Happiness emerges from displeasure?
Can bad luck be the basis of success?
Or fortune founded from misery?
Success from failure?

Kev Richardson discovers during his exciting life, how so many successes came his way only because some misfortune in the category had dampened his past.
Indeed an enviable mystery. But it all happened.
Learn of Kev’s life in his memoirs, Positive Paradox!

Libby Abbott, Aussie eBook Reviews

 

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 What we say about Kev:

One of my favorite authors is Kev Richardson.
I believe I have read nearly everything he’s written in his Australian histories, as well as his WWII (behind the facts) Histories.
His Novelized works epitomize that it is the heart behind real people that makes history happen.
His books are more than dry statistics and facts.
For a well traveled writer, his books are life as we wished we had lived it.
If you haven’t introduced yourself to Kev’s works yet, you really owe it to yourself.
His history books have always made me wish I’d been there.

JoEllen Conger, Conger Book Reviews (USA)

 

 

 

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All are 5 Stars!

 5 Stars 

I catch my breath as Ric Richardson describes his world-wide travels, his single piece of luggage seemly weighing him down as he sprints train to plane, ferry to taxi to keep his departure times on schedule. Once home, he writes his articles in solitude for his explorer, sending them off like leaves in the wind.

I was absolutely enchanted by the story of his life as a traveling-man, meeting new people at every turn, finding new places to explore. I wanted to grab my bag and keep pace with him. I’m sure you will too.

JoEllen Conger – Conger Book reviews USA.

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5 Stars 

Kev Richardson cannot stop telling wonderful tales in wonderful ways.

Now he’s wallowing in memories of places he travelled in and writing articles for airline magazines on what? – On thirty-nine countries!

He keeps asking, “And where to next?” And off he goes, taking you with him!

At least leaving you wishing he is taking you with him.

Go, get’em Ric! You are a wonder!

Libby Abbott –  Aussie eBook Reviews

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5 Stars 

This travel book of Kev Richardson is not merely the telling of his lifelong adventures. Kev embodies his travels – he lives the places he visits and is totally absorbed by the customs and traditions of the people he meets. It is his passion for the people and places that he has been that he so embraces his readers. 5 Stars!

Robert Jameson – Living Body Earth

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5 Stars 

“They must be interesting people in every essence.” quote by Mr. Richardson… A stunning travel log of nearly the entire world. As you read, tid-bits of his earlier life sprout then bloom which reveals the essence of who this author is. In his 60’s and retired from the day job, this is a splendid way to meet and greet a great novelist who has embraced life with extraordinary acumen. I enjoyed every minute of his travels, of learning more of the complexities of Mr. Richardson, and highly recommend all his memoirs.

Katherine Pym, historian and novelist.

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5 Stars 

A review of ‘MyLife,MyTravels’, by Kev Richardson

5 Stars for this long life lived at a breakneck speed, a pleasurable account of Kev Richardson’s travels around the world during a life so far stretching to ninety years. Actually several lives as Kev tells it. In business travels he grasps every opportunity of squeezing recreational hours in noting teasing sights, sights like Morris dancers in rural England to driving the longest car ever seen, in Milwalkee. Assigned to take over a company in New Zealand he uses his Sunday to drive the east and west coasts noting points of interest. Making travel a business like reporting on the Easter Festival in Cuzco, Peru, he stretches it to three months touring all of South America.

His book has a brisk, honest and refreshing style for readers to experience the sights, sounds and smells of each venue. Whether trapped in Turkey during a local war or being mugged in Bogotá, Kev seems irrepressible. His writing is full of humour giving readers a no-holds-barred views of the cultures he encounters. In the early 1990s in strange places he many times wishes someone would invent mobile telephones.

Peter Dixon, author of Setting the Med Ablaze.

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5 Stars 

Reading Ric’s life story I was transported back to an era when travelling was full of surprises and most of all, interaction with other people. He had to cope without Tripadvisor or online booking and instead met a lot of interesting people in those fascinating places, exchanging information and making life-long friends. Let yourself be carried back to the good old times of travelling!

—EvelineWilli, AvidSwiss

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5++ Stars !  

I wept for Adam Ashby, not because he lived such a degrading, despairing life as a lowly convict, but because he had finally discovered acceptance and respect by the Aborigines of New South Wales, only to be hunted down by his own people. He had bolted into the wilds rather than be flogged for his latest crime. This is a poignant story of a boy who in his teens searched for a kind and gentler world where a person could be loved for simply being himself. Instead, he is jailed and thrown in with hardened criminals and military men who greedily seek power over their charges. In spite of what this criminal environment has in store for Adam, he nonetheless survives. Yet it is his searching for empathetic love and respect that carries him into manhood. And Oh, that ending! It hit me right in the gut. Masterful stuff!

… JoEllen, Conger Books Reviews (USA)

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5 Stars   for Kev Richardson’s GURREWA !

This third edition continues emptying the vacuum-cleaner with which modern Australians are at last cleaning under the carpet where for generations, the dust of truth was swept. It is the first intensive study of what happed in Sydney Cove, told through convict eyes, yet with added meat, since Marcus Clark’s masterpiece ‘For the Term of his Natural Life’ in 1870.  It delves too, into the Aborigine facing the terrible realisation that his heritage is crumbling. Gurrewa gives us a remarkable insight into the perturbations of both the convict and the black man, for his tomorrows.   

… Libbie Abbott, Aussie eBook Reviews  

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5 out of 5 Star   – Outstanding 

Gurrewa is an impeccably researched history of Australia’s First Fleet of settlers and convicts. It is told through the mind and body of a fourteen year old London street gamin who is sentenced to seven years for lifting a few articles of clothing. He is sent to labor on the Thames hulks before being transported to Botany Bay.

Richardson skillfully tells the story of convict hardship in stark reality. The reader does not suspect he is being given a history lesson. A lesson few of us have heard. I strongly urge anyone to pick up a copy of this excellently written work.

…Richard W. Barnes

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5 Stars !!!  !!!

Gurrewa tells the brutal shame of a new nation’s founding, the plight of convicts, and of Aborigines facing the terrible realisation that their heritage is crumbling. Author Kev Richardson has caught the flavor and pure awfulness of the time about which he writes. His characters are well drawn and believable. Without hesitation I recommend this story to anyone who likes historical or mainstream tales.

                                                 … Anne K. Edwards, eBooks Reviews Weekly  

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Award-winning book revised

Gurrewa, first novel of Australia’s convict history told through convict eyes since Marcus Clarke’s For the Term of his Natural Life in 1870, has just hit the market in its third edition.
An award winner, it details the experiences of convict life when, in 1788, the First Fleet of Great Britain’s wayward men and women set foot in Botany Bay to establish a convict settlement. It empties the vacuum cleaner with which modern Australians are at last cleaning under the carpet where, for generations, the dust of truth was swept.
Adam, a London gutter gamin, his only skill the art of street survival, accepts his world in happy ignorance. He seeks tenderness and succour in an environment providing neither. In the horrors of the hulks and transportation his emotions find outlets in dreaming, in torment, in love and adventure.
From his first days at Sydney Cove he lives the shame of a new nation’s founding. Threatened securities become shattered; he can but dream of a world with compassion and dignity.
Aborigines, too, find their securities dwindling. Adam bolts, to live with and understand the terror amongst them. He takes up the fight against the white advance…a fearful, emotional war that cannot be won. 

Dr. Bob Rich (Australian Award Winning Author) 2 August 2018

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5 Stars 

Son of Gurrewa is a worthy sequel to Award Winning Gurrewa. Kevin Richardson has the unique ability to tell his country’s history as it affects people, by letting his lifelike characters tell it from their own minds in their own words. This preamble on Australia’s convict beginnings makes the reader believe he or she is really there, influenced by the real events of those days. You cannot but help feel part of it!

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5 Stars ! 

Adam Ashby of Gurrewa  is Kev Richardson’s fictionalized convict-birthed character born to an unwed couple, a ‘bolted’ convict and his ‘colony wife’. Son of Gurrewa represents the second generation of white man’s life in Australia. It tells the real history of New South Wales’ struggles to become more than just an overflow prison for England’s criminals. It is also an excellent portrayal of how Australia earned its reputation as both The Lucky Country and Land of Opportunity.

For those of you who miss the history in your Historical reads, you’ll not be disappointed in this factional account of Australian history, 1790–1820s.

And Kev, I just love the way you throw a good story together!

JoEllen, Conger Book Reviews, USA

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Dreamtime Drift Reviews

In another 5 Star revelation from the pen of Kev Richardson, Dreamtime Drift tells the dreadful tale of how in early Australia, Whiteman’s frenetic race to grab arable land using hard-labour-convicts to build a prison and farmlands, bludgeon their way at the expense of the Aboriginal people. Struggling under a government striving to build a further dependency in its empire, the native inhabitants fighting to protect their very existence, buckle under the power of the educated invaders. This work takes the reader into the very heart of the shock, insecurity and helplessness of Australia’s indigenous people…

Libby Adams, Aussie eBook Reviews.

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5 Stars! 

Multi-published Historical writer, Kev Richardson found himself truly challenged in his endeavorto locate the Aboriginal voice to weave into Australia’s early history. As is often the case, the indigenous people were without a written language. therefore, the Australian Aborigine’s story could be unearthed from only vocally repeated myths and metaphysical beliefs.

Through the eyes of the gentle natives 1824 to 1830 in Dreamtime Drift, Kev recreates the emotional conflict and mystical beliefs of the peaceful Turrbal and Jagera people. It is a then account of the injustices and savagery inflicted on a gentle race of people by the British invaders; those with little regard for the rights of indigenous people.

This exceptional work truly touched my heart.

What gave me real satisfaction in this historical account of Aboriginal abuse is Banyo’s parting sentiments to the notoriously cruel Captain Logan. It was a fitting and subtle salutation to a man with so much evil in his heart as to be forbidden the right to enter the tranquility of the afterlife.

JoEllen,Conger Book Reviews, USA

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The first word that comes to mind from reading Kev Richardson’s historical novel, Dreamtime Drift, is Superb. I highly recommend this third installment of his Soul of Australia series. The amount of research that went into crafting this book is awe-inspiring and astounding. Coupled with being extremely well-written, well-delivered, including a glossary and diagrams, it packs a powerful punch to stay with his readers forever.

Dreamtime Drift tells the story of the demise of the Aborigines in Australia during 1824-1830. They are spiritual, peaceful, self-sufficient hunter-gathering nomads who lived simply and happily. Along came Whiteman to steal their land along with bringing cholera and smallpox to kill thousands.

The story is told through the eyes and hearts of a white sympathizer and an indigenous man. It is so vividly portrayed that you feel you are right there witnessing the struggles and the horrendous slaughter of innocent Aborigines at the hands of British settlers wanting their land and stooping to anything to get it.

My heart was stirred by Richardson’s intense, skillful writing and I will never forget the unique Aborigines and what they stood for – their love, simplicity and spiritual ethics. I highly recommend this work for it is a must read. I look forward to the next one. I learned a lot, grew a lot, and it will stay in my heart forever.

Suzanne Hurley – www.suzannemhurley.blogspot.com

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5 Stars!  

 Kev Richardson, a 6^th generation descendant First Fleeter, continues his authentic historical account about the thousands upon thousands of convicts imprisoned on New South Wales—a land that not even the king himself knew had too little fresh water to drink, or sufficient tillable soil to support the hoards of convicts he sent. Letitia never realized when sentenced for stealing a partial bolt of cloth, that she would become a memorable part of Australian history.

It’s like no history I’ve ever read. The voice in this work carries the reader right into the trying times of convict life—I found this book an informative account, written the way I like to read history. Richardson makes you live the part of the suffering and struggles of the times.

I highly recommend it.

              …JoEllen, Conger Book Reviews, USA

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5 Stars!  

Letitia Munro is a work deserving of the highest awards in Australia’s history. Richardson has studied his nation’s convict history from A to Z, is a Past President of The First Fleet Fellowship and a Past Secretaryof The Descendants of Convicts Inc.

This wonderfully presented true history read will keep you spellbound!

Libby Abbott, Aussie eBook Reviews

 

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5 Stars 

Kev Richardson has a way of introducing the reader to each of Letitia Munro’s family, making the history in the late 1700’s and early 1800’s come alive.

The Van Diemen’s Land name was changed in an effort to hide the social guilt of inhumane suffering, starvation, deliberate brutalities, and unpardonable cruelties dealt against prisoners whose misdeeds were often only crimes of ‘desperation in surviving hard times’. It was such beginnings that established the convicts’ loyal code against their captors, formulating the heritage of ‘bonded relationships’ in today’s Australians.

I highly recommend Kev’s historical tales. He brings history to life.

…JoEllen, Conger Book Reviews USA

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5 Big Stars!

Second in the Letitia Munro trio of true-life tales of Australia’s founding as the world’s largest prison.

Convicts despatched from Britain’s bulging gaols served out their sentences in an ancient land, wresting it from Aborigines, that it be turned over to agriculture and sheep-grazing. This episode tells of the second generation experiences, hardships, loves and heartbreaks as they unwittingly forged a new ethos. Mostly illiterate and lacking skills, some failed at farming while others succeeded, unaware of the social taboos being woven into the fabric of the nation’s spawning culture.

When the sins of fathers became beholden on them as society values changed, must they deny their very heritage?

Richardson has a careful and strangely unique way of telling how such strange beginnings were blessed upon a land that had never known white-man needs. Go for it!

Libby Abbott – Aussie eBook Reviews

 

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5 Stars! 

I must agree with Australian historian Kev Richardson, a proud sixth generation ‘First Fleeter’, that denying the terrible truths of convictism and its atrocities, only made today’s Australians stronger for realising how their forebears clung together to cope with intolerance, bigotry, and hypocrisy of the times.

I found reading about the true history of the 1800’s in Australia, an eye-opener.

Here is a modern day author bravely disclosing the terrible truths concealed behind the recorded history of the ancestors transported into a living hell, and how they really lived and loved. I highly recommend this series to all history lovers. This book will open your eyes to the shocking truths behind Australia’s hidden past.

…JoEllen, Conger Book Reviews USA

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5 Stars! 

Third work in the trio after Letitia Munro and To Plough Van Diemen’s Land continues the astounding tale of Australia’s founding convicts.

We discover how individual families transform the world’s biggest prison into a land of free enterprise and pride.

Having grown up in the shadows of their parents’ pasts, each family faces the traumas in holding heads high in a society of change, one intent on sweeping the convict past under carpets as even educators lie to its county’s students. Parents agonise over preparing the next generation to cope. Must they deny their children their very heritage?

The Terrible Truths takes you right into the hearts of true characters. None realised their unwitting discoveries were creating today’s Australians’ unique outlook on life.

Libby Abbott – Aussie eBook Reviews

 

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5+ Stars!   

‘Brogan the boy’, was born into a loveless relationship to the man who sired him. He was looked after by whomever his father found to care for him, as though he were an unwanted pup. If it hadn’t been for Da’oud, the old Arab, he might never have lived to become a man.

Some people are born with a higher sense of self-survival than others, and Brogan learned through his hard knocks just how to meet adventurous head on. This a very sensitive look of an unwanted boy’s growing up and surviving to become ‘Brogan the Man’.

When Amr Brogan first put his hands on a flying machine, he knew who he wanted to be when he became a man. He vowed nothing, and no one would ever stand in the way of his dream. He would do whatever it took to fly a plane. This is the beginning of the Brogan series, and how he became the adventurous man in all the exciting books that follow. This book is definitely a keeper.

…JoEllen, Conger Book Reviews USA

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5 Stars!  

Australia in the early 1900s is a country in transition. Camels still provide the most reliable transport of goods across the wide desert expanses, but the pedal-wireless connects people even on remote cattle stations. Droughts and floods play havoc with the livelihoods of ranchers, yet the discovery of opal brings unimaginable prosperity.

Into this world is born Brogan, son of a drover who wants nothing more for his son than the little he had for himself. Brogan, however, is destined for more than droving…under the influence of an Arab caravan leader, a Catholic nun, a station owner and his wife, even a grizzled camp cook, Brogan the Boy becomes Brogan the Man…a man whose dreams lead him out of the Outback, into Australia’s future.

An exciting read.

Libby Abbott, Aussie eBook Reviews

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5 Stars!  

Brogan’s Bust by Kev Richardsoncontinues the adventures of the charismatic Brogan, flying charter in the backstabbing world of gun-running, drug-smuggling intrigue in the Amazon jungles.

The tale is a well crafted, high testosterone tale of corrupt international trafficking in gems, guns and drugs. In fact, I couldn’t help but wonder how this author knew so much detailed information about the strong-armed men of South America? It all sounds so realistic, as though he’s been there, done that… and survived.

…JoEllen, Conger Book Reviews USA

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5 Stars!  

Brogan, an adventurer enmeshed in intrigue, flies a courier service between remote outposts of Amazonia where graft and corruption make mockery of the law.

Intrigue and backstabbing amongst cartel middlemen goaded by greed, turn a hiccup into a stumble that generates into a fall, to begin a slide that snowballs into an avalanche.

Come join them, but beware ‘friends’ who seem with you…but are simply waiting for you to turn your back!

Yes, that was South America in the early nineteen hundreds, and later!

Libby Abbott, Aussie EBook Reviews

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5 Stars!  

Brogan is at it again. He and his Bella, en-route to Australia, are high-jacked over the Pacific to find themselves doing whatever they must, to survive. I promise you, this book is so full of high adventure and tension it will keep you turning pages—even if you know absolutely nothing about the political situation between Vietnam and France during the 1940’s.  

JoEllen, Conger, Conger Book Reviews, USA

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Brogan’s and his Bella’s journey back to Australia took not the two or three weeks planned, but incarceration and intimidation, all the fears, suffering and trepidation that only a hijack visits on one.

…so innocently caught up in the catch-twenty-two situation of becoming embroiled in the cut-throat intrigue of jungle politics and guerrilla warfare, or facing the cutting of their own throats for even knowing the truths behind the hijack.

World War Two may have been over for the major world powers, yet the ill-conceived haste with which each rid itself of colonial ties in Asia, consigned every newly independent nation to generations of bloody political and civil war…except maybe France, which re-occupied Indo-China after the Japanese withdrawal, only to drive its three nations even more devastatingly into bloodbaths.

Into such bubbling cauldrons of intrigue and political unrest, Bella and Brogan discover sympathies and allegiances that leave the peace of each in as much disarray as those of the several war-ravaged leading nations.

Libby Abbott, Aussie EBook Reviews

 

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5++ Stars!  

Once again Brogan is off on a spine-tingling misadventure, this time in South America, the kind that makes you lust to travel with him. Multi-published author Kev Richardson has a way of creating his plots so realistically, you feel you are there. He and his Becky hadn’t counted on kidnapping, armed guards, or drug smuggling This is one love story that will keep you turning pages. A must read.

Please follow Kev Richardson’s website to more Brogan adventures.

JoEllen, Conger Book Reviews USA

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5 Mighty Stars!

Best made plans of even seasoned traveller Brogan can come unstuck in South America. Many become spine-chilling adventures, erupting into chaos, the kind to make you lust to travel with him.

They hadn’t counted on FARC taking hostages – he must move diplomatic mountains to find help.

Peru erupts in revolution…train travel over the Altiplano…a car chase across Paraguay…the Missiones…Iguazzu Falls…was Brogan really smuggling guns into Brazil?

Hey mates, so many disasters fall amongst the thrills of travel in such an unstable part of the world.

Libby Abbott – Aussie eBook Reviews

 

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5+ Stars!   

Brogan Abroad sees our hero almost everywhere at once—smuggling sex-flesh here, caught up in revolution there… It may not be the same ‘Brogan’ as Kev Richardson portrayed in his other Brogan stories, but he nonetheless fits the same mold of a devil-may-care adventurer. At first I thought if this Brogan didn’t have ‘bad luck’ he wouldn’t have any luck at all…but then I realized that if it hadn’t been for his luck he surely would have been robbed of more than just his camera in Africa, gotten nailed as a smuggler of exotic women, or had his throat slashed in a darkened alley. I challenge anyone to put this book down once they start reading. Double dare you!

