Rob Godfrey: 10 books

The Iberian Job, a mad business scheme designed by Rob Godfrey to get the £30,000 he needed to build Commuter, an installation piece. Commuter is a 50 foot long coffin with toy trains running up and down it, and also a serious attempt to create consciousness within a machine.This isn't 'artificial...

The Scevinge have lived alone on their crannog by the river Warf for over a hundred years. Within a single cycle of seasons their whole world is to be shattered from without and within. Only those who can adapt will survive.The first book in the series, Year of the Celt: Imbolc relates the lives of the...

From California to communist eastern Europe, from Alaska to Arabia, from Paris to Peking, these travel tales span the globe and contain both high drama and small moments. A Red Army soldier pulls a knife on the Trans-Siberian Railway. A foggy evening in San Francisco and an arguement about what the...

Rural France and a house renovation, a radio station and holiday rentals. Rob Godfrey's fourth memoir covers the decade between 2007 and 2017, a period that saw some momentous events in history.

The 2CV Alaska Challenge was not only the first time a 2CV had been driven up to the Arctic Ocean in Alaska, it was also the first time that charity fundraising had been attempted entirely via the internet, and also the first time that an ongoing travelogue had been posted as 'almost live' reportage...

Robert Herrick was born in London in 1591 and died in 1674 at the age of 83, which is quite remarkable considering that he lived through a war with the French, the English Civil War and outbreaks of the Black Death. These were very troubled times and in 1648, when Herrick was in his late fifties,...

In 1996 I wrote a collection of poetry called 'Sex', which consisted of 69 poems that covered every aspect of sex you could imagine, and probably quite a lot you couldn’t imagine (doing the research was interesting). 'Sex' never got published. This collection contains many of...

By far the longest essay in this collection is 'Dishwash Theory - an explanation of the mind', which is a somewhat unique take on the nature of consciousness.This collection runs to approx. 34,000 words and also contains a number of diagrams and photographs.

This book is a compilation of my blog posts about Fukushima, starting on March 11th 2011, the day of the Tohoku earthquake, and covers the first five years of something quite unique in human history: there's never before been three nuclear reactors in complete and ongoing meltdown.Some...

In early 1990 the author travelled by train from Paris to Beijing, stopping off along the way and taking three weeks to make the journey. This was during the final days of the break-up of the Soviet Union and just as China was opening up to the rest of the world. It was a fascinating time to travel...