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James MacManus is the Managing Director of the Times Literary Supplement of London and the author of five books.His first Ocean Devil, a non fiction account of the heroic adventures in 1930s China of a young Englishman called George Hogg, was made into a film called The Children of Huang Shi or Children of the Silk Road.Directed by Roger Spottiswoode ( Tomorow Never Dies) the film starred Jonathan Rhys Meyers.
James' first novel titled On the Broken Shore in the UK and the Language of the Sea in the US was set in Cape Cod and told the story of a marine scientist who fell overboard during a research trip off the coast and found himself living with a colony of seals ,the very creatures he was studying.
The next book,Black Venus, set in 19th century Paris, was based on the life of the poet Charles Baudelaire and his tormented affair with Jeanne Duval, the woman who inspired his greatest work. and the most famos poetry in the French language Les Fleurs du Mal.
Two works of historical fiction followed, Sleep in Peace Tonight, and Midnight in Berlin.
James was born in 1943 and has been a journalist for much of his working life.He was a foreign corrspondent in Africa and the Middle East for The Guardian newspaper and later a diplomatic correspondent for The Daily Telegraph of London.He has been married and divorced twice and has three grown up chidren
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