JoEllen – Conger Book Reviews (USA)

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5  Stars!  

Kev Richardson unveils more intrigue in distant lands…

Brogan Abroad tells three distinctive true tales, threaded into a single adventure. Brogan plans none…all three are thrust upon him and all are life-threatening. Each destines him to having his throat slit in some dark alley…

Yet what can a man do, he laments, when to accomplish one I must fail at another?

While hiding out in Thailand from a Sydney cocaine cartel, he becomes involved in smuggling high-profile prostitutes into Australia…an adventure interrupted when unwittingly used as a courier in The Sudan, a third-world nation counting down hours to bloody revolution.

Wow, what-a-tort fraught situation!

Libby Abbott, Aussie eBook Reviews

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5 Stars!  

Multi-published historical writer, Kev Richardson’s PACIFIC PARADOX, reveals WWII from an Englishman’s perspective. We see the war through the eyes of his worldly naive character Beresford, aristocratic son of Baronet Sir Thomas Branson. Beresford has been sent out into the every-day world to earn his own worldly experiences. From his lucky adventures, to his incredible misadventures, he discovers a whole new attitude toward life. He becomes involved in the war effort in the Pacific Islands. Kev’s accurate historical research is very prominent in this telling. It is a wonderful adventure tale as Berry finally becomes the man his father can respect. It’s a sensitive story of a naïve young man growing into manhood.

JoEllen Conger – Conger Book Reviews USA

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5 Huge Stars! 

A British nobleman’s errant son is sent off to the South Seas to be blooded. On his way to discovering common sense he stumbles through intrigue, hunger, pangs of love-lust, deceit and loneliness…even kidnap.

He is coast-watching on Guadalcanal when the Japanese invade. Discovering the horrors of what war does to man on one hand, he also discovers how unlikely friendships can be forged on the other.

His front-stall view of the legendary naval battles on Guadalcanal in 1942, indeed blood him.

Libby Abbott – Aussie eBook Reviews

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10 out of 5 !!!!!  

If I were privileged to award MY RED CROSS written by multi-published Biographical Historian, Kev Richardson, with a review rate from 1 to 5; I would have to give this book a 10! And I do!

Richardson indeed, here, proves himself a Master of Storytelling.

The story of England’s affluently raised Beresford Branson begins when his father, Baronet Sir Thomas Branson of Folly Drift, sends his youngest son out into the South Pacific to become a responsible man (in the first book: PACIFIC PARADOX). Here he served the war effort as a Coast Watcher while the Japanese fleet attacks Guadalcanal, falling in love with Randi Edwards, the daughter of a double agent and spy for Japan.

In this second book of the series, MY RED CROSS, Beresford becomes involved behind enemy lines after the German Army overruns France (1943-44).

He soon learns how to manipulate his friendship with German Colonel Kessler to benefit war victims as he slips from one exciting and dangerous adventure to the next. His boyish heart falls deliriously in love with the beautiful underground leader, La Chat. Until the day liberation comes in Paris…then what comes next? Which woman will lay claim to his heart? The girl at home…or the girl in his bed? What is a young man to do?

                                                              JoEllen, Conger Book Reviews, USA

My Red Cross by Kevin Richardson

I was privileged to receive an advance copy of My Red Cross. Much to my satisfaction, the book demonstrates to me anew, how broadening the historical novel genre can be.

As a WWII fan, I believed I’d read just about every aspect of the Nazi invasion and occupation of Europe. But who knew the scope of activities carried out by the brave operatives of the International Red Cross? Having read Richardson’s remarkable rendering, I am left wanting to know more.

This book is a sequel to his novel  Pacific Paradox about the coast watchers in the WWII Pacific islands. A young man returns to his home in England with a history of Malaria. This keeps him out of the British services except for a post with the Red Cross. He is sent, green as grass, to France, and given a territory near the coast.

What follows gives the reader a remarkable insight into the workings of, not only the Red Cross, but the French underground. Richardson has clearly done his homework in the writing of this solid work. I heartily recommend it.

                                                  Richard Whitten Barnes, Jan. 2013

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5 + Stars! 

Bang!

Oh my God, what a World War 2 tale is My Red Cross!

It doesn’t simply bring reality to you on every page, it takes you there! You cannot but believe yourself part of it!

It introduces you to every type of person involved in life, from the hearts of love-stricken couples to those of fighting men and women and how they face and survive (some as only one must expect) in the hope of seeing a tomorrow, every day!

You really will never appreciate what that war did for and to some.

Go get it and experience how so many people really lived during those terrible years.

Libby Abbott – Aussie eBook Reviews

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10 out of 5 !!!!! 

Only once have I ever scored a book a ‘10-out-of 5’ Stars…and I thought it could never happen again. I was wrong!

I simply couldn’t put down, A GERMAN STIRRING.

You like History? Kev Richardson makes it up front and personal. It’s history…but this author never lets you forget that it takes real people fighting for what they believe in, to make up History. Great suspense!

