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Donald James


Born
in Chelsea, The United Kingdom
August 22, 1931

Died
April 28, 2008

Genre
Crime, Nonfiction, Fiction


Donald James (born Donald James Wheal) was a British television writer, novelist and non-fiction writer.

Educated at Sloane Grammar School and Pembroke College, Cambridge (where he read history), James completed his National Service in the Parachute Regiment before returning to London to work as a supply teacher.

He was the author of the best-selling novels Vadim, Monstrum, The Fortune Teller and The Fall of the Russian Empire, as well as non-fiction books such as The Penguin Dictionary of the Third Reich. He wrote under a number of pseudonyms, notably Thomas Dresden and James Barwick (originally in collaboration with fellow writer Tony Barwick, another long-term contributor to the various television productions of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson a ...more

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Average rating: 3.73 · 909 ratings · 74 reviews · 58 distinct works • Similar authors
Monstrum (Constantin Vadim,...
3.70 avg rating — 423 ratings — published 1997 — 29 editions
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Once a Gentleman
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“At least half of my life’s many mistakes can be safely put down to impetuosity: the other half derive from inertia.”
― Donald James
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