Client details
Duncan Campbell
| Sarah Ballard | Assistant: Lara Hughes-Young |
Duncan Campbell is a freelance journalist and writer who worked for the Guardian for more than 20 years as crime correspondent, Los Angeles correspondent and senior correspondent. He previously worked as news editor for Time Out and City Limits and as a reporter for LBC radio and the London Daily News. He has written seven books, including three non-fiction books on crime - That Was Business, This Is Personal; The Underworld; and A Stranger and Afraid. He has also written two novels, The Paradise Trail and If It Bleeds. For film, theatre and TV enquiries, please contact Charles Walker at United Agents. Latest publication: IF IT BLEEDS - HEADLINE, 5 MARCH 2009 “If It Bleeds sparkles with authenticity” Times |
If It Bleeds 
The Paradise Trail
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| THE PARADISE TRAIL 2008 HEADLINE | Calcutta 1971. A city in black-out as India declares war on Pakistan. Even so, the backpackers who end up in the flea-pit Lux Hotel are determined to have a good time. That is, until two mysterious deaths amongst them change their lives forever. Thrown together in the city are - Anand, the jazz-loving insomniac hotelier; Gordon, one of the hotel’s dope-smoking guests; the philandering journalist Hugh, covering his first war; Britt, a Californian photographer with a jealous boyfriend; and the enigmatic Freddie Braintree, who interprets life through the lyrics of Bob Dylan and the Incredible String Band. Is it possible that one of them is behind the deaths? And why will it take more than three decades and three continents to find out? |
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| A STRANGER AND AFRAID 1997 MACMILLAN | The story of Caroline Beale, a 30-year-old British health worker who was arrested in September 1994 at JFK airport in New York with the body of her dead baby for whose murder she was charged and sent to the notorious Rikers Island jail. The account includes interviews with people involved in the case, including Caroline herself. |
| THE UNDERWORLD 1994 BBC BOOKS | This work tells the story of modern British crime, from the racetrack gangs and safe-crackers of the 1930s to the hitmen and drug-smugglers of the 1990s. The author makes use of original interviews with many participants in the television series on which the book is based. |
| THAT WAS BUSINESS, THIS IS PERSONAL 1990 SECKER & WARBURG | A series of interviews with people involved with crime on both sides of the law. By means of 23 interviews, Campbell gives the reader a revealing insight into the netherworld of crime and demonstrates that the nature of crime is changing. Gone are the days of "family firms" who control whole areas by fear and coercion; this is an age of multi-national, million-pound, quasi-legitimate crime, of new-age criminals as yet unmatched by new-age policemen. |
| Charles Walker | +44 (0) 20 3214 0874 |
Duncan Campbell is a freelance journalist and writer who worked for the Guardian for more than 20 years as crime correspondent, Los Angeles correspondent and senior correspondent. He previously worked as news editor for Time Out and City Limits and as a reporter for LBC radio and the London Daily News. He has written seven books, including three non-fiction books on crime - That Was Business, This Is Personal; The Underworld; and A Stranger and Afraid. He has also written two novels, The Paradise Trail and If It Bleeds |
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| MY GRANNY MADE ME AN ANARCHIST (2009) | Easter Partisan Ltd | Feature aptation of the book by Stuart Christie. Co-written with Ronan Bennett |
