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Bob Denton

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Born

in Bristol, The United Kingdom

Website

http://www.BobDenton.com

Twitter

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Genre

Thriller, History

Influences

James Clavell, Lee Child, Gerald Seymour

Member Since

April 2014

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Bob Denton has been a pioneer for a number of technologies. His early career was in the marketing, launch, sales, distribution and retailing of technologies – electronic cash registers, anti-shoplifting systems, industrial non-destructive testing, personal computers…

So, he knows of the issues of promotion and exploitation of a new technology, and, latterly in his career, launched and managed international trade and consumer events.

Bob was born in Bristol, UK, he is married, with two children and five grandchildren. Today, he is retired and living in rural Oxfordshire.
Bob has been writing for twenty years.

His writing includes:
* Bob’s first novels comprised the ‘Tom Carter Series’.
• First was 'Still Water'. A Russian crime gang discovers s ...more

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Bob Denton is a writer whose work spans fiction, non fiction, history, technology, and personal reflection.

His lifelong curiosity about how people live, work, and adapt across centuries has shaped the Living History! series, which blends academic research with personal experience and local insight.

Born in Bristol in 1948, Bob later lived for two decades in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire — landsc Read more of this blog post »

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	Route of Evil really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	The PC Pioneers (Computing history Book 3) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011 — 5 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
	1492 and all that! 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Still Water: Challenging the World's water supply - and Humakind! (Tom Carter series Book 1) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009 — 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
	Gene Genie: Evangelical sect using genetic research to bring about their prophecies (Tom Carter series Book 2) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	100 PC Moments: and the 400 PC Pioneers who made them happen (Computing history Book 2) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Artifice: AI developments suborned by terrorism (AI concepts explored Book 1) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2026	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
	Short Sharp Shock!: A selection of short stories to stretch reality! 0.00 avg rating — 0 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
	AI-Quint (AI concepts explored Book 2) 0.00 avg rating — 0 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
	Living History No.1 - 17th century - Monarchists, Nobles and Gentry: The First English Civil War in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire 0.00 avg rating — 0 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

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