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

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

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

ça ne fait de mal à personne

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

This collection of six stories has been brought together for the first time within one book. Five are set in London, though the first brings some of his London characters out for a day's shooting in the Cotswolds. (This is the story singled out in the Times as 'a splendid country house shocker'.) In this book you'll meet criminals and the women who wait for them, a missing daughter, London lowlife, faded aristocracy - and the only James story to feature a private detective. What more could you ask?

The London Sextet

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

On the night Parliament burnt down, a child was conceived out of wedlock, a baby was abandoned, and another thrown into the Thames. The year is 1834 and J. M. W. Turner is sketching Parliament in flames. Unnoticed, a hackney cab drives past, heading for a dark alley in London, home to a notorious baby farmer - where the passenger abandons an innocent baby girl. She will end up on the Victorian stage. At the mercy of men she'll trust nobody. Another child is conceived that same night but will never know that the man she loves as a father is not her real parent. She gives up her dreams for him, abandoning the talent she inherited from her artist father - to the disappointment of Dante Gabriel Rossetti who had admired her work when she exhibited at the Royal Academy. Also that night a newborn baby is thrown into the Thames by his forsaken mother, leaving a mystery for those who find his little basket floating down the river, a mystery he will try to solve years later as a journalist. The lives of the three children interweave with those of famous people of the era including Turner, Millais, Holman Hunt and the self-styled greatest historical artist of the time, Benjamin Haydon. Not to mention the intriguing He-Sing who cons the establishment enough to let him meet Queen Victoria at the Great Exhibition of 1851, the year in which the Pre-Raphaelites make their name.

The Exhibitionists

Que vous soyez né à Londres ou simple voyageur, le but de ce guide est de vous faire découvrir les tous derniers lieux à la mode de cette capitale dans le vent. Où acheter les derniers pantalons taille basse, casser la croûte ou faire la fête… Ce guide pratique vous révèlera autant les nouveautés que les refuges branchés incontournables. En rentrant dans l'univers du mannequin Lydia Hearst et du photographe de mode Russell James, vous suivrez les circuits à la mode, connaîtrez tous les magasins où il faut acheter, ainsi que les différents endroits où vous prélasser en savourant un cocktail ou des amuse-gueules.

Cool guide London

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.

Brace Yourself

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