James MacManus

James MacManus is the author of four books and the fifth, a novel called Midnight in Berlin, is due to be published in the UK in January 2016 and in the US in the April that year. After a lifelong career as a journalist, which included many years as a foreign correspondent in Africa and the Middle East, James launched a parallel career as an author in 2005. His historical novels, the last two set around WW2, have won praise from critics here and in the US, especially for the quality of the research and the narrative strength of the stories. This website is designed to showcase those stories with reviews and video interviews and provide a glimpse of the film that was made from James' first book Ocean Devil starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers.