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Robin Newbold

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Robin Newbold is an author and journalist. Fourth novel, the Amazon Top 30 best-selling thriller When the Darkness Swallowed the Sun, is out now. His work has appeared in Time Out, the South China Morning Post, Bangkok Metro and Gay Times. He is a Crystal Palace fan and lives in sunny Hove.

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Bangkok Burning

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Bloody Summer

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When the Darkness Swallowed the Sun by Robin Newbold
"Dan Young, the central character in Robin Newbold’s latest dark thriller, is difficult to empathise with. On the run from the UK after being responsible for the accidental but reckless death of a young girl, his job as a local journalist takes him to" Read more of this review »
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