Robert Dinsdale was born in North Yorkshire and currently lives in Leigh on Sea. His novels include; The Harrowing (Faber 2010) Three Miles (Faber, 2011) Little Exiles (HarperCollins, 2013) and Gingerbread (HarperCollins, 2014) His first venture into magic, The Toymakers, was published by Ebury in 2018. His latest book, Once A Monster, an imaginative retelling of the legend of the Minotaur, full of myth and magic and steeped in the grime of Victorian London, was published by Macmillan in 2023.
Robert Dinsdale was born in North Yorkshire and currently lives in Leigh on Sea. His novels include; The Harrowing (Faber 2010) Three Miles (Faber, 2011) Little Exiles (HarperCollins, 2013) and Gingerbread (HarperCollins, 2014) His first venture into magic, The Toymakers, was published by Ebury in 2018. His latest book, Once A Monster, an imaginative retelling of the legend of the Minotaur, full of myth and magic and steeped in the grime of Victorian London, was published by Macmillan in 2023.
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