Robert Dodds writes for both adults and children. His work is not easy to categorize, as he does not stick to a single genre. However, recurring characteristics are the humorous and the macabre. His four novels for adults are: 'The Art School Murders' and 'Sitting Duck' - both blackly comic murder stories; 'Paradise Por Favor' - a humorous novel set in Spain, and the historical novel 'The Garden of Earthly Delights', inspired by the work of the 15th Century artist Hieronymus Bosch. His two short story collections are 'Rattlesnake and Other Tales' (Polygon) and 'Secret Sharers'. Many of his short stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio Four. For children, 'The Midnight Clowns' (Andersen Press) was short-listed for the Kathleen Fidler Award, and is also published in France by Flammarion. His other children's novels are 'Nightland' (Andersen Press), 'The Secret of Iguando' (Andersen Press, also published in USA by Mondo, and serialised on BBC Radio Four), and 'The Murrian' (Andersen Press, also published as an audio book by Oakhill). He has two books in Bloomsbury's 'Wired' series for struggling teenage readers: 'The Haunted Mobile' and 'Pitch Dark'. In addition to writing fiction, he has had a stage play produced, and has written and directed several short films shown on television and at film festivals.