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Robert Shearman
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I'm very lucky - I've a house just about big enough to cope with the demands of my enormous (and ever growing!) book collection. I still have to smuggle them in when my wife isn't there to notice, however; both she and the cat are being edged out of the place! I love books - the smell of a new one, and the touch of an old one that has been loved already. Oh - and they're good for reading, too.

2010 reads:
Under the Dome (Stephen King)
The White Hand and Other Stories (Mark Samuels)
Logicomix (Apostolos Doxiadis)
Miss Herbert (Adam Thirlwell)
The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
Aurora 7 (Thomas Mallon)
The Secret Lives of Buildings (Edward Hollis)
Northwest Passages (Barbara Roden)
The Devil's Apprentice (Amanda Hemingway)
Sourdough and Other Stories (Angela Slatter)
Demons in the Spring (Joe Meno) *****
Alone in Berlin (Hans Fallada) *****
Box Office Poison (Alex Robinson)
Monologue, Interlude, Monologue (Kirpal Singh)
Adolf (Osamu Tezuka) *****
One Pair of Hands (Monica Dickens)
The Alley Cat (Yves Beauchemin)
Vardoger (Stephen Volk)
The Convent (Panos Karnezis)
Skippy Dies (Paul Murray) *****
Lucky Hans (Kurt Schwitters)
Saving Rome (Megan K Williams)
Blockade Billy (Stephen King)
The Cranes That Build the Cranes (Jeremy Dyson)
Nothing to Be Frightened Of (Julian Barnes) *****
Zoo (Otsuichi)
And Another Thing (Eoin Colfer)
Red Light Winter (Adam Rapp)
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth (Kevin Wilson) *****
2666 (Roberto Bolano)
The Language of Dying (Sarah Pinborough) *****
Objects of Worship (Claude Lalumiere)
The Lost Books of the Odyssey (Zachary Mason) *****
Suite Francaise (Irene Nemirovsky)
About Me
My name's Rob - and I'm a writer living in London. I'm best known, I expect, for my work on Doctor Who - I brought the Daleks back to the screen to menace Christopher Eccleston a few years back! But I dabble in *everything* - I do radio, theatre, you name it. And I'm proudest of my fiction. My first book, Tiny Deaths, a collection of rather quirky short stories, won the World Fantasy Award in 2008. And my second collection, Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical, which is slightly quirkier, has just won the Edge Hill Reader's Prize and the Shirley Jackson Award. Do consider giving them a read, if the very word 'quirky' doesn't make you feel sick to the stomach!
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