Following the close of WWII in devastated Germany, Beresford (Berry) Branson again finds himself working inside enemy territory building on his humanitarian training with the International Red Cross. He has been assigned by Britain’s MI5 to a team assessing effects of military rule in occupied Germany, seeking out subversive underworlds. He is led to even suspect within his very own administration as victorious allies seem bent on breaking every rule in the Geneva Convention Agreement. Can the Allies really be as guilty of as much graft, corruption and duplicity as they accused Germany of, before and during the war?

Keeping the peace between allies became as difficult a job in peacetime, as winning the peace. Beresford could only speculate which government his own colleagues might serve. He had thought he could trust his life with anyone on his team. But, now he isn’t so sure.

                  JoEllen Conger… Conger Books Reviews USA

5 Stars! 

In A GERMAN STIRRING, Richardson pulls no punches in accusing the Allied Administration of malpractice and duplicity in the occupation of Germany after World War 2—that having railed against Nazi lies and inhuman treatment of civilians before and during it, they became as guilty. His humanist views on military decisions affecting even the innocent as humanity suffers, takes one’s breath away. It is indeed a sensitive view on what really happened in Germany between Surrender and the start of the Cold War, with Generals of all sides taking different paths to the restoration of peace.

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5+ Stars! 

Multi-published Historical author, Kev Richardson brings out his fourth book of Beresford Branson’s life during WWII. This author has a unique way of presenting the individual people behind the making of history. I highly recommend this book, especially for history lovers.

An active operative of the British M15 Special Force 8673, he must juggle his love-life between his war-time duties and his love for Yvette, or La Chat as she had been known in the French underground but now a member of Sécurité Français. While nurturing the newly divided Germany, struggling to feed its starving populous, Berry dreams of a time when he can escape his wartime duties, to marry his true love, back in the family estate, Folly Drift.

Kev Richardson brings us another 5+ Historical…

   JoEllen, Conger Book Reviews, USA

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5 Stars! 

Beresford at Bay is a magnificent finish to Richardson’s Beresford Branson Series.

Beresford finds himself in even deeper disarray as political bickering in the Allied Control Council leads to Germany’s governing body’s collapse. The wonderful dream of building a united Germany from the ashes of its Nazi history, itself dies a sorry death as the country splits into two warlike Zones. Beresford needs to look to his own future, sorting out the romantic tangle he had been suffering, that his future has better prospects than Europe seems headed for.

A sparkling piece of work!

Libby Abbott, Aussie eBook Reviews

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5+ Stars! 

 

Multi-published historical writer, Kev Richardson, writes a ‘What If…’ tale of WWII, centered in Australia. Think about it. What would have happened if Adolf Hitler hadn’t decided to take on Russia? What if…Japan hadn’t been driven out of Australia? What if…America hadn’t joined the fray with their Atomic bomb that forced the Japanese surrender? As a world encompassing war…whose flag would we be saluting today if…victory had gone differently? This book is definitely a 5+ thought provoking read.

   JoEllen, Conger Book Reviews, USA

 

What If ? 5+ Stars!!  

Richardson, in this fantastic historical, paints a clear picture of what could have happened to the world had Hitler not attacked Russia when he did, but continued having its manpower strength with him rather than against him.

In mid 1941, Britain was reeling with unreadiness to defend itself against invasion, he writes. As was the USA when Japan attacked it in December of that year, he hints. Nazi Germany was on a roll and had Hitler added the forces used against Russia, to those already active on his western front, nothing could have stopped him taking Britain. While Russia subdued the Middle East, Germany could well have then, aided Japan in its fight against the USA, saving Japan from being turned around.

Japan could well have then captured the entire Pacific as Germany had captured the entire continent of Europe. America alone could not have stopped that happening.

A brilliant expectation of how the war could have flowed, had Hitler not made that monumental error.

 

Libby Abbott, Aussie eBook Reviews

 

 

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5 Stars! 

It seems I cannot stop awarding every Kev Richardson novel I read, 5 Stars.

Shadows is a tremendously exciting tale of the French Resistance during the German Occupation in World War II. Featuring every one of the senses, it grabs the reader and transplants us in Saumur on the Loire where the tale is set. Surprise after surprise greet Adele (or should that be Julie or Brown Owl?) and her family, particularly brother Guy (or Gerard), the black sheep renegade?

It strikes fear, love, hate, terror and glee into all Resistants every day in their lives as they plot to help their country break the unique Occupation demands suffered by so many, every day.

A must read for every soul with a spunky beat in their heart.

Libby Abbot, Aussie eBook Reviews

 

5 Stars!!!!

Shadows is written honoring the bravery of the many men and women who dealt from behind-the-scenes the atrocities of WWII. The book, Shadows, as seen through the eyes of Malcolm Harding and family, depicts how fighting a war can separate even loving members of a close-knit family, and how strangers of-the-day bonded together, determined to win back their country’s freedom. Shadow is an exemplary tale about the Fabrille Family and their blow-by-blow struggle against wartime atrocities.

JoEllen, Conger Book Reviews, USA

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5 Stars !  

