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About Robert Stott

After retiring from three decades of running his food manufacturing business, and two decades of surf life-saving, Robert focused on his other passions, history and biography. In particular, stories of ordinary folk who took remedial action when they saw injustice or abuse or disease. These people are extraordinary: true heroes. Robert connects with these heroes through warm, entertaining stories– what drove them, their weaknesses, their strengths, their inner doubts, and their loves – stories which closely follow historical facts but introduce incidents and characters to represent the themes of their lives, stories which acknowledging their wonderful achievements, lift them out of dry black and white history book pages, and place them in the glorious colour they deserve.

random reflections

A collection of short stories to make you smile, cry, or reflect on life.

Most of these stories are humorous; some are sad. Others are wonderful fantasies, like Cathy, who escapes her truculent father and dances with the wind under the moon. There are terrifying experiences like those of Dang Thi Lang, who gives birth in the dark tunnels of Cu Chi in Vietnam as American B-52s convulse the ground with their bombs. Or the story of Lucy who finds a shell on the beach and hears a dolphin crying in distress, or the amazing life-saving contribution in WW11 of ‘the man who never was’, or the Queen bee whose hive is under attack from a gang of rascally bees, and…..

…. Why did the cat sit on the mat?

All these stories and more!

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