The first full-length study of its type highlighting over 150 fictional villains, many famous through their film and TV adaptations including The Daleks and Cruella De Vil, as well as crime fiction favorites. Using essays to highlight different types of villains and focusing on some of the more famous such as Moriarty and Greengrass, popular crime fiction writer and former Chariman of the CWA, Russell James celebrates the role of the fictional villains. Illustrations will include original film posters and first edition covers from classic crime fiction and other genres and media.

This is the companion book to Russell's Great British Detectives.

Part of a series of dictionary-style books to include The Dictionary of Animal Stories: from Black Beauty to White Fang by Fiona Shoop (published September 2009)....

Replacing the successful Cool Restaurants, Cool Shops, Cool Spots, and Architecture and Design series, teNeues presents the Cool Guides…Featuring the hippest, best designed and most fashionable spots, Cool Guides will feature places to shop, eat, dine, as well as see and be seen! As much for locals as for visitors, each volume will showcase approximately 40 locations with two double photographic spreads. With the input of supermodel Lydia Hearst, fashion photographer Russell James and a local panel of experts, it’s like a personal tour from a cool best friend....

Maud Allan, the famous exotic dancer was destroyed by the infamous libel trial brought by charismatic M.P. and pilot, Noel Pemberton-Billing. In this wonderfully written book, Russell James charts her rise and fall from the days when she saved the 1908 London Olympics from failure to the outrageous miscarriage of justice of her trial which knocked the dark days of the First World War off the front pages of the national newspapers. In his gripping narrative, Russell seamlessly moves from the days when Maud was courted by society to the end when her friends, apart from former PM's wife, Margot Asquith, shunned her in case they, too, were labeled as sexual deviants. The trial was based on the existence of the notorious (and fictional?). German black book and its list of 47,000 sexually depraved people who could be used by the Germans to defeat the British in War. Names included Herbert and Margot Asquith and the judge himself. Maud did not stand a chance.

A fantastic read brought out in time for the 2008 Beijing Olympics which will be looking ahead to the next London Olympics, in four years' time....

Replacing the successful Cool Restaurants, Cool Shops, Cool Spots, and Architecture and Design series, teNeues presents the Cool Guides…Featuring the hippest, best designed and most fashionable spots, Cool Guides will feature places to shop, eat, dine, as well as see and be seen! As much for locals as for visitors, each volume will showcase approximately 40 locations with two double photographic spreads. With the input of supermodel Lydia Hearst, fashion photographer Russell James and a local panel of experts, it’s like a personal tour from a cool best friend....

Replacing the successful Cool Restaurants, Cool Shops, Cool Spots, and Architecture and Design series, teNeues presents the Cool Guides…Featuring the hippest, best designed and most fashionable spots, Cool Guides will feature places to shop, eat, dine, as well as see and be seen! As much for locals as for visitors, each volume will showcase approximately 40 locations with two double photographic spreads. With the input of supermodel Lydia Hearst, fashion photographer Russell James and a local panel of experts, it’s like a personal tour from a cool best friend....