R. Eric Swanepoel


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R. Eric Swanepoel is an Edinburgh-born and -based writer who grew up in Zimbabwe and South Africa. He has lived in Paris and worked all over Great Britain as a veterinarian, has taught English to speakers of other languages and holds an M.Sc. in ecology and a Ph.D. in ecotoxicology (he studied the effects of roofing timber treatments on bats).

Eric worked as a researcher and office manager for a Member of the Scottish Parliament for four years and was a member of the committee of the Society of Authors in Scotland for three. He helps people with their biographies and co-wrote and published Angela Bayley’s 'Disruptive', described by Rostrum magazine as ‘an invaluable resource, really important for practitioners in child protection’.

Eric admits to being ‘Josh Artmeier’, the author of the controversial book about the veterinary profession 'Pet Hates, The Shocking Truth About Pets and Vets', published by Argyll in 2006.

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Disruptive: How I triumphed over years of abuse from those who were supposed to protect me    by Angela Bayley
Price: $4.69 USD. 149680 words. Published by R. Eric Swanepoel on November 30, 2011. .

Abuse, betrayal and negligence fail to break Angela's spirit. A sensitive and intelligent young girl and talented athlete, she is myopically labelled 'disruptive' by the incompetent authorities. Though at times her beloved cat and budgie seem to be the only reasons to keep going, she somehow pulls through. Then, years later, a happy paramedic, she is sexually assaulted by a colleague...

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Saving the World    by R. Eric Swanepoel
Price: $4.69 USD. 131220 words. Published on September 19, 2011. Fiction.

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'Business as Unusual' meets 'The World According to Garp' and 'Adrian Mole' meets 'No Logo' as 'Saving the World' charts the progress of Nathaniel Papulous from a dysfunctional childhood in English suburbia to the frontlines of the battle against the global tyranny of the transnational corporations.

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