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A British author of some 2 dozen books, half of which are crime novels, Russell is an ex-chairman of the Crime Writers Association. He has written several non-fiction works and half a dozen historical novels. He is currently working on the third book in his Croome Victorian saga, the first of which is AFTER SHE DROWNED, telling of forbidden love in the Victorian Church, and the second THE CAPTAIN'S WARD, telling of a young girl's coming of age in Victorian Britain. ...more

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Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor

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I'm surprised anyone gives this less than 5 out of 5. It's beautifully told and, of course, redolent of a lost mid-twentieth century period when it wasn't unusual for older people on average or slightly above average means to retire to live in very ordinary hotels. (Few can afford that now - or would want to.) The widowed Read more of this blog post »

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Average rating: 4.06 · 133 ratings · 12 reviews · 38 distinct works

	Payback 3.76 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1993 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Maud Allan Affair 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2008 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Painting in the Dark 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2001 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Underground 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1989 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Count Me Out really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1996 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Great British Fictional Detectives 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Exhibitionists 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Oh No, Not My Baby 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1999	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pocket Guide to Victorian Artists and Their Models 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pick Any Title 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2001 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Russell James rated a book it was amazing a popular encyclopaedia of victorian women writers: the famous, the forgotten, the forlorn by Russell James (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Russell James rated a book it was amazing The Weather In Africa/Three Novellas by Martha Gellhorn	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
These three novellas might be cancelled by shallower intellects today, but they should be classed as literature, capturing settler life in and around the time of Kenyan independence.
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Russell James rated a book it was amazing Travels in West Africa by Mary H. Kingsley	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
One of the greatest travel memoirs. Her bold explorations in 19th century Sierra Leone, Nigeria and (mainly) Guinea. Down the rapids and up the mountains, with nights spent sleeping in cannibal villages . . . They don't write 'em like this any more. ...more
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Russell James rated a book it was amazing Family Album by Penelope Lively	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Only one of the six children doesn't leave their rambling and decaying family house. Jolting time sequences don't spoil a brilliantly readable novel. ...more
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Russell James rated a book it was amazing The Blackbirder by Dorothy B. Hughes	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A girl on the run in wartime America - from whom? And why? A story that's tense and twisting from page one, if slightly marred by its somewhat dated ending - but a noir classic. ...more
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Russell James rated a book it was amazing We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Russell James rated a book it was amazing Women's Writing of the Victorian Period 1837 1901: An Anthology by Harriet Devine Jump	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A superb and varied collection, very well edited, with biographies, themes, textual notes . . .
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Russell James rated a book it was amazing Mrs Humphry Ward: Eminent Victorian, Pre-eminent Edwardian by John Sutherland	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
An excellent biography, telling not only of her but her family, her publishers and her books. Success and tragedy. All you'd want to know. ...more
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Russell James rated a book it was amazing Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories by Jenny Uglow	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Lively and fully detailed biography with interesting crits and summaries of the stories, including some less well-known ones. 616 pages before the Notes etc.!
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