James W. Macnutt is author of seven non-fiction books. Mr. Macnutt's first novel
was published in November 2017 with the title On Five Dollars a Day/An Innocent
Abroad Summer 1965. His earlier publications related to historical architecture, furniture
and maps in separate volumes.
Mr. Macnutt is married with two children Jane and Carolyn and grandfather of two
girls Charlotte and Emma and two boys Mark and Jack.
Writing has been a major part of Mr. Macnutt's life having been a Legislative
Counsel, practising barrister and solicitor and author of various articles on historical
matters.
The Spectre of Stanhope Lane is in tradition of Scottish supernatural beliefs and
encounters. It is set in one of the earliest Scottish settlements in Canada.
In the years since the events of The Odessa Connection, Isaac Menshive and Will McIntosh have settled into new and contrasting roles. Isaac, with his priorities firmly centred on his young and growing family in London, has taken a back seat in running the Menshive Trust, the vast and burdensome busi...
Berlin, 2005: Will MacIntosh – the Canadian protagonist of James Macnutt’s previous, acclaimed, novel On Five Dollars a Day – is now a seasoned lawyer of almost 40 years who has allowed himself a three-month sabbatical in Europe. He intends to indulge his abiding fascination with European his...
Macnutt has done it! He has made the foray from his previous architectural, travel,and cultural books into a work of unique fiction and has done it with great skill. TheSpectre of Stanhope Farm is written with imagination, creativity, and amazing insight andattention to historical detail and researc...
2008: Almost three years have passed since the tumultuous events outlined in The Mendelssohn Connection, which thrust the unwilling Isaac Menshive into a position of global responsibility as the head of a fabulously wealthy family trust. Isaac now lives quietly, if luxuriously, in a dacha in the wes...
