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Reside now on the Devon coast. lived my first 30 years in Brixton South London and regularly return for a fix of its vibrancy. Have been writing as a hobby for years mostly short stories, I love the escapism it brings. My book Sativa is a crime novel, I have left off the end as it will only be a read if I am asked to reveal its climax. The sequel is started, but am now putting life into an imaginary character I shared with my kids in stories as they grew. Have been in the antique game for all my life, have a passion for English furniture design and Doulton Lambeth ware and artists from the workshops there,being a Lambeth boy of course. Love Devon especially in summer and a stormy beach walk is a love too. Have no qualifications except the most important a true love of life knowing each day whatever it brings is a gift, believing too that for all the strife in the world my share of it came with a lucky geographical positioning and at a half decent chapter in our evolution.



favourite books

One flew over the cukoos nest.
The Alchemist
The Witch Of Portobello
The moving toyshop.
The agony and the ecstacy.

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Sativa

Robert Andrew Smythe

Three worlds collide changing many futures forever. Sativa is the tale of normality corrupted and dragged into the darker dysfunctional side of life.


Adam Campbell runs an unremarkable antique business in South London. Hamida Fazzari runs an extremely remarkable international cannabis trafficking operation. Art Van Bommel runs behind Hamida, her partner in a spiteful, vicious, lonely and dysfunctional relationship. Sativa is the story of lust, greed, violence and base selfishness in a world where only the truly heartless can succeed.

 

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Kenneth Edward Lim wrote 34 days ago

Robert, You might want to click on www.scribd.com/dloganw whereby Da....

Lenny Banks wrote 180 days ago

Hi Urbantales, I am reading and commenting on the books on the site, ....

Michael Matula wrote 200 days ago

Thank you, Robert. I truly appreciate the support you gave me, for I....

gingerknucklehairs wrote 200 days ago

Hi Robert. You're not leaving us though, are you? I will replace yo....

Verse_Artiste wrote 202 days ago

Thanks, Robert. I got your email and will read as time permits and s....

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I wrote 216 days ago

I can see that you have re-wriiten a hell of a lot of your book with startling results you bring much more clarity to that which you wish to portray. I do not get too technical with my comments I like your story and writing style good luck in your endeavours. view book

I wrote 216 days ago

The Diary of Paul Cush is a wonderful piece of fiction. The imaginative use of the diary as the medium chosen to portray events is great, I found this piece intruiging and full of suspense and Lamia is such a wonderful character. The Cush family story is a great horror tale I look forward to the oth... view book

I wrote 220 days ago
I wrote 220 days ago

A very well written story I like the character building in chapter one, the interaction and joining of forces between Emily and Desmond was good. I felt that for folks in such danger and under extreme threat the tension level a little tame and casual in this chapter but tha is my only small negative... view book

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