Occupation Novelist, author Name Rob Chidley Education Poole Grammar School | Nationality British Role Writer | |
Notable works Building Bridges: Is there Hope for North Korea? Books Building Bridges: Is There Hope for North Korea?, Third Tribe | ||
Robert Nicholas Chidley (born 1981) is a British writer. His most recent book, Building Bridges: Is there Hope for North Korea, co-authored with David Alton, was published by Lion in 2013.
Biography
Rob Chidley was born in Hastings in 1981, and raised in Dorset on the south coast of England. He read English at Birmingham University before completing a Postgraduate Certificate in Secondary Education and qualifying as a teacher. In 2003, he returned to Dorset and took up a post teaching English at Poole Grammar School. He left the classroom in 2005 and moved to Warwickshire where he began writing for humanitarian organisations and charities including Habitat for Humanity, British and Foreign Bible Society, Wycliffe Bible Translators and Baroness Cox's charity HART. He is also the magazine editor for the UK's Association of Christian Writers.
Rob Chidley's first foray into publishing was with the co-published novel The Third Tribe. The novel received an endorsement from New York Times best-selling author G.P. Taylor and a four-star review from Christianity Magazine, which said, "Compellingly told with masterful description... An intriguing and intelligent story... Be prepared to be drawn in! It leaves the reader gasping." Extracts from the book were used in the English Schools' textbook How to Write like a Writer. Rob Chidley also made a number of appearances, including contributing to the Greenbelt Festival (2009) speakers' programme.
In May 2013, Lion Books, an imprint of Lion Hudson, published Building Bridges: Is there Hope for North Korea? which Rob Chidley co-authored with human rights expert David Alton, Baron Alton of Liverpool. The book received significant endorsements from Danny Smith (Jubilee), Lord David Steel and Baroness Cox.