About The Author

Robert Bartlett was born in Sydney, Australia, and after completing his secondary college education, he started employment at a small importing company at Circular Quay in Sydney, and a few years later enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force.  After completing a number of year’s military service in the RAAF, he resigned and returned to civilian life where he eventually held senior management positions in the business and commercial sector within a number of multi-national organisations.  

Over the years and in his spare time, Robert wrote regular short story articles for various community newspapers and, as a casual freelance writer, undertook various assignments for a United Kingdom web communication company. Then, approximately seven years ago, he started concentrating on developing his writing skills as a Novelist and Screenplay Writer.

In 2006, he completed his first novel Róisin and it was released to the market in 2007. Then in 2008, he completed his next novel – The Manx Deemster – which introduced his character Alistair Allobrogicus from the Isle of Man for the first time. This book was followed by the novel – The Matroska Effect, and then in 2011 another of his novels was released called - Puppeteers and Provocateurs – which completed a trilogy of the previous written work.  Robert has also completed a Screenplay called Róisin, which was based on his original novel of the same name.

Robert’s Novels are distributed to some retail bookstores in Australia and Overseas, listed on a number of book websites and have been included in the catalogues of State and Regional libraries throughout Australia. He is also in the process of writing another novel with a completely new cast of characters and an unusual theme that he hopes readers will find an exciting read. In addition to writing, he is also a part-time volunteer tutor at a leading Sydney NGO and a couple of libraries, where he regularly conducts courses - workshops in Memoir and Creative Writing.