Robert Rycroft: 8 books

Edgar Winston Sidebottom had just been sacked from his car salesman’s job, on Brisbane’s notorious Magic Mile at Moorooka, Brisbane The management had a warped sense of humour. Only a mob of sadists would have sacked a bloke on his birthday. Friday the twenty-sixth of May 1996 was not one of Edgar's...

Ron Cartwright’s RAF career comes to a sticky end. Should he pursue his ambition to become a TV engineer, or take Sir Reginald’s offer of chauffeur? What should he do about Daisy?Ron Cartwright, 23, grandly imagined a long successful career in the Royal Air Force, perhaps twelve or twenty two...

Ronald Cartwright and his wife, Daisy, were smuggled out of Yorkshire by MI6, to get them out of the clutches of a Russian mole. With names changed to Donald and Elizabeth Watmough, they find themselves spirited away to Western Australia. Under the supposedly watchful eye of ASIO, Don turns their...

Ron Cartwright’s proposal of marriage is accepted. Before he can buy a ring, he receives a leap year proposal from an unexpected quarter. The landlord of the Runswick Inn, Ron’s father, is suddenly taken critically ill.Sydney Barraclough, Ron’s best friend, has appointed him estate manager of...

Ronald Cartwright, alias Donald Watmough, was banished by ASIO to the Queensland country city of Toowoomba, circa 1995. The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation have another job for our hapless ex-RAF erk. Payback time! Watmough adamantly refused, but capitulated when ASIO threaten to gaol...

Cartwright pals up with his schooldays friend, Deirdre, after his engagement to Daisy comes to an abrupt end. Deirdre uncharacteristically gets tipsy and attempts to seduce Ron.MI6 keep tabs on Cartwright, the hapless ex-RAF erk. The notorious communist agent, ex-RAF Sergeant Brassard, is incarcerated...

Ronald Cartwright, maligned ex-RAF erk, lands himself in a fateful new TV service job, which rapidly turns sour. Friends and family do all in their power to dissuade him, to no avail. The owner of Calderdale TV & Electrical Ltd, a one time Italian fascist, runs a very dodgy business. His service manager...

Yorkshire Cricket was in a conundrum. Experiencing one of the worst climatic English winters on record, the 2015 season opened dismally. Some pitches were barely fit to play on after months of snow, then torrential rain. The club no longer hosted the Ashes Series. Any financial help or investment...