Robin Bennett

Robin Bennett attended Royal Holloway and graduated in 1992 with a degree in Modern Languages.[https://archive.today/20130630061840/http://www.royalhollowayentrepreneurs.com/2011/01/robin-bennett-aktuel-translations-podcast/]

Translation company Aktuel Translations was founded in 1992 as part of the Bennett Group and provides translations in various fields to corporate businesses.{{cite web|url=http://www.worcester.ac.uk/discover/5995.html|title=Entrepreneur and Author Talks to Worcester Students About Business Start Up - University of Worcester|publisher=worcester.ac.uk|accessdate=18 August 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.henleystandard.co.uk/business/business.php?id=36416|title=Henley on Thames News | Local entrepreneur's guide to success|publisher=henleystandard.co.uk|accessdate=18 August 2016}}{{Cite web |title=Aktuel Translations website |url=https://www.aktueltranslations.com/ |url-status=live |website=Aktuel Translations}}

Other companies in the Bennett Group include London Tutors, thisisplanetearth.com, Quarto Translations, which provides translations for publishers, and Patent Translations International, which provides patent translations for legal services.

Robin has also spoken at UK universities and at conferences about how to start up a new business.{{cite web|url=http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/9060096.Smart_author_inspires_students_to_get_a_start/|title=Smart author inspires students to get a start (From Worcester News)|publisher=worcesternews.co.uk|accessdate=18 August 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.harriman-house.com/press/full/296|title=How to start a business for under £5,000 | Start-up Smart by Robin Bennett | Harriman House|publisher=harriman-house.com|accessdate=18 August 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.bangor.ac.uk/news/full.php.en?nid=4682&tnid=4682|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608060203/http://www.bangor.ac.uk/news/full.php.en?nid=4682&tnid=4682 |archive-date=2011-06-08 |url-status=dead|title=How to start a business for under £5,000 - News and Events at Bangor University|accessdate=18 August 2016}}

Robin Bennett founded independent publishing house Monster Books in 1997. He has written numerous books for both children and adults.

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• Alpha Dad (2005)
• Start-up Smart (2010)
• How to Make a Good Living Running Your Own Business (2012)
• Kicking the Property Ladder (2012)
• Life's a Banquet (2020)
• Rampaging Rugby (2021)
• Fantastic Football (2022)
• Cracking Cricket (2023)
• Fieldsports, Foraging and Terrible Ordeals (2023)
• The Linguist's Lexicon (2024)
• The Good Snooze Guide of Great Britain (2024)

• Creake Castle: The Pepper King (2007)
• Creake Castle: Tobias Brown, Inventor Esquire (2007)
• Creake Castle: Miles Byfar and the Christmas Spirit (2011)
• Small Vampires: Picus the Thief (2011)
• The Angel of Mons (2013)
• Small Vampires: Mousch the Crooked (2013)
• Iron Knights (2013)
• Small Vampires: Raptor the Avenger (2015)
• The Hairy Hand (2019)
• Space Dragons (2019)
• Monster Max Series (2021, 2022, 2023)
• XII (2022)
• Lief the Lesser (2023)
• Tucker's Time Machine Telescope (2025)

• Fairy Tales and Other (1997)
• Nervus Rex and other Rhymes (2002)
• Bad Boris (2007)
• Bullets and Bones (2007)
• Pippin and the Moon (2007)
• Quincy Duff and the Tangley Lane Trio (2007)
• SPLAT! (2018)

• Buk (2013), narrated by Imogen Stubbs
• Monster Max and the Bobble Hat of Forgetting (2021), narrated by Robin Bennett
• Rampaging Rugby (2021), narrated by Robin Bennett and Conrad Smith

• Fantastic Britain (2016), writer and producer

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Robin Bennett was listed in the Who's Who of British Business in 2003.

His novel Picus the Thief was longlisted for the British Fantasy Award 2012 {{cite web|url=http://www.britishfantasysociety.co.uk/news/lists-of-members-recommendations-for-british-fantasy-awards/|title=Lists of members' recommendations for British Fantasy Awards|date=15 May 2012|publisher=}} and won the Writer Magazine Indie Book of the Year Award 2012.

His children's book The Hairy Hand was longlisted for The Times/Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition 2013.{{cite web|url=http://doublecluck.com/news/|title=Chicken House Books website|first=Chicken House|last=Books|website=doublecluck.com}}{{cite web|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/chicken-house-longlist-the-hairy-hand-by-robin-bennett-3j0kwg5g3c9|title=Chicken House longlist: The Hairy Hand by Robin Bennett | The Times|publisher=The Times|access-date=18 August 2016}}

In May 2016 his documentary "Fantastic Britain", about the British obsession with magic and folklore, won an "Award of Excellence" at the Hollywood International Independent Documentary Awards (HIIDA).{{cite web|url=http://www.hiida.com/may-2016-winners.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160620143653/http://www.hiida.com/may-2016-winners.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=20 June 2016|title=May 2016 Winners -  Hollywood International Independent Documentary Awards|publisher=hiida.com|accessdate=18 August 2016}}

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