Robert Irwin

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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1986
  • Latest Book:
    November 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Robert Irwin Dinosaur Hunter

1 - The Discovery (May-2014)
2 - Ambush at Cisco Swamp (May-2014)
3 - Armoured Defence (Jul-2014)
4 - The Dinosaur Feather (Jul-2014)

Book List in Order: 19 titles

  • The Limits of Vision

    An obsessive-compulsive housewife teeters on the edge of madness in this “immensely intelligent and delightful . . . dance of a book” (The New York Times).  The Limits of Vision is Robert Irwin’s irrepressibly entertaining a...

  • The Arabian Nightmare

    A cult classic that “combines the genres of travelogue, fable, dream narrative, novel and confessional into one beguiling whole” (Publishers Weekly).   The hero and guiding force of this epic fantasy is an insomniac young man who, unable to ...

  • The Mysteries of Algiers

    'Entertaining and very nasty, this calculatedly intellectual comedy succeeds well as an unheroic quest starring Philippe, an interesting monster of disarming modesty.' The Listener 'Robert Irwin's third novel confirms that, whatever his other main co...

  • Satan Wants Me

    SCB COPY Seraphita The story revolves round the angelic and mysterious hermaphrodite Seraphita who seems to inspire love in all she meets. One of Balzac's most unusual novels which will appeal to lovers of the mystical and the supernatural Seraphita...

  • Prayer-Cushions of the Flesh

  • Penguin Classics Penguin Anthology Of Classical Arabic Literature

    Spanning the fifth century to the sixteenth, and ranging from Afghanistan to Spain, this unique collection provides a profound insight into the sheer vitality and depth of Classical Arabic literature. From the earliest surviving fragments of The Thou...

  • Three Tales from the Arabian Nights

    Once upon a time, the name Baghdad conjured up visions of the most magical, romantic city on earth, where flying carpets carried noble thieves off on wonderful adventures, and vicious viziers and beautiful princesses mingled with wily peasants and po...

  • Ambush at Cisco Swamp

    Robert Irwin Dinosaur Hunter - 2

    Robert's second adventure finds him in the U.S. -- but he's not in the present-day U.S. for long!The Irwins are in Texas, doing some crocodilian research on the American Alligator. Robert knows that the ancient deinosuchus roamed around...

  • The Discovery

    Robert Irwin Dinosaur Hunter - 1

    Son of Croc Hunter Steve and brother of Bindi, Robert Irwin shares his passion for dinos in a new seriesAfter discovering a dinosaur fossil in the outback, Robert stumbles upon a way to travel back to the Australian age of dinosaurs, 95...



  • Armoured Defence

    Robert Irwin Dinosaur Hunter - 3

    Robert Irwin travels back in time with his real-life best friend, in his third wild adventureRobert and his best friend Riley are visiting the Canadian badlands in Alberta with Riley's Uncle Nate. The badlands are home to more than 35 dif...

  • The Dinosaur Feather

    Robert Irwin Dinosaur Hunter - 4

    Robert and Riley learn about feathered dinosaurs -- first hand! While spending time with the cassowaries at Australia Zoo, Robert mentions to his best friend Riley that many dinosaurs were also feathered. Riley thinks he's joking until the tw...

  • Night & Horses & The Desert

    Spanning the fifth to the sixteenth centuries, from Afghanistan to Spain, Night & Horses & The Desert includes translated extracts from all the major classics in an invaluable introduction to the subject. Robert Irwin has selected a wide range of Ara...

  • A Hundred and One Nights

    Known to us only through North African manuscripts, and translated into English for the first time, A Hundred and One Nights is a marvelous example of the rich tradition of popular Arabic storytelling. Like its more famous sibling, the Thousand and O...

  • Wonders Will Never Cease

    Beginning with the Palm Sunday battle of Towton, the bloodiest ever fought on English soil, WONDERS WILL NEVER CEASE relates the fabulous adventures of one man and his noble family amid the chaos and political intrigue that beset England during the W...

  • My Life is like a Fairy Tale

    'Robert Irwin vividly and brilliantly blends the fictional life and all-too-real times of a film star of the Nazi era in this a narrative of diminishing options and the advance to death and destruction. Cultured, clever and funny at times, in a grim ...

  • The Penguin Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature

  • The Runes Have Been Cast

    The Runes Have Been Cast is a black comedy of darkest hue about academic and literary life set in Oxford and St Andrews in the early 60s. A tin of alphabet spaghetti brought about Lancelyn's first encounter with the apparently supernatural. Unfortuna...

  • Tom's Version

    This is the story of a story that plays out in real life. Tom is a stock controller. Though management of the shelves kept him busy in the daytime, his nights were frightful. Again and again he dreamt of guns, conjuring tricks, car chases, burials, d...

  • Exquisite Corpse

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    This “off-beat, brisk and darkly comic” historical novel about an artist’s romantic obsession with his muse is “consistently clever and inventive.”(The New York Times)   Set in London, Paris, and Munich in the 1940s and 1950s, Exquisit...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Robert Irwin has published 19 books.

Robert Irwin does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Tom's Version, was published in November 2023.

The first book by Robert Irwin, The Limits of Vision, was published in August 1986.

Yes. Robert Irwin has 1 series.
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