Welcome to Russell Campbell's website

Bio

Raised in the Highlands of Scotland, Russell Campbell has been a university business school lecturer for more than twenty years, including a seven-year spell running a Master’s degree in International Marketing delivered in Scotland and in Athens.  He has written for both of Scotland’s leading quality newspapers, The Herald and The Scotsman, and has also contributed to the (Glasgow) Evening Times. Russell has also been a part-time joke writer for the greeting card industry, and a cartoonist, including work for Hallmark USA and contributions to leading newspapers and business publications.

Russell is married with two children and lives in a small Scottish village where the inhabitants are no less exposed to the emotions of greed and fear...

Fool Me Fool you

Fool Me Fool You is Russell's latest novel...published Autumn 2016

Tired with your job? Driven crazy by your boss? Tempted to lie and cheat?

Discontent with his role as a public relations executive at a blue chip Edinburgh-based bank, avarice and boredom lure Ally Forbes into the world of corporate deception. A proposition from a confident new friend opens the door to an intriguing sting.

The plan—to manipulate customers into paying millions for the bank’s charity foundation while simultaneously skimming a slice of the action—seems too good to be true, and when encouraged by his girlfriend and pressured by his boss, he becomes entwined in the scheme. But who’s fooling whom?

As things begin to spiral out of control and the police enter the fray, Ally is forced into new levels of deception to conceal the real truth behind events...

Available in selected stores and on Amazon UK at £8.99 paperback and £1.49 Kindle.

Movers & Shirkers

Russell published his first novel, Movers & Shirkers, in 2014.

Insider trading is a victimless crime. Or so you believed.  If you enjoy a crime-related thriller with a slightly different twist, Movers & Shirkers might keep you turning the page. Based on the theme of insider trading, it was inspired by two emotions, greed and fear, which of course drive not only stock markets in general, but also individual motivations towards lying and cheating to make money. 

How many of us would use inside information if we felt we wouldn’t be caught? The title of the novel came from a business-themed cartoon strip Russell produced previously for The Herald newspaper, as it neatly summed up the characters in the book and why they might behave as they did.

Movers & Shirkers is avalable from Amazon in both paperback (£7.99/ $11.99) and Kindle from (£2.25/ $2.99).