Derek Robinson: Works, and a List of Books by Author Derek Robinson

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Derek Robinson (born 1932) is a British author best known for his military aviation novels full of black humour. He has also written several books on some of the more sordid events in the history of Bristol, his home town, as well as guides to rugby. He was nominated for the Booker Prize in 1971 for his first novel, Goshawk Squadron.

After attending Cotham Grammar School, Robinson served in the Royal Air Force as a fighter plotter, during his National Service. He has a History degree from Cambridge University, where he attended Downing College, has worked in advertising in the UK and the US and as a broadcaster on radio and television. He was a qualified rugby referee for over thirty years and is a life member of Bristol Society of Rugby Referees. He was married in 1964.

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Novels set in squadron of the Royal Flying Corps (later the Royal Air Force) during the First World War:

Goshawk Squadron (1971) is set in 1918 with the squadron flying the S.E.5a.
War Story (1987) is set in 1916 with Hornet Squadron flying the F.E.2b. and F.E.2d
Hornet's Sting (1999) is set in 1917 with Hornet Squadron flying the Sopwith Pup and the Bristol F.2B Fighter.

Novels set in RAF squadrons during the Second World War:

Piece of Cake (1983) is set during the Phoney War and Battle of Britain with Hornet Squadron flying the Hurricane. The TV mini-series (1988) with the same name is based on this book.
A Good Clean Fight (1993) covers the Desert Air Force during 1942 with Hornet Squadron flying the Curtiss Tomahawk.
Damned Good Show (2002) covers RAF Bomber Command's early bomber operations and has fictional No. 409 Squadron RAF flying the Handley Page Hampden.
Hullo Russia, Goodbye England (2008), self-published and available from his website. It begins in 1943, as Silk (the main protagonist from "Damned Good Show") is on his second tour, and moves into the early 1960s when he rejoins the RAF as an Avro Vulcan pilot during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Novels featuring Luis Cabrillo:

The Eldorado Network (1979), about counter-espionage in WWII Spain and Portugal.
Artillery of Lies (1991), set mostly in England and Germany.
Red Rag Blues (2006), about espionage and the McCarthy witchhunts in 1950's America.
Operation Bamboozle (2009), Luis Cabrillo travel to Las Vegas and tangles with the Mob. Self-published and available from his website.

Other books include:

Son of Bristle (1971) Abson Books. A guide to Bristle azit's poke.
Rotten with Honour (1973), about Cold War-espionage.
Kramer's War (1977) is set on the island of Jersey in 1944.
Run with the Ball (1984). Collins. Guide to Rugby Union play.
The Best Green Walks in Bristol (1994). Westcountry Books. Local walking guide.
A Load of Old Bristle: Krek Waiter's Peak Bristle (2002). Robinson, Derek, and Wiltshire, Vic. Countryside Books. More infermasun on howter's peak Bristle.
Kentucky Blues(2002), about life in a nineteenth-century American town.
Sick Sentries of Bristle (2004). Countryside Books. "A slapstick dash through 600 years of local excitements".
Invasion, 1940 (2005), a non-fiction work about World War II which aims to debunk "two powerful myths": first, that the RAF alone prevented an invasion of Great Britain by Hitler's Germany; and second, that such an invasion force would inevitably have conquered Britain.
A Darker History of Bristol (2005). Countryside Books. "A fair share of cruel, inglorious and scandalous episodes that are generally little referred to".
A Player's Guide to the Laws (2005). HarperCollinsWillow. The laws of the game made simple.
Better Rugby Refereeing (2007), co-authored with Ed Morrison.

Total Books: 109

2014 - Splendid Little War (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781780878096
ISBN-10: 1780878095

2013 - Hornet's Sting (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780857052254
ISBN-10: 085705225X
Genre: Literature & Fiction

2013 - War Story (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780857052261
ISBN-10: 0857052268
Genre: Literature & Fiction

2012 - Damned Good Show (Paperback) → Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9780857051172
ISBN-10: 0857051172
Genre: Literature & Fiction

2012 - A Good Clean Fight (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780857051189
ISBN-10: 0857051180
Genre: Literature & Fiction

2012 - Piece of Cake [R.A.F. Quartet] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780857050939
ISBN-10: 0857050931
Genre: Literature & Fiction

2011 - Hullo Russia Goodbye England (Paperback) → Audio Cassette, Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9780857050922
ISBN-10: 0857050923
Genre: Literature & Fiction

2009 - Rugby a Player's Guide to the Laws (Paperback) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780007330416
ISBN-10: 0007330413
Genre: Sports & Outdoors

2009 - Migraine Art the Migraine Experience From Within (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781556436727
ISBN-10: 1556436726
Genre: Arts & Photography

2006 - Invasion 1940 (Paperback) → Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781845294410
ISBN-10: 1845294416
Genre: History

2006 - Red Rag Blues (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781845292997
ISBN-10: 1845292995
Genre: Literature & Fiction

2005 - Goshawk Squadron (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781845291723
ISBN-10: 1845291727
Genre: Literature & Fiction

2005 - Invasion 1940 Did the Battle of Britain Alone Stop Hitler (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780786716180
ISBN-10: 0786716185
Genre: History

Currently 5/5 Stars.

2004 - Goshawk Squadron [Cassell Military Classics] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780304356430
ISBN-10: 0304356433
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Currently 4/5 Stars.

2003 - Analysis on Lie Groups with Polynomial Growth (Hardcover) → Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780817632250
ISBN-10: 0817632255
Genres: Computers & Technology, Nonfiction, Science & Math, Engineering & Transportation

2003 - Kentucky Blues [Cassell Military Paperbacks S.] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780304365661
ISBN-10: 0304365661
Genre: Literature & Fiction

2002 - A Load of Old Bristle Krek Waiter's Peak Bristle [Local Dialect] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781853067921
ISBN-10: 185306792X
Genres: History, Reference, Humor & Entertainment

2002 - Bird Poems an Aviary (Paperback)

2001 - Still in the Dreamtime (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781896860992
ISBN-10: 1896860990

2001 - Cassell Military Classics War Story [Cassell Military Paperbacks] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780304356423
ISBN-10: 0304356425
Genre: Literature & Fiction