A yokel in Savile Row—once again multi-published historical writer, Kev Richardson, brings us living history, this time as seen through the eyes of Gerard Rawes, a London tailor for gentlemen, during the Napoleonic Wars… and beyond. This author has a way of making history come alive, with a touch of wit woven through the personal accounts of his characters. If you enjoy reading about history, this author is someone you must read.

JoEllen Conger… Conger Books Reviews USA

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5 Stars ! 

A ‘true-tale’ of man’s rags to riches life, not in the traditionally inferred ‘Cinderella’ sense, yet maybe not too far from it.

Gerard Rawes discovers how life can pluck a man from one situation and drop him into another, as if sucked up by a tsunami and tossed on to the beach of a new world. In England’s mid-eighteenth century, the emerging industrial revolution catapults a man out of a world of serfdom into social London.

Your author illustrates how archival records in Britain, don’t lie. It’s a true, worthy, exciting tale.

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5 Stars !  

A continuing historical account of this extensive ancestral family tree down through the evolving times of the industrial revolution—steam engines and hand crafted train coaches and the ever spreading spider-webbing of railroad tracks upon a raw new continent. This author has an enchanting way of portraying the reality of living, breathing people behind the facts and dates found in your history books.

He transports you through the laughter and pathos of a family bent on taking care of their own as they build a proud history. It was an era when family members stuck together through thick and thin—happiness, contentment or grief, determined to survive each new challenge.

JoEllen Conger… Conger Books Reviews USA

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5 Worthy Stars!  

A true tale of two adventurous couples reaching across the world to fulfil life’s dreams…a major achievement in the mid-nineteenth century.

The evolution of the steam engine propelled Great Britain along its track to become the most powerful nation in the nineteenth century world. The railway industry, for many families, became a lifetime career. In An Epic Life, two couples from different lifestyles, realise a dream as their lives whisk together in a froth-and-bubble adventure. It creates on the far side of the world, a dynasty.

This true tale tells of all the challenges, their excitement, adventure, hardships and successes.

A true Epic.

Libby Abbott – Aussie eBook Reviews

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5+ Stars !    Finalist in the International Epic Award, 2011

Multi-published historical writer, Kev Richardson, has a way of bringing the history of his homeland, up front and personal. A Welcome War presents a young lad’s impressions and compulsion to follow the happenings of World War II. He recounts his personal translation of the war that changed his life. As a young teenager it influenced his future more by military strategy, political power and bathos than by parents or mentors. In discovering history and geography, he finds the lessons graphic indeed.

To use his own words, “It beats schoolwork, hands-down!”

JoEllen Conger… Conger Books Reviews USA

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Award Winner! 5+ Stars !  

World War 2 was the most welcome and alluring war of all time.

A ten-year-old lad begins the saga of his next six years influenced more by military strategy, political power and bathos than by parents or mentors.

As a means of realising how people react to adverse situations, and in discovering history and geography, he finds the lessons graphic indeed. To use his own words, “It beats schoolwork, hands down!”

Libby Abbott – Aussie eBook Reviews

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5+ Stars!  

Multi-published historical writer, Kev Richardson’s slant on 17^th Century history comes across as very personally realistic; factions of the ruling class fight to maintain a hold on religious beliefs. In Faith And Frenzy he introduces Richard Bray, wife, Beatrix and their extensive family who live through and survive England’s bloody Civil War.

If you like to live the history you are reading, this book is extremely well presented. I highly recommend it.

JoEllen, Conger Book Reviews, USA

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5 Stars! 

In Faith and Frenzy, Kev Richardson, proven storyteller, transports you into the middle ages, into hearts and minds of bewildered innocents as their world erupts.

Hadn’t Englanders had enough of invaders, the Vikings, Normans, Picts and Scots without their world now erupting in religious mayhem and civil war? Richardson paints anguish, ordeal and dolour as families opt for different sides. Can either win?

Another fine work from this writer’s canny sense of perception.

Libby Abbott, Aussie e-Book Reviews

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5+ Stars!  

Kev Richardson outdoes himself in telling the tale of lasting love that inspired his life. In A Home For Old Ladies, he touches your heartstrings recounting Evan and Maggie’s tale of inner-fire at first sight, the joy of a lasting relationship as they follow their individual careers and cozy evenings by an open hearth.

The extensive renovation of the family’s estate, Stanford Lodge, is the very power that holds the family unit together until daughter, Leanne and her brother, Paul grow up to follow their own paths. I fell in love with Evan Robson and his sweet relationship with Maggie. The love scenes are so dear, so tender and so touching that I wished I were she.

JoEllen Conger – Conger Book Reviews – USA

5 Stars! 

A Home For Old Ladiesis restored from derelict to what its time-worn patients would have imagined of their hospice in its heyday. They had watched it die. New generation lovers use those old ladies’ dreams as inspiration for restoration. Such labours of love exemplify how togetherness, understanding, conjoining—all the essences of sharing can help remould an already forgotten family. Every essence of solidarity proves essential in the renaissance of such a home, the bonding of family love that undoubtedly inspired its creation.

