Russell has been a published writer for some 25 years, is an ex-Chairman of the Crime Writers Association, and has written a dozen and a half novels in the crime and historical genres. He has also published various non-fiction works, including 4 illustrated biographical encyclopaedias: Great British Fictional Detectives and its companion work, Great British Fictional Villains, followed by the Pocket Guide to Victorian Writers & Poets, and its companion, the Pocket Guide to Victorian Artists & Their Models.
His books include:IN A TOWN NEAR YOU (Prospero)THE CAPTAIN'S WARD (Prospero)AFTER SHE DROWNED (Prospero)STORIES I CAN'T TELL (with Maggie King) (Prospero)THE NEWLY DISCOVERED DIARIES OF DOCTOR KRISTAL (Prospero)EXIT 39 (Prospero)RAFAEL'S GOLD (Prospero)THE EXHIBITIONISTS (G-Press)POCKET GUIDE TO VICTORIAN ARTISTS & MODELS (Pen & Sword)POCKET GUIDE TO VICTORIAN WRITERS & POETS (Pen & Sword)GREAT BRITISH FICTIONAL VILLAINS (Pen & Sword)GREAT BRITISH FICTIONAL DETECTIVES (Pen & Sword)THE MAUD ALLAN AFFAIR (Pen & Sword)MY BULLET SWEETLY SINGS (Prospero)REQUIEM FOR A DAUGHTER (Prospero)NO ONE GETS HURT (Do Not Press)PICK ANY TITLE (Do Not Press)THE ANNEX (Five Star Mysteries)PAINTING IN THE DARK (Do Not Press)OH NO, NOT MY BABY (Do Not Press)COUNT ME OUT (Serpent's Tail)SLAUGHTER MUSIC (Alison & Busby)PAYBACK (Gollancz)DAYLIGHT (Gollancz)UNDERGROUND (Gollancz)
James Havers is an editor at Prospero Books.
He has a collection of well over three thousand ink-on-paper books, housed in a room lined with custom-built bookshelves and, in deference or perhaps out of sheer cussedness, he refuses to take his e-reader into his library, keeping that room sacred to books that can be held, fondled and, with some of the older volumes, smelt.