Making Stuff Up

A biting and hilarious satire of literature, love and Labour - Meet the hothouse student talent in a University Creative Writing course and some talents not so hot. Principal Caspar Ballaugh struggles to qualify for better Government funding, despite Government policy changing daily. He could secure glory by getting the local city a European award for cultural achievement. But how to do this without lecturer Lucy Corth, nationally hailed as a poetic genius just after Ballaugh sacked her?

Bill James has been called "the Elmore Leonard of Britain's underworld" (Kirkus Reviews) and has been named a "Master of Crime" in a mystery roundup by the London Sunday Times, which said, "There is nothing else quite like this series of police procedurals. James is concerned with the dilemmas and difficulties of policing Britain's inner cities, and he addresses these in hard-edged narratives that leave readers gasping and flinching, praying the people in these stories never come to live in their streets." In addition to the Harpur and Iles series, James is the author of other mystery series and a book on Anthony Powell. He lives in Wales.