Robina Williams Web Site

Robina lives in north-west England, near Liverpool. She has an M.A. in Modern Languages from Oxford University and an M.Phil. research degree in English Literature from Liverpool University. Her research thesis traced the influence of painting on the writings of Wilkie Collins. She is interested in nineteenth-century art, and features paintings in the plots of her novels. Her article Paintings as Inspiration is on her website, http://www.robinawilliams.com.

Robina has been a schoolteacher, college lecturer, secretary and freelance journalist.

Robina's first fantasy novel, Jerome and the Seraph, was published electronically in 2002 by Twilight Times Books, www.twilighttimesbooks.com. It is about to appear in paperback. Her second novel in The Quantum Cat series has just been published as an ebook by the same publisher, and will appear in print shortly. The principal characters of Angelos are once more Brother Jerome and his quantum cat (Leo, as he's known in the friary; Quant, as he's known to his friends in the afterworld). A quantum leap precipitated by a rockfall in the labyrinth at Knossos catapults Jerome into ancient Crete, while an angry, bellowing Minotaur hurtles past him going in the opposite direction. Once in Crete, however, Jerome discovers it's not ancient but curiously contemporary. It's "the time thing" again. Meanwhile, back in the twenty-first century, Father Aidan, the Guardian of the friary, is having a crisis of faith...