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Robert Reid

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Robert (Bob) Reid grew up in Scotland’s beautiful border country. Hawick was home until it was time to go to university in Edinburgh. A degree and a PhD in Chemistry followed. It was in Edinburgh that Bob met and married Phyllis. Work opportunities took them south, and their son Simon was born in Cheshire and their daughter Charis some years later in Swindon. Highworth, near Swindon, became home in 1982. It still is home and has become a special place to Bob and Phyllis.
Bob’s career of forty years was initially in technical management, then general management and business consulting. Work generally took priority over creativity. Semi-retirement in early 2018 created the time, family and friends the encouragement, for Bob to develop his wri
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I am increasingly coming to the conclusion that the “To Read” shelves on the Goodreads platform are only there to enable PR companies to deliver the shelf numbers they promise for the fees they take from authors. A sophisticated con? How have I come to this conclusion? Well I apparently have my novels on 38,000 “to read” shelves. I have probably sold less than 400 copies. Of course the same is in Read more of this blog post »
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A brilliant narrative telling the life of Henry V. The medieval world in all its gory is brought spectacularly to life. The personality of Henry the boy and the man is intimately crafted. I enjoyed the journey through medieval England and France. My ...more
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“At seventeen the young woman had worked out how to improve her future prospects; she would seduce the Prince.”
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“In Esimore, Sulux was returning from tending to the herd as it grazed the summer pastures. The lone traveller was dressed in light blue clothing that shimmered white in the evening sun. The old prophesies had finally been fulfilled.”
Robert Reid, White Light Red Fire

“Some twenty-five miles to the north, the army of Bala was making progress as fast as it could towards the Coe Mountains. When the thunderous noise of the destruction in the Pass of Ing reached them, they turned to see the pass erupting like an angry volcano. The flames, even at this distance, were terrifying and shock was etched on every face as each man considered the defiant bravery of the day before, a bravery that could have had them consumed by withering fire.
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Robert Reid, White Light Red Fire

“It is all around us now, in one God-forsaken territory after another. Blood sacrifice in the name of a better future. Only the dead like Tollund Man have seen the end of it. All we seem to have learned so far is that such killing never ends, never will.”
Neil Oliver, Wisdom of the Ancients: Life lessons from our distant past

“Is there anything more dangerous than dissatisfied and irresponsible gods who don't know what they want?”
Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“In order to understand how thousands of isolated cultures coalesced over time to form the global village of today, we must take into account the role of gold and silver, but we cannot disregard the equally crucial role of steel”
Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“His gaze lingered on the ruins of the keep. Twenty-two years ago , he had made a promise in the shadow of those walls - a promise to uphold his family's claim to the throne.
In the end, he had done so much more than that. In the end, he had upheld his nation's claim to their kingdom.”
Robyn Young, Kingdom

“In so far as a story of the world can have a beginning, let it begin with Enheduanna , the first named poet.”
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