Michael Robotham





Michael Robotham

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January 01, 1960 in Australia

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Born in Australia in November 1960, Michael Robotham grew up in small country towns that had more dogs than people and more flies than dogs. He escaped in 1979 and became a cadet journalist on an afternoon newspaper in Sydney.

For the next fourteen years he worked for newspapers in Australia, Europe, Africa and America. As a senior feature writer for the UK’s Mail on Sunday he was among the first people to view the letters and diaries of Czar Nicholas II and his wife Empress Alexandra, unearthed in the Moscow State Archives in 1991. He also gained access to Stalin’s Hitler files, which had been missing for nearly fifty years until a cleaner stumbled upon a cardboard box that had been misplaced and misfiled.

In 1993 he quit journalism to becom...more


Average rating: 3.80 · 4,024 ratings · 780 reviews · 23 distinct works
Shatter (Joseph O'Loughlin,...
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Suspect (Joseph O'Loughlin,...
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Lost (Joseph O'Loughlin, #2)
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 595 ratings — published 2007 — 24 editions
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Bleed for Me (Joseph O'Loug...
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 540 ratings — published 2010 — 11 editions
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The Night Ferry
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 478 ratings — published 2007 — 15 editions
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The Wreckage: A Thriller
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 308 ratings — published 2011 — 11 editions
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Bombproof
3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions
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The Drowning Man ;Bombproof
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2011
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3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2010
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Say You're Sorry
4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — expected publication 2012 — 3 editions
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“Remember, the worst hour of your life only lasts for sixty minutes. (292)”
Michael Robotham, Suspect

“One of the strange things about friendship is that time together isn't cancelled out by time apart. One doesn't erase the other or balance it on some invisible scale. You can spend a few hours with someone and they will change your life, or you can spend a lifetime with a person and remain unchanged.”
Michael Robotham, The Night Ferry

“Everyone thinks I'm so strong. They expect me to face autumns and winters like that and bitch-slap them down; make them come to heel. I'm not so strong. I only pretend.”
Michael Robotham, The Night Ferry

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