Richard Tomlinson
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Richard Tomlinson

Literature & Fiction
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Prior to writing novels, my life was divided between being an academic (Australia, USA and South Africa) and an urban policy consultant (Southern Africa). Throughout my life I have dreamed plays, movies and books whose origins lay in something I saw, read or did. Aside from a play many decades ago, it was heading into retirement that I wondered about actually writing the books or plays. The Bologna Miracles 1498, provides the distance for a satirical take on present day academia and the church. The novel arises follows reading how physicists cannot disprove the possibility of time travel. It is a coincidence that circa 1498 Michelangelo, Copernicus and the next Pope were located in Bologna and Da Vinci was down the road. The First Violin, set in Vienna and a Mauthausen subcamp, 1938-1945, is the exception. I have no idea why I dreamed the novel when visiting Kanazawa, Japan. The novel required a couple of years of research, including valuable periods at the Library of Congress and the Holocaust Museum, and time in Vienna, a wonderful city.
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