The Crimes of Tom Callow

Name: The Crimes of Tom Callow
Price: 6.99 EUR
Author: David McRobbie
ISBN: 9780463763476

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David McRobbie

Bluewater
Paru le : 19/11/2019

In Victorian London, we meet Tom Callow, a young man with a puffed-up sense of entitlement. He believes that an inheritance should be his but instead... > Lire la suite

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In Victorian London, we meet Tom Callow, a young man with a puffed-up sense of entitlement. He believes that an inheritance should be his but instead it goes to Blythe Armstrong, a teenage girl living in far off colonial Sydney. Blythe is invited to England to finalise details of her estate. Tom decides to put things right by travelling incognito to Australia and returning on the same ship as Blythe.
Once at sea he plans to do away with the heiress then back in London he'll lay claim to his rightful inheritance. It's a simple plan which sometimes goes wrong, but it's a long trip home, by sea and overland, giving Tom the opportunity to try again - and again. This is a tale based on historical events of the time - how people travelled between Britain and the Far East in pre-Suez Canal days. It is also a crime novel, with a touch of comedy.

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Date de parution : 19/11/2019
Editeur : Bluewater
ISBN : 978-0-463-76347-6
EAN : 9780463763476
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Biographie de David McRobbie

David McRobbie was born in Glasgow in 1934. After an apprenticeship he joined the Merchant Navy as a marine engineer and sailed the world, or some of it. Eventually he worked his passage to Australia, got married and settled down for a bit only to move to Papua New Guinea where he trained as a teacher. Subsequently he found work as a college lecturer, then a researcher for parliament. Back in Australia in 1974 he joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as a producer of radio and television programs for young people.
In 1990 he gave up this work to become a full time writer for children and young adults. He has written over thirty paperbacks, mainly novels, but some are collections of short stories, plays and 'how-to' books on creative writing. Three of his novels were adapted for television, with David writing all of the sixty-five scripts - the first being The Wayne Manifesto in 1996, followed by Eugénie Sandler, PI then Fergus McPhail.
These shows were broadcast throughout the world, including Australia and Britain on BBC and ITV. The BBC adapted another of David's novels for television - See How They Run, which became the first BBC/ABC co-production. At the age of 79, David is still at work. His most recent paperback novels are Vinnie's War, (Allen & Unwin) published in 2011, about childhood evacuation in the second world war. This was followed by To Brave The Seas, in 2013, a story about a 14-year-old boy who sails in Atlantic convoys during WW2.
Both books are available online.