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Robert Dodds

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Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction, Humor and Comedy

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Charles Dickens, P.G. Wodehouse and Hilary Mantel

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Robert Dodds writes for both adults and children. His work is not easy to categorize, as he does not stick to a single genre. However, recurring characteristics are the humorous and the macabre.
His four novels for adults are: 'The Art School Murders' and 'Sitting Duck' - both blackly comic murder stories; 'Paradise Por Favor' - a humorous novel set in Spain, and the historical novel 'The Garden of Earthly Delights', inspired by the work of the 15th Century artist Hieronymus Bosch. His two short story collections are 'Rattlesnake and Other Tales' (Polygon) and 'Secret Sharers'. Many of his short stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio Four.
For children, 'The Midnight Clowns' (Andersen Press) was short-listed for the Kathleen Fidler Award, a ...more

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	The Garden of Earthly Delights 3.99 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paradise Por Favor 3.85 avg rating — 60 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sitting Duck 3.74 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Haunted Mobile 2.93 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Murrian 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Art School Murders 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nightland 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Secret of Iguando really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rattlesnake and Other Tales 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Midnight Clowns 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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All Kindle editions of my books are free to download for a few days, including my new novel 'Paradise Por Favor'. The only exception is 'The Garden of Earthly Delights', which is temporarily available at the reduced price of 99c/99p

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The Diversity of Life (Penguin Press Science)

by Edward O. Wilson

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Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking

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I respect what Faulks tries to do in this novel, and he displays a range of insights into the lives and thoughts of a very varied cross-section of Londoners. However, it's all a bit 'painting by numbers' as he ticks off all the boxes (to mix metaphor ...more
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A yarn, full of improbable events that Forester somehow makes (almost) believable. The characters are somewhat stereotypical, but this is a novel of adventure and action, and we are carried along pell-mell by the plot like the eponymous boat is carri ...more
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Unusual characters and situations, often surprising, and always well imagined. Most of the stories are fragments of lives rather than having a beginning, middle, and end, and often leave a question mark hanging in the air. Intriguing.
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A fine yarn. Although the story unfolds along predictable lines, it's a page-turner. Historical veracity is dubious, but it paints a believable picture of the tensions between the Norman overlords and the Anglo-Saxon underclass in the decades that fo ...more
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An entertaining caper, with amusing incidents and characters. Not much substance, but well-written, and introducing me to a lot of new Spanish vocabulary!
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