Derek Robinson (novelist)

Works

Aviation novels

• Goshawk Squadron is set in 1918 with the squadron flying the S.E.5a.
• War Story is set in 1916 with Hornet Squadron flying the F.E.2b and F.E.2d which they prefer to the B.E.2 Quirks.
• Hornet's Sting is set in 1917 with Hornet Squadron flying the Sopwith Pup, Nieuport, and the Bristol F.2B Fighter.

• A Splendid Little War is set in 1919 with a British Squadron taking part in the Russian Civil War and flying Sopwith Camels.

• Piece of Cake is set during the Phoney War and Battle of Britain with Hornet Squadron flying the Hurricane. The TV mini-series with the same name is based on this book.
• A Good Clean Fight covers the Desert Air Force during 1942 with Hornet Squadron flying the Curtiss Tomahawk.
• Damned Good Show covers RAF Bomber Command's early bomber operations and has fictional No. 409 Squadron RAF flying the Handley Page Hampden.

• Hullo Russia, Goodbye England. It begins in 1943, as Silk is on his second tour, and moves into the early 1960s when he rejoins the RAF as an Avro Vulcan pilot during the Cuban Missile Crisis. This novel was originally self-published and only available from Robinson's own website but a paperback edition was published by MacLehose Press in 2012.

Luis Cabrillo novels

• The Eldorado Network, about counter-espionage in WWII Spain and Portugal.
• Artillery of Lies, set mostly in England and Germany.
• Red Rag Blues, about espionage and the McCarthy witchhunts in 1950s America.
• Operation Bamboozle, Luis Cabrillo travels to Los Angeles and tangles with the Mob. Self-published and available from his website.

  Other books

• Son of Bristle Abson Books. A guide to Bristle azit's poke.
• Rotten with Honour, about Cold War-espionage.
• Kramer's War is set on the island of Jersey in 1944.
• Run with the Ball. Collins. Guide to Rugby Union play.
• The Best Green Walks in Bristol. Westcountry Books. Local walking guide.
• A Load of Old Bristle: Krek Waiter's Peak Bristle. Robinson, Derek, and Wiltshire, Vic. Countryside Books. More infermasun on howter's peak Bristle.
• Kentucky Blues, about life in a nineteenth-century American town.
• Sick Sentries of Bristle . Countryside Books. "A slapstick dash through 600 years of local excitements".
• Invasion, 1940, a non-fiction work about World War II which aims to debunk "two powerful myths": first, that the RAF alone prevented an invasion of Great Britain by Hitler's Germany; and second, that such an invasion force would inevitably have conquered Britain.
• A Darker History of Bristol. Countryside Books. "A fair share of cruel, inglorious and scandalous episodes that are generally little referred to".
• . HarperCollinsWillow. The laws of the game made simple.
• Better Rugby Refereeing, co-authored with Ed Morrison.
• Why 1914? A forensic, and darkly humorous, re-examination of the origins of WW1