Ross Richdale
Bio: After a teaching career, Ross Richdale now writes full time. He has completed nine contemporary and three science fiction novels, most of which are now on line as ebooks. He lives in the small university city of Palmerston North in the North Island of New Zealand and is married with three children. His wife, Kay, still carries the burden of teaching children at a local primary (elementary) school.
After his wife goes off to work every morning, Ross pounds away on iMac to form the characters and plots for his novels accompanied by his two cats.
When he is not writing, Ross enjoys drawing, wandering in the countryside and, in the summer, swimming in mountain streams or bounding through the rapids in a tire inner tube. Many of his novels reflect his interest in the rural lifestyle as well as the cross section of personalities encountered during his years as a teacher. Ordinary people rather than the super rich, the super powerful or violent, are the main characters in his novels. He is also interested in current events and uses international incidents as a backdrop for many of his novels.
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Affinity & Trust [MultiFormat]
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Zuzana Milenkova, rescued from her fate as a sex slave of a rebel militia group in war-torn Bosnia, finds herself alone in a strange new country. There are many obstacles to overcome, a new language to learn, different customs, and a new career, but she also has to come to terms with the horror of the past before she can move on and create a new future. (Published: 2000)
Words: 82090 - Reading Time: 234-328 min.
Category: Historical Fiction
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Anu Factor [MultiFormat]
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Anu is possibly the last Blue, an advanced humanoid race. She must be protected so the genes of her species are passed onto future generations. An environment is made for Anu and the humans with her. It is a hallucinatory world but it works well. This is until a minor car accident causes Talbot to discover that his real existence is an empty, derelict township. His sports car is just an old vehicle and his apartment is as old and tatty as the clothes he wears. Also the dozens of friends and acqu... more info>> (Published: 2008)
Words: 65963 - Reading Time: 188-263 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Armlet [MultiFormat]
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The armlet Kolina Lagerfelt is given by her dying grandmother is more than a piece of jewellery. It has been handed down through the family for countess generations. Kolina places the armlet on and is connected to Eboff, a voice in her mind. Eboff is an advanced computer with news that she is the descendant of a starship crew that crashed on the planet a millennium before. Only when other ancestors of this crew are found that technology far superior to that now known on the planet can be accesse... more info>> (Published: 2006)
Words: 80328 - Reading Time: 229-321 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Astrid's Coast [MultiFormat]
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Astrid Stowell moves to Portland, Oregon to live with her grandfather after her mother dies. Intrique and tragedy mix as Astrid makes new friends and learns to love again. (Published: 2003)
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Behind the Fire [MultiFormat]
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Behind the Fire is an exciting romantic adventure set in the exotic outback of New South Wales, Australia. Teenagers Abbey and Cooper are in their final year at high school, both have problems they are trying to escape from, and run away together. Faced with bushfire, criminals on the run, and possible murder charges, will they even survive? (Published: 2006)
Words: 47746 - Reading Time: 136-190 min.
Category: Young Adult
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Beyond Infinity [MultiFormat]
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Brittany Forbes does not know that she is human, nor that she is carrying a transmitter that emits a signal to her ancestors and others that are racing to find her... (Published: 2003)
Words: 74293 - Reading Time: 212-297 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Blemished Jewel [MultiFormat]
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Gail Fernhill, newly appointed of principal of Queen Anne's Girls' School in Dunedin, New Zealand is haunted by her past but befriends new property manager Neil Goodall. Neil pierces her reserve to support and help her when he discovers that as a teenager, she killed her abusive father in self-defence. However, the case is reopened after the discovery of her father's rifle. Inspector Peter Carrington attempts, by fair means or foul, to build up a murder case against Gail and directs Tania Brogan... more info>> (Published: 2006)
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Crystal Souls [MultiFormat]
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When Jasmin is caught in the terrorist attack on the London underground in 2005, her terrified thoughts help her, as do similar thoughts for Katherine in the year 1310, Trudie in 1874, Giselle in 1945 and Zarine in 2374. They are all awoken in 2341 as electrical charges contained within crystal balls. With Zarine's knowledge and the base's computer, they are given new physical bodies and find that they are identical in appearance. They must find out about themselves and also ward off the spunoid... more info>> (Published: 2006)
Words: 67106 - Reading Time: 191-268 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Eagle's Claw Lake [MultiFormat]
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 Doctor Reid Tucker's intention to spend the summer at a remote cabin at Eagle's Claw Lake in northeast Washington State with only his dog, Cinders, never eventuates. On the trip there, pilot Kate Meltz calls in with the amphibian to a commune at the other end of the lake. While waiting on board, Reid pulls a desperate and distressed teenage girl, Lorie Somerville, from the water. This begins a frightening chain of events as fanatical commune leader, Peter Littlejohn, tries to find Lorie and prev... more info>>
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Generation 7 [MultiFormat]
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On the planet of Delpe, eighty light years from Earth, 1300 human settlers, descended from a stranded starship crew, have been at war with the crucnon, the native intelligent species of insect creatures, for seven generations. When a flying female named Jaddig Qarte crashes in human territory she is befriended by human, Holly Jurjevics, Generation 7 Leader. Holly finds the clicker (as humans call them) a compassionate creature with high moral values, not the ruthless killer expected. Later, it i... more info>> (Published: 2000)
Words: 105297 - Reading Time: 300-421 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Into the Wormhole [MultiFormat]
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When Talya is sucked into a wormhole she arrives in a new world where humans are primitive villagers pursued by hexalimbs, six limbed creatures, for food. Along with Gavin, also stranded from Earth, she helps the local humans. They rescue and befriend Kysum, a tailed humanoid who can metamorphose into other beings, from a hexalimb spaceship. In an ongoing fight against the aliens they search for a way home. In doing so, they transverse time-space and change the course of history in this far off ... more info>> (Published: 2006)
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Category: Science Fiction
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Liberty & Opportunity [MultiFormat]
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Liberty and Opportunity is the heartwarming saga of four forthright, liberal women, spanning five generations, three continents, two world wars, and one hundred years. You will see through your own eyes what it was like to be them and to live as they did. The story begins in 1898 with Amanda's elopement with her beloved Jack and her struggle to survive and prosper away from her domineering father. The two begin a new life in Vancouver, Canada where, over the years, she develops a publishing empi... more info>> (Published: 2000)
Words: 120831 - Reading Time: 345-483 min.
