Robert Goddard (novelist)

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Robert Goddard
Born	Robert William Goddard (1954-11-13) 13 November 1954 (age 69) Fareham, Hampshire, England
Occupation	Novelist
Genre	Mystery fiction, Crime fiction

Robert William Goddard (born 13 November 1954 in Fareham, Hampshire) is an English novelist.^[1]

Life and career

Goddard was educated at Bathampton County Primary School then Wallisdean County Junior School and Price's Grammar School in Fareham, before going on to study history at

Top Ten best-sellers in the UK.

Awards

Goddard's 1990 book Into the Blue was the inaugural winner of the

Thumping Good Read Award, presented to the best new fiction author of the year.

Goddard's 1997 book Beyond Recall was nominated for the

.

Goddard's book Long Time Coming won the 2011 Edgar Award for Best Original Paperback and was nominated for the 2011 Anthony award in the same category.^[2][3]

In 2019, Goddard was awarded the Cartier Diamond Dagger by the Crime Writers' Association for his outstanding lifetime contribution to the crime fiction genre.^[4]

Harry Barnett

The books Into the Blue, Out of the Sun and Never Go Back,^[5] although distinct books in their own right, form a chronological series featuring the central character of Harry Barnett. Harry Barnett also appears in both of Goddard's two published short stories, one of which Toupee for a Bald Tyre, which is set in 1970 before the events of the books.

Into the Blue was adapted for television in 1997 and starred John Thaw in the lead role of Harry Barnett. Robert Goddard was not impressed with the adaptation. In an interview, he said "The TV version of Into the Blue was a travesty of the story I wrote and I am determined that any future adaptations should be more faithful to the original".

Personal life

Robert Goddard is married and lives with his wife Vaunda in Truro, Cornwall. Several of the recent books published in his name have identified Vaunda as a joint holder of the copyright.

Bibliography

Novels

• Past Caring (August 1986),
  ISBN 0-7090-2743-5
  (also published as The Historian)
• In Pale Battalions (May 1988),
  ISBN 0-593-01410-3
• Painting the Darkness (June 1989),
  ISBN 0-593-01413-8
• Into the Blue (May 1990),
  ISBN 0-593-01808-7. (Harry Barnett, Book 1) (adapted as a TV film in 1996 starring John Thaw
  )
• Take No Farewell (June 1991),
  ISBN 0-593-01859-1
  (Published in North America as Debt of Dishonour)
• Hand in Glove (November 1992),
  ISBN 0-593-02489-3
• Closed Circle (November 1993),
  ISBN 0-593-02492-3
• Borrowed Time (April 1995),
  ISBN 0-593-03587-9
• Out of the Sun (June 1996),
  ISBN 0-593-03614-X
  . (Harry Barnett, Book 2)
• Beyond Recall (June 1997),
  ISBN 0-593-03617-4
• Caught in the Light (June 1998),
  ISBN 0-593-04266-2
• Set in Stone (November 1999),
  ISBN 0-593-04271-9
• Sea Change (November 2000),
  ISBN 0-593-04274-3
• Dying to Tell (November 2001),
  ISBN 0-593-04758-3
• Days Without Number (May 2003),
  ISBN 0-593-04759-1
• ISBN 0-593-04760-5
• Sight Unseen (May 2005),
  ISBN 0-593-05363-X
• Never Go Back (April 2006),
  ISBN 0-593-05365-6
  . (Harry Barnett, Book 3)
• Name to a Face (September 2007),
  ISBN 0-593-05367-2
• Found Wanting (September 2008),
  ISBN 0-593-06023-7
• Long Time Coming (UK: January 2010, US: March 2010),
  ISBN 0-593-06025-3
• Blood Count (UK: March 2011),
  ISBN 0-593-06508-5
• Fault Line (UK: March 2012),
  ISBN 0-593-06520-4
• The Ways of the World (2013),
  ISBN 9780593069738
  . (James 'Max' Maxted trilogy: Book 1)
• The Corners of the Globe (2014),
  ISBN 9780593069752
  . (James 'Max' Maxted trilogy: Book 2)
• The Ends of the Earth (2015),
  ISBN 9780593069790
  . James 'Max' Maxted trilogy: Book 3)
• Panic Room (2018),
  ISBN 9780593076361
• One False Move (2019),
  ISBN 9780593076385
• ISBN 9781787632349
• This is the Night They Come For You (2022),
  ISBN 9781787635081
• The Fine Art of Uncanny Prediction (2023),
  ISBN 9781787635104

Short stories

• Toupee for a Bald Tyre. (Harry Barnett). Included in The Detection Collection
  ISBN 978-0-00-756971-7
  (Orion, 2005)
• ’’Intersection: Paris, 1919’’, 2013. Prologue to ‘The Ways of the World’’. Made available for free.
• Birthday Buoy (Harry Barnett). Included in First Edition: Celebrating 21 Years of Goldsboro Books (Dome Press, 2020)

References

1. ^ Stasio, Marilyn (14 March 2010). "Killing by Numbers". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 May 2011.
2. ^ J. Kingston Pierce (28 April 2011). "The Rap Sheet: Matching Edgars with Authors". Therapsheet.blogspot.com. Retrieved 1 March 2012.
3. ^ "Bouchercon World Mystery Convention : Anthony Awards Nominees". Bouchercon.info. 2 October 2003. Retrieved 1 March 2012.
4. ^ "The Diamond Dagger: Robert Goddard", Crime Writers Association. Retrieved 15 April 2019
5. ^ Smith, Kerrie (June 2006). "NEVER GO BACK: Robert Goddard". Reviewer's Choice. Archived from the original on 11 July 2007. Retrieved 24 September 2023.

External links

• Official Facebook page
• Official website (archived 2015)
• 2009 Robert Goddard interview
• 2001 Robert Goddard interview (archived)
• The Mystery of Robert Goddard (2001) essay
• 2012 Robert Goddard interview on Richard & Judy