Richardson overlays personal experiences on such a backdrop, sharing with his Maggie, an inspiring tale of absorbing all such negatives as doubt, insecurity and fear of rejection.

Libby Abbott, Aussie eBook Reviews

A Home for Old Ladies is a charming read from the first to the last page, a story of an Australian family in the 1970’s who strove to make each day count. Their love and support of each other made a difference. It also brought them sorrow. For a glimpse of Australia during the 1970’s, this is the book to read.

Katherine Pym, author of Historical London in the 1660’s and one French Revolution novel
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5  Stars!!!  
Well known multi-published historical writer, Kevin Richardson’s storylines have never disappointed me. He writes this tribute to Summy Lu, a resourceful woman during a time of war. Summy Lu, although living in a time when it wasn’t popular to educate the woman-folk, nonetheless used her natural instincts to keep her large family together. Richardson presents another vivid war-time account of one woman’s struggle against the times. This gripping tale is a powerful acknowledgement to the ingenuity of one woman who survived during a time when war’s influence was tearing families apart. This book is a keeper. I highly recommend it.

JoEllen, Conger Book Reviews, USA

 

5 Stars for Summy Lu!   

Kev Richardson does it again! This time it is an uneducated woman’s motherly drive not only bearing and bringing up under hardships, her own children to lead successful lives, yet fosters others in need of care. It illustrates how one can put personal problems aside to overcome her lack of education in order to train all children to consider others.

A capital contribution from a male novelist, to a female’s natural urge to succour children.

Libby Abbott – Aussie eBook Reviews

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5 Stars !   

To bring Mark Carmody’s shattered nerves back on line in time to face the European Masters Snooker Championship after being viciously attacked by a psycho, cricket-bat wielding punk, the young thirty-two year old snooker professional is seeking a notable diversion. He is recommended to invest his shattered nerves to a rich man’s ten day holiday at Turtle Island’s Blue Lagoon.

Yes indeed, the same location where the movie film of The Blue Lagoon was recorded. While there, Mark meets his soul-mate, and the rest is history. I highly recommend it. It isn’t always war that changes history.

JoEllen, Conger Books Reviews, USA

 

5 Stars !!!  

Kev Richardson’s Turtle Island, the famous Fijian resort on every tongue and in every yearning breast during the 1980s and 1990s, claimed by Harpers and Queen magazine as “One the 10 top hotels of the World”, is a must for every Romance reader on the planet… and every one of its lovers. Classified fiction is only that some names have been changed, yet every incident and every character is based on the real life experience of Kev and wife Maggie’s two visits during their lucky lives.

Highly recommended !!! is my advice.

Libby Abbott – Aussie eBook Reviews

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5+ Stars! 

In A Soul Forsaken, Kev Richardson exposes yet another unique twist in his long list of personal experiences when travelling.

At a History Seminar at the Cairo Museum, a chance meeting with a local father and son, his hero is exposed to an intriguing anomaly in humanitarian law. An Egyptian born son can be educated to achieve honours in his chosen university studies, yet is denied the right to make it a career.

This true tale is of a young man who by Egyptian law, must take his father’s nationality, making him a foreigner in his land of birth. Another law denies foreigners in Egypt, the right to work. Because his father’s country is in an ongoing civil war, the young man risks assassination if even visiting there, let alone wanting to reside and work.

A visiting foreigner of a western country takes up the challenge of finding a way around the poor fellow’s political dilemma.

Richardson, in yet another work of fine character studies, excels himself in untangling such a humane tangle.

Libby Abbot, Aussie eBook Reviews

5+ Stars! 

I highly recommend reading A Soul Forsaken, whichis a very sensitive and touching story. Kev Richardson, multi-published Historical writer brings us a tale of a young man considered a foreigner in his own birth country, without privileges or freedoms, that the average person would consider his birth right. I was emotionally drawn into the injustice of Ali el Haq’s situation. You too will fall in love with Ali’s struggle and determination to find a country willing to grant him the right to live a productive life.

JoEllen Conger – Conger Book Reviews USA

 

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5 Stars!  

Connor Cope, an international travel journalist, finds himself on assignment in Thailand, struggling to comprehend the complex language and customs of a foreign country. Not being able to untangle the complexity of the Thai language he hires a trained teenage guide. Jydee faithfully creates their travel schedule for the coming day.

As soon as Connor’s family learns that his precocious teenage guide, has been kidnapped, they come together as Connor’s Cabal. They support him as they attempt to outwit the unethical police force, as well as the gruff kidnapper, Sipong Suosard. The blackguard has taken little concern for the young boy’s emotional state by threatening his death if the ransom money isn’t forthcoming? The cabal plots hurriedly to remove Jydee from harms way. A hard thing to do in a land where you can’t even read the street signs.

Can Connor, or his family cabal outwit the kidnapper and his henchmen?

 JoEllen – Conger Book Reviews USA

5+ Stars!   

Action-Adventure indeed! Kev Richardson’s latest work Connor’s Cabal  keeps one turning pages. Kidnap and threats of murder ensures one stays mesmerised. And Oh, that ending—real nail-biting stuff!

 

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