Robin Richards

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Robin Richards

Known for mixing history, travel, and sharp observation, this British writer has published award-winning books as well as articles and stories across a wide range of magazines and journals. His work often turns unusual real-life subjects into lively, approachable reads.

1 Audiobook

Thirty Canadian V.Cs., 23d April 1915 to 30th March 1918

Thirty Canadian V.Cs., 23d April 1915 to 30th March 1918

by Canadian War Records Office, Military Historian Stuart Martin, Robin Richards, Theodore Goodridge Roberts

About the author

Robin Richards is a British author whose books range from travel writing and local history to fiction and social research. Confirmed titles linked to his name include The Great Billy Butlin Race, LE-JOG-ed: A Mid-lifer’s Trek from Land’s End to John O’Groats, The Piltdown Picasso, and Two Bridges over Menai.

According to his publisher biography, he has self-published two award-winning books and has written more than 20 articles or stories for publications including the Journal of Advanced Nursing, Debut, and The Dalesman. That same biography notes that the opening chapter of The Great Billy Butlin Race, titled The Footsloggers, was shortlisted in July 2019 for the inaugural Writers & Artists Working-Class Writers’ Prize.

His body of work suggests a writer drawn to overlooked corners of real life: long-distance walking, regional places, eccentric history, and everyday people. Whether he is writing nonfiction or fiction, the appeal seems to lie in the same quality: curiosity, warmth, and a feel for stories that might otherwise be forgotten.