Roger Smith

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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1988
  • Latest Book:
    March 2018
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Full Series List in Order

A Cape Town Thriller

1 - Mixed Blood (Mar-2009)
2 - Wake Up Dead (Feb-2010)

Book List in Order: 20 titles

  • How the Animals Saved the Ark and Put Two and Two Together

  • The History of Incarceration

    Examines the history of punishment and imprisonment, including Babylon's Code of Hammurabi, Europe's medieval dungeons, and modern prisons, and discusses how ancient ideas have contribued to modern practices....

  • Political Prisoners

    As you read this, thousands of men, women, and even children are in prisons around the world, not because they have committed violence, theft, or broken drug laws, but because they spoke against their government. They are political prisoners: in some...

  • Mixed Blood

    A Cape Town Thriller - 1

    An American fugitive hides out in Cape Town--one of the world's most beautiful and violent cities--in this riveting debut thriller that asks: Can you ever outrun your past? Reluctant bank robber Jack Burn is on the run after a heist in the United ...

  • Lyrical Love Lines Of Yours And Mine

    "Lyrical Love Lines..." is a book of love poetry written from a whole different prospective and much better style than the typical "Roses are red, violets are blue" type poems that maybe you've heard and read. It's chapters ar...

  • In the Footsteps of Franklin

    “They that won’t be counseled can’t be helped.” " Benjamin FranklinThis Founding Father of America wrote one of the first books on how to run a successful business, live an exemplary life, and build a personal fortune. His Autobiography is ...

  • Wake Up Dead

    A Cape Town Thriller - 2

    An amphetamine-fueled thriller about a bombshell American widow on the run in Cape Town's violent badlands--from a writer being compared to George Pelecanos and Richard Price A split-second decision with no second chance: get it wrong and you wake...

  • Dust Devils. Roger Smith

    This is an unflinching portrayal of the dark side of the new South Africa, where to avenge what he loves, Robert Dell becomes what he hates. On the run after being framed for murdering his family, South African journalist Robert Dell's only ally is h...

  • Doing Justice to Young People

    There is an impasse in current thinking about youth crime and justice, represented by punitive and harmful practices, and liberal objections to these processes on the other, based predominantly on arguments for ‘rehabilitation’. This book aims to...



  • Tycoonery

    No one was more surprised than cynical former academic George Timmins when his old friend and property magnate David Adler contacted him out of the blue. Adler had news: not only did he have plans to pull down the centre of their childhood town, Trow...

  • Darkness, My Old Friend

  • American Spirit

    The first European immigrants came to the American colonies to escape incessant wars, oppressive governments, lack of opportunity, and tyrannical religious authorities. The dangerous and mysterious new world couldn't rectify all the ills of the old w...

  • The Adventures of Xavier Winfield and His Pal Oggie, the Great Camping Adventure

    From author and former scientist Roger B. Smith, this is the first of Seven Books in a Series about youth adventures, discovery, antics between friends, and unfortunately PERIL!

    Xavier Winfield is a precious 11 year old in a time past wher...

  • Youth Justice

    The exciting new edition of this well-loved textbook offers a fully expanded and revised account and analysis of the youth justice system in the UK, taking into account and fully addressing the significant changes that have taken place since the seco...

  • Capture

    As four-year-old Sunny Exley drowns in the icy waters off a luxury beach house, her father, Nick, smokes weed on the shore and her mother, Caroline, is lost in the arms of a lover. Hidden on nearby boulders, rent-a-cop Vernon Saul watches the child d...

  • Dust Devils

    Framed for murdering his family, journalist Robert Dell's only ally is his oldest enemy: his father, an ex-CIA hitman with one last shot at redemption. Hunting the real killer, father and son take a bloody road trip into the heart of darkness, uncove...

  • Finding Private Uttley

    Finding Private Uttley examines the causes of the Great War and life on the Western Front, asking four questions:What was life like on the western Front?Why did the soldiers at the time take part " and then carry on?How did they survive for so long...

  • Tales for a Winter's Night

  • Diversion in Youth Justice



  • Echoes

    Roger Arthur Smith’s spectacular debut, Echoes, asks, what happens when your fundamental nature is challenged, not by the many evils without, but by an unexpected awakening within?

    It’s 1960 in Hawthorne, Nevada, a desert town so secluded ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Roger Smith has published 20 books.

Roger Smith does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Echoes, was published in March 2018.

The first book by Roger Smith, How the Animals Saved the Ark and Put Two and Two Together, was published in January 1988.

Yes. Roger Smith has 1 series.
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