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Richard Marman

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Born

in Swindon, The United Kingdom

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http://www.richardmarman.com

Genre

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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Average rating: 4.17 · 96 ratings · 41 reviews · 46 distinct works

	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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Richard Marman rated a book liked it Operation Barras: The SAS Rescue Mission, Sierra Leone 2000 by Will Fowler	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
Even though Operation Barras is only 200 pages, it's crammed with details about what a basket case post-colonial Africa in general is with Sierra Leone being in a particular parlous state. A bunch of bad-arse bandits called the West Side Boys who are ...more
Feb 23, 2026 08:51PM · 1 like · like · see review
Richard Marman rated a book it was ok Return to Blood Creek by Frank Callan	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
OK this is a bonafide pulp fiction dime novel, but that doesn't mean it's a lost cause unless you're a literary snob and I know there are plenty of them around. It's a classic 'stranger-rides-to-town-to-save-a-damsel-in-distress' as you'd expect from ...more
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Richard Marman rated a book really liked it Top Soldier (Circle V Western) by Johnny D. Boggs	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
Johnny D. Boggs is a respected author of US historical fiction, including westerns which he successfully raises above dime novel status with quality storytelling. 'Top Soldier' is an example, describing Perce Braden' life growing up in on a hardscrabb ...more
Feb 15, 2026 09:12PM · like · see review
Richard Marman rated a book really liked it Once Upon a Time in the North (His Dark Materials #0.5) by Philip Pullman	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 'afternoon-read' novella might surprise anyone who hasn't read Philip Pullman's 'Dark Materials' series. Many people will be familiar with 'Northern lights' better known as 'The Golden Compass' which was made into a movie with a stella cast incl ...more
Feb 08, 2026 09:54PM · like · see review
Richard Marman rated a book it was amazing The Detective by Matthew Reilly	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
After reading 'Cobalt Blue' and 'The Secret Runners of New York' I was worried Matthew Reilly might be going off the boil much like Alistair MacLean did in his later offerings back in the day. But 'The Detective' restored my faith. Sam Speedman a lovea ...more
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Richard Marman rated a book really liked it Raised by Wolves by James Patterson (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
This book falls pretty well into young adult genre because of its teenage protagonists, but older readers should enjoy the story as well. How much is due to co-author Emily Raymond is problematic, although she has teamed up with Patterson on other ti ...more
Jan 30, 2026 07:29PM · like · see review
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
Jan 07, 2026 10:35PM · like · see review
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
Jan 07, 2026 10:09PM · like · see review
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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