List Of Writers
JAMES, BILL
Bill James is a former journalist who worked for the Western Mail and South WalesEcho, The Daily Mirror and the Sunday Times. He is the author of twenty-four crime novels in the Harpur and Iles series, which are published all over the world. Protection, the fourth in the series, was televised by BBC 1 as Harpur & Iles, starring Hywel Bennett. Hollywood is currently negotiating for Halo Parade, number three.
James lives in his native South Wales and also writes under the name David Craig, most recently a series set around Cardiff docks, where he grew up. The Warner Brothers film, The Squeeze, with Stacy Keach, Edward Fox and Carol White was adapted from the David Craig novel, Whose Little Girl Are You? He is married with four children and a part-time tutor in creative writing at the University of Wales, Cardiff.
Selected Publications:
Harpur and Iles Series:
You’d Better Believe It (St. Martin’s Press, 1985)
The Lolita Man (Constable, 1986)
Halo Parade (Constable, 1987)
Protection (Penguin Books, 1989)
Take (Macmillan, 1990)
Come Clean (Penguin Books, 1991)
Astride a Grave (Macmillan, 1991)
Club (Macmillan, 1991)
Gospel (Macmillan, 1992)
Roses, Roses (Macmillan, 1993)
In Good Hands (Macmillan, 1994)
The Detective is Dead (Macmillan, 1995)
Top Banana (Macmillan, 1996)
Panicking Ralph (Macmillan, 1997)
Lovely Mover (Macmillan, 1998)
Halo Parade (W. W. Norton & Co. Ltd, 1998)
Eton Crop (Macmillan, 1999)
Kill Me (Macmillan, 2000)
Pay Days (Constable and Robinson, 2001)
Naked at the Window (W. W. Norton & Co. Ltd, 2002)
The Girl with the Long Back (Constable and Robinson, 2003)
Easy Streets (Constable and Robinson, 2004)
Wolves of Memory (Constable and Robinson, 2005)
Girls (Constable, 2006)
Pix (Constable and Robinson, 2007)
Bloodlines Series:
A Man’s Enemies (The Do-Not Press, 2003)
Other titles:
Forget It (Severn House Publishing, 1995)
The King’s Friends (Severn House, 1995)
The Last Enemy (Severn House, 1997)
Split (The Do-Not Press, 2001)
The Middleman (The Do-Not Press, 2002)
Double Jeopardy (Severn House, 2002)
Between Lives (Severn House, 2004)
Making Stuff Up (Severn House, 2006)
The Sixth Man, and Other Stories (Severn House, 2006)
Letters from Carthage (Severn House, 2006)
As David Craig:
The Tattooed Detective (Constable and Robinson, 1998)
Torch (Constable and Robinson, 1999)
Bay City Constable and Robinson, 2000)
Hear Me Talking To You (Severn House, 2005)
Tip Top (Severn House, 2005)