Jeff Robson
Jeff Robson, was born and brought up in County Durham. He studied English and American Literature at the University of Kent and worked as a tour guide at ‘one of Wordsworth’s many cottages’ before pursuing a career in journalism which included a period spent living and working in Australia.
He is currently a sub-editor for The Daily Telegraph and also contributes reviews to the Eye For Film website. He has travelled extensively and his passions are (in no particular order) history, Shakespeare, pub quizzes and real ale. He lives in north London.
Books
The Sword Of Maximilian
Professor Algernon Harcourt, an academic in the Oxford of the 1920s, has led a quiet, untroubled life – until he is notified of the death of his uncle, Swinburne Whitlam-Harcourt, a controversial archaeologist last heard of excavating an Aztec site in the chaos of revolutionary Mexico.
At the reading of the will, Prof Harcourt is instructed to return the body to England from the offices of the New York coroner. His inheritance consists of a first-class ticket on an Atlantic liner, £500 and the contents of a safe deposit box in a Manhattan bank. ‘Uncle Swinny’ believes his nephew has “a capacity for adventure”.
