailliste. Gottfleish, un marchand d'art peu scrupuleux, est convaincu que Sidonie Keene, une délicate lady anglaise de quatre-vingt-cinq ans, possède encore, soigneusement dissimulées, des toiles originales de sa soeur Naomi, disparue cinquante ans plus tôt dans la pauvreté, la solitude et la honte. Sa cote atteint des sommets.
Alors que Sidonie assiste aux funérailles d'un de ses plus proches amis, Gottfleish envoie Ticky, son âme damnée, évaluer la fortune qui repose derrière les rideaux du cottage. Ticky ne se doute pas qu'en fouillant les tiroirs de la dame il va réveiller de lourds secrets, nés de l'intimité de Naomi et de Sidonie avec les caciques du IIIe Reich...

A travers le regard d'une ancienne mondaine des années trente, Russell James rouvre un chapitre ténébreux de l'histoire du xxe siècle. Par la chronique d'une jeunesse brillante aussi fascinée que dépassée par le monstre nazi, et par le récit croisé de la menace spéculative qui pèse peu à peu sur les biens, les souvenirs et la personne de cette vieille lady, il nous offre un roman noir d'une exceptionnelle tenue, un portrait dense et documenté de la figure du Mal dans toutes ses ambiguïtés.

Peindre au noir

Paris est la ville de rêve par excellence. Cependant, la capitale du monde de la mode a beaucoup plus à offrir qu'événements culturels et musées. Le Cool Guide Pans vous présente les lieux tendances, les boutiques et les restaurants les plus raffinés et plus encore. Le top model Lydia Hearst et le photographe de mode Russell James vous dévoilent tous les secrets d'initiés sur les bars, cafés ou clubs les plus branchés. Paris vous est expliqué à travers des pages informatives où vous trouverez de nombreuses adresses essentielles et une carte pratique. Le Cool Guide Paris se fait ainsi votre compagnon de voyage à la découverte de cette ville tendance.

Cool Guide Paris

A comprehensive guide to Charity Gift Books - books in which famous contributors gave their work for free and from which all profits went to charity. Back in the last century (especially in wartime) many of our well-known charities raised money through selling a book - either a lavishly illustrated coffee-table book in which the beautiful pictures were accompanied by written contributions from the famous or, on occasions, something more quirky. In many homes, these books were the most beautiful in the house. Normally, such lovely things would be beyond an ordinary person's means. But not these - and because they usually sold in large numbers, many of them can still be found in second-hand bookshops, at affordable prices. They make a great collection for anyone with a passion for books today. Most are a compilation of full-page pictures from famous artists, short stories by famous writers, specially commissioned poems and pages of sheet music, 'private' photographs (of the famous again), autographs and scraps of facsimile handwriting. Here is an illustrated guide to practically every one of them.

Gift Books For Good Causes

After five years she's back: the girl Nick Chance fell for at school. She went on to university, while he stayed in Bristol and tried to make a career in rock groups. Now he plays sax in a jazz/rock group, Blue Delta, due to play for the first time this year at Glastonbury. But then comes tragedy. When he helps Babette on a 'jaunt' to expose malpractice in a meat-processing plant she is killed in a horrific accident. Or was it an accident?Nick is suddenly a 'person of interest' to the police, to intruders in his flat, to New Age apostles of extended life, to animal rights activists, even to workers at the plant. These activists are not soft-hearted. Their tactics include arson, bombs and death. Nick's quest to find what really happened leads him into the dark and complex world of food politics and a reeking broth of conspiracy, deceit and fraud, all of which comes to a boil the night Blue Delta first mounts the Glastonbury stage. It should be the night that makes Blue Delta, but will it be the night that breaks every dream he had?

She Had To Die

Rick Miller, magnat de l'industrie pornographique, et Tony Iles, proprietaire tentaculaire d'etablissements de plaisir, regnent sur la nuit londonienne. Deux types en acier trempe (rital contre cockney), qui preferent s'ignorer. Dans ce climat tendu de mafia, un tournage de film X, avec acteurs blases et sequences bien huilees, va se transformer en scene de crime. La police et Kirsty, une jeune journaliste ambitieuse et amie de la victime, patinent. Au retour d'un restau, Tony Iles visionne mollement un porno produit par le fils de son ennemi, quand son regard se fige: sur son ecran geant, la jeune actrice X sur le point d'etre sodomisee est sa fille, et elle n'a que quatorze ans. Cette legere erreur de casting conduit les deux caids a s'entredevorer. Des lors, quetes et enquetes s'entremelent, policiere, journalistique, sentimentale et familiale, ancrees dans le monde interlope de la pornographie et de la nuit. La frontiere entre la vertu des uns, les vices des autres (et vice et versa) se revelant parfois bien mince. Avec Peindre au Noir, son precedent ouvrage (Fayard Noir), Russell James signait un roman noir contemporain irrigue d'histoire (notamment nazie). Ici, il privilegie une ecriture de l'action. Nerveuse, incisive, subversive, elle lui permet d'eclairer les zones troubles de la nature humaine, comme entre chien et loup, d'ou il semble extraire la moelle meme de ses romans."

The entire story is narrated into an iPhone. Why? Crosby Ravensworth is so busy he can't make time to scatter his father's ashes, nor to sort out the dysfunctional family he hoped he'd left behind, nor to decide which of the four women in his life he should connect to. His father has committed suicide and the funeral will be the first time Crosby meets any of his uneasy family for five years - his stepmother (who never accepted him), his stepbrother (a priest), his half-sister (a businesswoman, ever on the phone like Crosby) and his youngest half-brother (out of work). Crosby leaves with a sealed box of his father's papers, a last letter and the task of scattering his father's ashes at a quiet location in the Lake District. When he has time. He's a 24/7 guy whose work takes him to some great places - Venice, California, Munich - even if he doesn't get to spend much time in them (hardly any, to tell the truth). And he gets to travel all over Britain to, well, Hartlepool, Carlisle, Birmingham .

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