About Robert
Hello, and thanks for visiting my blog.
I started writing in 1986 in Vienna. One night, my girlfriend was late for a date. While I waited, I had an idea that turned into my first novel. When I lived in Moscow 1992-95, someone told me to “write about what you know”. I wrote a thriller set in early 1990s Russia.
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Latest Articles
The Zhivago Affair: how censorship worked in Soviet Russia
“How many men are able to go boldly, and uprightly, to the scaffold? Unfortunately, I do not belong to their number” – Sergei Nikiforov, English
Quotations from Orlando: still worth reading?
Quotations from “Orlando” show Virginia Woolf’s classic has not lost its power to shock and entertain, even as its language and content dates. What to
How to get published: introducing my Istanbul thriller PALLADIUM
How to get published: my Istanbul thriller PALLADIUM is a white-knuckle ride to save a city from destruction In 2011 I visited Istanbul. At the
Middlemarch quotations
This is my fourth and final collection of Middlemarch quotations. The book teems with exquisite epigrams, insights and laugh-out-loud observations. Read, and relish. I’ve published
CORONA CRIME Chapter 5: “The Pope was 124 when he died”
In Chapter 5 of “Corona Crime”, the ultimate post-coronavirus sci-fi thriller, we learn that the number of victims about to die at the Hughes Procreation
Middlemarch characters: a firework display
George Eliot’s Middlemarch contains an army of elegantly-sketched characters the equal of anything in Dickens. Let’s take a look. My post Middlemarch by George Eliot:
Pleasure Pathways
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