Location: Australia
Member Since:
Feb. 27, 2013
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Robert Nicholls
Biography
I am a Canadian born Aussie, having emigrated with my wife from the cold wet coast of British Columbia to the warm wet coast of North Queensland in 1975. We both worked in the education system, in a Whitsunday high school, she in Science and I in English and History, for the following 35 years. The Whitsunday coast is as beautiful and its small rural towns (hello Proserpine!) as welcoming and nourishing as anywhere in the world. Retirement, however, saw us move to windy Ballarat in Victoria, to be closer to family. A lovely little city with much to offer.
I write because I love to write. I love the music of the words assembled by writers like J.P. Donleavy, Carol Shields and Tom Robbins. I also love to sculpt, in wood and stone, because things that can be made with, and held in, the hands are good for the soul.
I write because I love to write. I love the music of the words assembled by writers like J.P. Donleavy, Carol Shields and Tom Robbins. I also love to sculpt, in wood and stone, because things that can be made with, and held in, the hands are good for the soul.
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Books
Janszoon, Jabar and the Crabpot
by Robert Nicholls
Price:
Free!
Words: 137,600.
Language:
English.
Published: June 7, 2021
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Categories:
Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general, Fiction » Adventure » General
Rural Queensland. A guilt-ridden, tenaciously cynical middle-aged teacher falls for a wantonly impetuous, seemingly abandoned mother of teenagers. His overly-anxious desire to show himself a better man than he is, draws him into her search for her missing husband, and also into clumsy efforts to address social injustice .Three blurred visions of love. Sometimes the vision is enough; sometimes not
Neville the Less
by Robert Nicholls
Price:
Free!
Words: 97,380.
Language:
English.
Published: September 19, 2015
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Categories:
Fiction » Literature » Literary
(5.00 from 1 review)
Seven year old Neville is the world's most harmless person. Not even the return from Afghanistan of his war-damaged father, the Quiet Man, can alter his determination to stay that way. In the six yards of his Australian neighborhood, however, familiar prejudices, fears and obsessions provoke grim imaginings in adults and children alike until, with darkly comic inevitability, war comes to town.
Connections
by Robert Nicholls
Price:
Free!
Words: 40,380.
Language:
Australian English.
Published: May 12, 2013
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Categories:
Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author
"In (Tower Zero) as in his other stories, Nicholls introduces the drug of compulsion - a prescription you cannot get over the counter." (Bruce Pascoe, Editor, 'Australian Short Stories' No. 53). Fifteen short stories to remind us that no life, whether rough or fastidious, is without its extraordinary moments.
Children of Clun
by Robert Nicholls
Price:
Free!
Words: 116,140.
Language:
English.
Published: February 27, 2013
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Categories:
Fiction » Young adult or teen » Historical
(4.33 from 3 reviews)
1421. Henry IV of England is at war, but planning a bright new future for his kingdom, with justice and mercy for all. In the remote Welsh Borderlands, however, the old ways and the old enemies don't yield easily. And the children of Clun, both young and ancient, are set to ensure that the future is not solely in the hands of kings.
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Smashwords book reviews by Robert Nicholls
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Murder Justified
on Oct. 05, 2013
Richly detailed, almost to the point of distraction by times. But the protagonists work well together and the Lower Mainland setting (once familiar to this reviewer) is well used. Rob Nicholls
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An American in St. Petersburg
on June 01, 2021
Good fun. RN