Robin Lloyd-Jones
Home address:
26 East Clyde Street, Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, G84 7PG, ScotlandTelephone:
01436 672010Email:
robinlj34@yahoo.comWebsite:
- www.robinlloyd-jones.comBRAW network:
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Robin writes novels (teenage and adult), short stories, radio drama and non-fiction. He has won awards for his novels and for his radio drama and two of his novels have been entered for the Booker Prize. For several years Robin tutored evening classes in creative writing at Glasgow University. Robin lives in Helensburgh with his wife and two cats. He also enjoys mountaineering, sea kayaking, travelling, photography and chess.
About writer's work:
Three recurring themes in much of my fiction are (i) the wisdom of having doubts and of not being certain you are right; (ii) the relationship between illusion and reality; (iii) trickster figures.I prefer historical themes to contemporary ones. My non-fiction writing is mainly about the environment and the wilderness.
My novel Lord of the Dance won the BBC Bookshelf First Novel Competition (1982). My radio drama Ice in Wonderland won the Radio Times Best Drama Award 1992.
My article Ben Ime by Moonlight was included in the anthology of mountain writing, The Winding Trail. My children’s book, Where the Forest and the Garden Meet was shortlisted for the Children’s Librarians’ Award UK, and my teenage novel, Red Fox Running was listed for the Manchester Children’s Book Award.
About writer's events and projects:
I am available to do talks, readings and workshops. Topics (i) any aspect of how to write fiction or non-fiction; (ii) my own books (with readings); (iii) a digital slide show ‘Wilderness and Words’ linking images and my wilderness writing; (iv) workshops as part of Scottish PEN’s Penpower project aimed at stimulating creative writing and discussion through topics related to issues of human rights and freedom of expression.
Language:
EnglishAge groups:
Teens, AdultsBooks written
Robin Lloyd-Jones takes us on many memorable expeditions in his sea kayak to wild and beautiful shores. With him we experience the magic of remote islands, the adventure of long sea crossings, the ...
From the outside, most of us have caught brief but shocking glimpses of South America's street children. In these short stories the author shows us, vividly and authentically, the veiw from the ...
Turreted fairytale peaks, glistening snowfields, waterfalls plunging over immense cliffs into the sea, a million tons of ice capsizing - this is the setting for "Fallen Pieces of the Moon", ...
TTwo Englishmen are travelling the dusty roads of 16th century India, one to find a cure for his wife's leprosy, the other to convert 'the heathen' to Christianity. India is in turmoil for there ...
A coming of age, survival tale set in the fascinating, rarely glimpsed world of Victorian Arctic exploration.
Adam's father was a whaler in the Arctic - until the time, he never came back. ...
To the frontier town of Ophir in Alaska comes Artemus Dodd, actor, conman, gambler. Patent medicines are his speciality and Lady Luck his dream.
This was entered for the Booker Prize
This was entered for the Booker Prize
Timmo the cat always ignored the families that moved in and out of the army bungalow in India. They never stayed long anyway. The garden was his domain. But when the Skinner family moved in it was ...
