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James Long


Born
The United Kingdom
Genre
Historical Fiction, Mystery, Nonfiction


Aka Will Davenport

James Long was a BBC TV news correspondent until the end of the 1980s. After two years starting and running an international TV station out of Zurich, he returned to England to concentrate on writing, which had always been his first love. He wrote four thrillers, then went back to a story he had begun many years earlier and which grew into Ferney. The book was originally born from his disappointment at being unable to buy a derelict cottage he had found near the village of Penselwood and that house became the centre of the story. Many more novels followed, including two written under the pseudonym 'Will Davenport.' He moved into historical non-fiction in 2007 with The Plot against Pepys, co-written with his oldest son, Ben ...more

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Average rating: 3.95 · 2,540 ratings · 403 reviews · 53 distinct works • Similar authors
Ferney
3.95 avg rating — 1,495 ratings — published 1998 — 29 editions
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The Lives She Left Behind
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Silence and Shadows
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The Balloonist
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Hard News
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Knowing Max
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Collateral Damage
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Game Ten
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“Thou art the end and the beginning. Thou carriest me. Thou art the way and the journey’s end. Even so, God, be my companion today.”
― James Long, Ferney: A beautifully written time-slip novel
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“Enough human sorrow had been aired on this bench below them over the centuries for them to understand when a mother mistook a daughter for a part of herself, a part that stood for something she did not like. Two people suffer whenever that mistake is made. Blank”
― James Long, The Lives She Left Behind: A beautifully written and compelling time-slip novel
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