Russel James Tome 2

A virgin island - Edition XXL

Five quite different romances from the 1890s, issued now for the first time in book form - with original Victorian illustrations. The recently rediscovered author Nicola Nickleby wrote a number of surprisingly effective stories for popular magazines of the day, as well as the 'advanced' and, for its time, shocking novel We Never Shall Marry (to be reissued in 2022). In this collection you will find:A Song Without Words: Which of Mrs Arnott's two sons will Jane marry? Herbert becomes engaged to her but, as was often the case in the 19th century, cannot marry immediately but has to first spend a long time abroad, leaving Jane under the watchful eye of his mother and his brother Matthew. Penelope's Prince: The children are worried about their cousin Penelope, who seems dreadfully ill. What can be the matter? Consumption - that awful, fatal disease - may be the reason Penelope is so pale, but no one says so. To speak of it might bring it. But is it consumption? Might there be another reason?The Old Manor House: After many years Jeanette returns to the house she last knew as a child. When told the sad story of two sisters who each loved a young painter, Mr Harcourt, the tale strikes a chord. Might the sad old story still have a surprise in store?The Rescue: What better tale to be told at Christmas? Out in the snowdrifts on the wild moor a child's cry is heard - but was it a child, or was it merely an abandoned sheep? Sentimental, yes, yet oddly pleasing. The Last Chance: Two tongue-tied lovers meet on a train - but can either of them tell the other what lies in their heart?

Victorian Romances

From one of Britain's masters of crime writing, here are two stories to whet your appetite, presented here in bargain-price format. The first, A Piece of Cake, has been anthologised several times already, and tells of the night Terri waited at home for her current lover, the no-good Jeg, to return from his latest robbery. The job had gone wrong, and Jeg is not in a good mood. In the second story, No Debts Unpaid, Terri has moved on. Working as a hostess in a south London bar, she is pressured into picking up and duping a more likeable young criminal, Billy Nolan. Terri is a girl with a conscience - but it will be a violent night, and unhappy for some.

Terri's Tales

After ten years away, ex-boxer Floyd Carter comes back for his brother's funeral, and to decide what's to be done with his other brother, the lumbering Ludo whose mental age is barely twelve. But if Ludo knows anything it is that Albie's death was not an accident. And if Floyd knows anything it is that he will have to sort things out. In case he thought he had a choice, he is quickly confronted by local hoods who claim that Albie owes ten thousand pounds. And 'Snake' Carmichael, upscale nightclub owner and drug supplier to the recently renovated Isle of Dogs, wants Floyd Carter in his team. But was Carmichael behind Albie's death? Or were the Richardsons involved?Floyd's old friend Jamie is hooked on drugs. And Suzie Peters, Floyd's one-time teenage flame, has an eighteen-year-old mixed-race daughter who sings in Carmichael's club. Floyd thought his fighting days were over. They aren't yet.

Payback

If you thought the bloodthirsty Jacobean tragedy, The Changeling, could not be made any more shocking, you haven't read this version, written by the man Ian Rankin called 'The Godfather of British Noir'. James cuts to the quick - and in doing so cuts some of the more old-fashioned coincidences, cuts all the speeches, a good deal of the poetry and some of the minor characters, and concentrates instead on the gripping plot and its three main characters (middle aged husband, his young bride, and their wicked servant). From the original play he leaves in the saucy maid, the rival boyfriend and the awful secret, along with Middleton's outrageous sexual premise, and he serves his dish as fresh and hot as was the original Jacobean play.

The Annex

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

In late Victorian England, two fathers must choose between daughters and sons. Man's Estate, the third in the Croome saga, takes place in 1893 when the story splits between lives in the growing town of Croome and the quite different life in the nearby Manor. Squire Lawrence's four children are headed by the tall, proud, good-looking Riordan - but does he deserve to take over the Beauchamp estate? Is he a villain or merely a cad and bounder?His sister Maud is still unmarried, while his brother Clive, the budding poet, has invited the sparky Frances Vernon and her brother down from London. "If he invites that girl down here again, " thinks Riordan, "She'll have to bring her parents. What a prospect: having to entertain the middle classes, marry into the middle classes." Is Frances a suitable match for the unworldly Clive - and can she be more than a match for the raffish Riordan? And at a time of crisis, why does everyone ignore Maud?In nearby Croome meanwhile Nathan Brook, works foreman on a nearby speculative housing development, has welcomed home his eldest son Mervyn. He has been away at sea, he says, for several years - but what is his true story? Can he supplant his younger sister Megan in Nathan's eyes? When Nathan finds Mervyn a job at the Manor, can he keep it? Can he hold down any job?In the space of less than three weeks both families, the Brooks and the Lawrences, find themselves confronted by different crises. Who among then will rise to the challenge? Who will fail?Man's Estate is both a stand-alone novel and the third in the Croome saga - praised by the Historical Novel Society as "vividly described, historically accurate ... well written and impeccably researched."

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