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Richard Marman

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in Swindon, The United Kingdom

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http://www.richardmarman.com

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Fiction, Historical Fiction, Young Adult

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Alistair McLean, Ian Fleming, Bernard Cornwell, Larry McMurtry

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February 2012

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Ex-military and airline pilot, Richard Marman is now a Sunshine Coast based illustrator and author. His work includes illustrating pamphlets, calendars and posters for the Australian Ground Safety Council promoting workplace safety at airport terminals. He has also been a regular cartoonist for several magazines.
Richard illustrated Anna Tullemans and Rhonda Dixon’s successful book on children’s behavioural difficulties, How to Stop You Words Bumping into Someone Else’s, which has been enthusiastically received by carers and educators.
His illustrated books include, A Tale of Two Turtles, A Whale’s Tale and Hannah Meets a Dragon. Richard has written and illustrated eight published novels for young adults: The Wealth, Escape from Fort McCain a ...more

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	McAlister's Way 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	McAlister's Way - Free Serialisation Vol. 01 2.82 avg rating — 11 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
	McAlister's Way 10 - Free Serialisation Download 3.44 avg rating — 9 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
	Dragon Stalkers 4.50 avg rating — 6 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
	McAlister's Way - Free Serialisation Vol. 06 4.60 avg rating — 5 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
	McAlister's Way VOLUME 12 - Free Serialisation Download 4.50 avg rating — 4 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
	McAlister's Way VOLUME 14 - Free Serialisation Download 4.25 avg rating — 4 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
	McAlister's Way - FREE Serialisation Vol. 04 - Chapters 6 and 7 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 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
	McALISTER'S WAY - Free Serialisation Vol 03: Chapters 4 and 5 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 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
	The Wealth it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2011 — 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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'McAlister's Allegiance', the latest action-pact adventure in the Mcalister Line is now available at on-line books stores or through links via my website: www.richardmarman.net

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Richard Marman rated a book really liked it The Master and the Sorceress (Wildecoast Saga #4) by Bernadette Rowley (Goodreads Author)	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
Gorgeous Katrine has decided it's high time to be deflowered and has her heart set on James-the-Jeweller, who is just as handsome as can be, not to mention he's the kingdom's master bling craftsman — and therefore a catch for any self-respecting miss ...more
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Richard Marman rated a book liked it Mystery At Black Boulder (LIN) by Robert J. Martell	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
This book has also been published as 'Red Man's Territory' by A A Glynn and falls right into the dime novel category, which doesn't mean it's bad. In the run up to Wounded Knee, half-breed Indian affairs investigator Lance Costigan is on the lookout f ...more
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Richard Marman rated a book liked it The Iron Water (DI Tom Harper, #4) by Chris Nickson (Goodreads Author)	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
I enjoy late Victorian police procedural mysteries because they don't rely on convenient modern technology to solve the case. This is the first DI Tom Harper mystery I've read although it's number four in the series, which doesn't really matter becau ...more
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Richard Marman rated a book liked it The Secret of Excalibur (Nina Wilde & Eddie Chase, #3) by Andy McDermott	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
Yes, not a bad adventure yarn, but at nearly six hundred pages way overlong for its genre. I found myself regularly skipping sections of dialogue and domestic side-plots. But when the action kicks in, off we go with just about every adventure novel/mo ...more
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Richard Marman rated a book really liked it Last Stands by Michael Walsh (Goodreads Author)	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
'Last Stands' isn't an afternoon page-turner, but a profound work attempting to unravel the mystery of why men fight to the end. The prose is dense at times as Michael Walsh tackles a dozen heroic battles where one side didn't live to tell the tale. ...more
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Richard Marman rated a book it was amazing Nemesis (Courtney publication, #22; Courtney chronological, #8) by Wilbur Smith	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
Published two years after Wilbur Smith's death, much of 'Nemesis' is undoubtedly down to co-writer Tom Harper. It's a big, bold and brash high adventure. There's no point in me rattling off spoilers about the plot. All I need to say is, if you're an h ...more
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Richard Marman rated a book liked it The Hidden Storyteller by Mandy Robotham (Goodreads Author)	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
I've read a number of crime thrillers set in post war Hamburg lately - not for any particular reason, they've just turned up on my reading radar. 'The Hidden Storyteller' is a good solid 'smokin'-hot-journalist-helps-jaded-detective' yarn. There's a nu ...more
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Richard Marman rated a book really liked it Sharpe’s Storm (The Sharpe Series) by Bernard Cornwell (Goodreads Author)	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
As usual Bernard Cornwell has done a stellar job of describing large battle scenes, which is pretty much the gist of 'Sharpe's Storm'. I won't bother you with a synopsis, because Sharpe tragics will know what to expect. This is very much a stand-alone ...more
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Richard Marman rated a book liked it Slaughter of the Mountain Man by William W. Johnstone	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
Although a stand-alone novel, I think I may have been well served reading some of the earlier Smoke Jensen works. He's such a good guy, but boy can he handle a six-shooter. An arch villainous professor wants to take over a chunk of American and form ...more
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