Category: Historical Fiction
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Long Valley Road [MultiFormat]
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When the American Berg family emigrates to a New Zealand farm, widower, John, his two daughters, Julie 12, Helen 6 and mother-in-law Fiona, are thrown into the turmoil of a rural society where the local one teacher school is threatened with closure and locals are divided on the issue. He supports Kylena Delton, principal at Long Valley Road School. John's friendship to Kylena turns to romance, something Julie has to come to terms with. This fast paced novel combines human emotions of love, empat... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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Mind Split [MultiFormat]
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When a group of bees attack a group of students at a graduation party, every student is stung once in the neck--everyone but Madison Evans. When she wakes up, she finds herself in a strange world, but she still remembers her life on Earth. Her friends, who were also stung, have no memories of home. When she falls asleep, Madison awakens back on Earth with her friends who have no memory of being with her on this new world. Madison soon realizes that she has two versions of her friends, and that s... more info>> (Published: 2003)
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Category: Science Fiction
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Omega Seed [MultiFormat]
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The search of a millennium is over. Computers aboard Inter-galactic Starship Omega find a planet with water and oxygen in usable quantities to sustain humanoid life. It is over populated, polluted and has one social problem; forty eight percent of the human population are males, well beyond the one in a thousand necessary on Planet Delta to maintain the sperm banks. However, the humanoids aboard cannot be kept alive for the estimated two hundred years required to find another solar system so the... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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Category: Science Fiction
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Shadows Behind [MultiFormat]
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It is 1999 and Kosovar refugee Niana Bolsa is abandoned by the Serbs to fend for herself in the mountains. In freezing temperatures, the distraught woman staggers along an empty road through virgin snow. At the point of near collapse she comes across a tractor and trailer by the roadside with two terrified children hiding there. Their grandparents have been shot and mother taken away. Determined to save the children, Niana takes them and heads for Albania. With all records destroyed, nobody quer... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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Stretched Horizons [MultiFormat]
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When Sunset Grove Primary's Headteacher, Bree Ashworth goes to help teacher Jenny Dench in her classroom she is attacked by an intruder. The attacker escapes and Bree is taken to hospital. Her husband Colin arrives and tells her he is leaving to move from London with his mistress Linda Rouke. Bree has bookings to attend a reading conference in New Zealand over that country's summer vacation. With double tickets bought and Colin gone, she invites Jenny to come with her. In New Zealand the small c... more info>>
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Time Genes [MultiFormat]
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On Earth in our present time, Lara is involved in a serious road accident that leaves her as a quadriplegic. She is helped by going through a portal to Havenseed where technology not even discovered on Earth, is used to restore her to a normal healthy life. But does it? Unknown to herself and her family, her new body includes genetically enhanced genes with side effects, both positive and negative, that affect her family and herself, both now and in the future. Travel with Lara and her family th... more info>> (Published: 2008)
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Category: Science Fiction
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Time Portal [MultiFormat]
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When Rhett intercepts a stranger, Shelley in his holiday home it becomes apparent that she is not just an intruder caught in the act of illegally trespassing. Rhett and Shelley travel through a space-time portal where they are met by Dee, their twelve-year old daughter that they never knew existed. Dee is desperate for her brother, Corwin to be rescued. He has been caught in a trap set by the girifa, the reptilian equivalent of humanity. In this world, humans are the aliens. As they continue the... more info>> (Published: 2008)
Words: 60675 - Reading Time: 173-242 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Wind Across the Playground [MultiFormat]
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Neil Johnston a young school teacher arrives to take charge of a two teacher rural school at Ashleyvale in the South Island of New Zealand with his partner, liberated Lisa. She is just one of the five women who has a profound affect on his life through the next quarter a century. Margaret, a promiscuous farmer's wife engulfs Neil like a spider and almost tears his relationship with Lisa apart. Afterwards there is a tragedy, Kelly, the assistant teacher in the junior room at Ashleyvale and decisi... more info>> (Published: 2001)
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