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Robin Crumby

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in London, The United Kingdom

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Robin Crumby is the British author of The Hurst Chronicles, a post-apocalyptic series set on the south coast of England in the aftermath of a deadly flu pandemic. Since reading John Wyndham’s Day of the Triffids as a child, Robin became fascinated by end of the world dystopian literature and was inspired to start writing by Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven. Why? Because post-apocalyptic fiction fires the imagination like nothing else. Pondering what comes next, who would survive, what would life look like? Much of the best fiction in this popular genre focuses on brain-eating zombies or events unfolding in the USA, so Robin determined to write a story set in the UK. His Eureka moment came wandering the s ...more

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	Hurst (The Hurst Chronicles #1) 3.83 avg rating — 536 ratings — published 2016 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Congo Variant 4.10 avg rating — 167 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sentinel (The Hurst Chronicles #2) 4.21 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wildfire (The Hurst Chronicles #3) 4.35 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harbinger (The Hurst Chronicles #4) 4.39 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hurst Chronicles Boxset: Books 1-3 4.19 avg rating — 31 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadow Vector: A Blake Harris Thriller 4.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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New Audiobook of ‘Hurst’ book one now available

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Thrilled to announce that the new audiobook version of ‘Hurst’, book one in the series, is now live and available to buy from Amazon/Audible. Read by the amazingly talented Bethan Dixon Bate. This is Bethan’s first audiobook (you’d never know though) but she’s done lots of voice-overs for radio, as well as video games and TV – see list below. Her professional bio rightly says that

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The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich

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