Books by Robert Holmes

How do we know what we know? How do we know if it's true? Is there a difference between "fact" and "belief"? Is what we perceive to be real and "reality" the same? Ultimately, what can we know and what is beyond us? Science and religion respond in their own distinct ways to these questions, often in apparent conflict. But is it possible that they are both, in the end, simply complimentary expressions of our human condition? I have been intrigued by these questions for a lifetime and have woven them into a story of what might happen if science and faith collaborated in an attempt to bring about a second coming of Jesus. What if our advanced scientific capabilities were the necessary condition to bring life to faith and belief? What if... Bob Holmes is a retired educator and Human Resources manager. He has graduate degrees in Education and Social Science and served for 20 years as an elected member of his regional school committee. Bob originally planned to be a professional historian; he has a degree in Early American History from the College of William and Mary, in Williamsburg, Virginia, and has pursued history as an avocation throughout his life. He and his wife, Diane, have lived in their colonial farmhouse in Western Rhode Island for over 40 years. Here, where two of their three children were born at home, they raised all three kids and maintained a small farm. Bob is a collector of all things old and interesting and has involved his three grandchildren in his various hobbies. One of those hobbies is writing, and thus this book. Currently, he and Diane are enjoying their role as grandparents and their life as retirees.

'I was born in Addingham over the shop at 74 Main Street, on the 13th May 1925. My father was Allan Holmes and my mother Maggie Harrison. Note the spelling and names they are correct and not Margaret as is so often used.My father was then 39 and my mother 28 and for parents having their first child, considered very old for that time...'...So begins the story, in his words, of Robert 'Bob' Holmes - hard working husband, father, grandfather, soldier, cricketer, poacher...

An unabridged reading of this classic novelisation of a Sixth Doctor TV adventure. Disturbed by the time travel experiments of the evil Dastari and Chessene, the Time Lords send the Second Doctor and Jamie to investigate. Arriving on a station in deep space, they are attacked by a shock force of Sontarans, and the Doctor is left for dead. Across the gulfs of time and space, the Sixth Doctor discovers that his former incarnation is very much alive. Together with Peri and Jamie, he must rescue his other self before the plans of Dastari and Chessene reach their deadly and shocking conclusion...