Robert John Goddard

• Mar-2020
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It is summer 1990, and novelist, Tommy Mostyn, decides to spend his last holiday in Verona, Italy. He sees his visit as a reassessment of a time in which he experienced true happiness through first love. Or did he? Tommy needs to know whether his mem...

• Jan-2017
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Late autumn, 2015, in Tannenheim, Germany. Lost property dealer, Montgomery (Monty) Bradley Brodnitz, decides to visit Tannenberg castle to watch the arrival of the long-awaited refugees. The violence he witnesses forces him to re-evaluate his life a...

• Apr-2015
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In April 1945, two dead German soldiers are brought into the church in the village of Hildrizhausen. In November 1999, Martin Slater discovers some old letters in the attic of his house in Berkshire, England. The letters suggest that Martin's mother ...

• Feb-2015
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The Italian town of Bellano has everything going for it: a rich history, a modern prosperity and The Conrad School of Languages. One morning, a prominent member of the community is brutally murdered and one of the school’s owners is the chief suspe...

• Sep-2014
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When Nicholas arrives at the funeral of his father - the author Charles Saddler (1920-2010) - he is greeted with suspicion by the half-siblings he has never met and fascinated by the behaviour of his half-sister, Josie. Their father's wish that his a...

• Aug-2014
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Whispers in the Hearts of Men is a provocative account of Richard Chambers's ordeal as a victim of kidnap in the Middle-East and his reactions to the desperate and hopeless situation. The book also explores the motivation of the kidnappers, who are r...

• Jul-2014
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The short stories in this collection were written between 1992 and 1997. There is no theme joining them together. The only thing they have in common is that all were published in the small press and/or read on BBC Radio. Most of them are based on eit...