Stuart Campbell
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Born in London, Stuart Campbell has spent most of his life in Sydney, Australia. He was formerly a university Pro Vice Chancellor and a Professor of Linguistics. His fiction catalogue includes The Siranoush Trilogy, a series of quirky espionage novels set in Cairo, Malta, and Sydney, as well as An Englishman's Guide to Infidelity, a darkly comic psychological thriller set in the English Home Counties. Stuart is regular blogger, often writing at the intersection of linguistics and the craft of fiction.
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Cairo Mon Amour
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Espionage Thriller
October, 1973: Egypt is bracing for war. Cairo private investigator Pierre Farag is tidying up old cases and calling in debts when he stumbles on a plot to murder the notorious film star Zouzou Paris, his childhood sweetheart. At the same time, former British intelligence agents Mark Bellamy and Lucy Vickers are recalled to duty in Cairo to arrange the defection of a Soviet diplomat. As the outbreak of war approaches, Pierre, Lucy, Zouzou and Mark find themselves at the centre of a cynical diplomatic plot that will irrevocably change the course of their lives, and possibly the outcome of the war. Cairo Mon Amour is a gripping thriller and a poignant love story, based on the real-life deception campaign by the Egyptian intelligence services to conceal the date of the attack on Sinai. Espionage fans will be enthralled by Stuart Campbell’s evocation of Cairo during the Yom Kippur War. Cairo Mon Amour is the first novel of the Siranoush Trilogy. 
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Bury Me in Valletta
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Espionage Thriller
It's the long, hot London summer of 1975, and Emma Stonehouse is scared — bloody scared. Twenty-year old student Emma has just read a top-secret document she's stolen from her father in a fit of spite. Ralph Stonehouse is an Under Secretary attached to the Joint Intelligence Office, and his daughter's folly has endangered a delicate undercover operation in the Mediterranean. Emma's saviour comes in the form of Pierre Farag, a Cairo private eye in secret exile after a near-fatal brush with Egyptian Intelligence during the Yom Kippur War. Can Pierre help Emma evade danger and rescue her father from disgrace? And can Pierre win his freedom by salvaging the JIO's operation? This story of love, betrayal and redemption — based on the real-life story of IRA arms smuggling from Libya — invites the reader into the mid-seventies London of Trotskyist politics, music and protest, the opulent bleakness of Gaddafi's Libya, and the funereal grandeur of Valletta. Bury me in Valletta is the second novel of the Siranoush Trilogy. 
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The Sunset Assassin
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Espionage Thriller
Sydney, New Year's Day, 1978. While the beaches teem and the cold beers flow, a clandestine syndicate is planning to overthrow the Australian government. They've commissioned dodgy businessman Kerry Rich to detonate a bomb at the Opera House on Anzac Day. He's passed the job on to Pierre Farag, a reluctant British sleeper agent dumped in Australia. But Pierre and his wife Zouzou want out — out of Sydney and out of doing other people's dirty jobs. Meanwhile investigative journalist Liz Lanzoni has got a sniff of the bomb plot and sees the chance to break the story of the decade. As the day of the blast looms the operation unravels, and Pierre, Zouzou, Liz and Kerry find themselves on the run to a hideout in the northern tropics of Queensland. Soaked in the hedonism and corruption of late seventies Sydney, The Sunset Assassin traces the fine line between loyalty and betrayal. The Sunset Assassin is the third novel of the Siranoush Trilogy. 
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An Englishman's Guide to Infidelity
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Psychological Thriller
Could you live with a would-be murderer? This is the question for Thea and Jack in An Englishman's Guide to Infidelity, a fast-moving psychological drama with an undercurrent of black comedy. Jack, the owner of a failing bookshop, is embezzling from a client. Thea is a philosophy lecturer with a taste for pinching cash. There's something amiss with their marriage, but an occasional spot of larceny provides the frisson to keep it going, as well as the funds for the kids' school fees. Sure, it's petty crime, but nobody's getting hurt. But soon the couple are out of their depth, blackmailed by a figure from the past—a nasty conman who wants Thea in his bed and the keys to the posh house that Jack has inherited. Their salvation comes in the form of Detective Sergeant Fiona Salmon, a recently widowed book-loving gym addict on the edge of an emotional melt-down. A bizarre triangle develops in which Thea, Jack, and Fiona each find their own version of redemption in the face of betrayal and infidelity. An Englishman's Guide to Infidelity is at once a psychological thriller, a crime mystery, a dark comedy, and a love story. 
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