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ROBERT LLEWELLYN wrote his first novel at the age of twelve. By the time he'd published The Man on Platform 5 (his first grown-up work of fiction), thirty years had passed. In the intervening period he'd worked as an artist's model, a bespoke shoemaker, a tree surgeon, a screenwriter, a comedian, actor and TV presenter. He has appeared regularly on British television since 1987 in various guises including under quite absurd amounts of rubber in Red Dwarf; covered in grease and dust in Scrapheap Challenge; in terrifying machines on How Do They Do It? and sitting in a car chatting in Carpool. Robert Llewellyn writes under a rack of solar panels in Gloucestershire, and News from Gardenia is his fifth work of fiction.