Rob has written for numerous top-rated network UK TV shows, including CASUALTY, THE BILL, EASTENDERS, EMMERDALE, STELLA, VERA, HEARTBEAT, SOLDIER SOLDIER and THE STORY OF TRACY BEAKER.

Although Rob has written for many different series, he’s written most consistently for EASTENDERS. To date, Rob is the longest serving writer currently working on EASTENDERS and has written over three hundred and fifty episodes of the programme. In 2015, Rob received an Outstanding Achievement Award for his work on the show.

Rob also co-created and wrote all eight episodes of the BBC1 prime time drama series TIGER BAY as well co-creating and writing a three-part political thriller for ITV, IN THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS.

For the Welsh fourth channel Rob has story-lined over two thousand episodes of the popular daily drama serial POBOL Y CWM (PEOPLE OF THE VALLEY) as well as co-creating the drama series HALEN YN Y GWAED (SALT IN THE BLOOD) which ran for four series.

For BBC Radio 4, Rob has written thirty original radio plays, over a hundred episodes of THE ARCHERS and a ten-part children’s drama series.  Rob’s radio production LOSING PARADISE, a six part thriller co-produced by the BBC, ABC in Australia and CBC in Canada, won the Gold Drama Award at The New York International Radio Festival.  Rob has also written a four-part radio late night drama serial for Radio 4, NIGHTMOVES.

Rob’s radio drama, GWYNFOR v MARGARET, transmitted in November 2012 and was selected as BBC Radio 4’s Drama of the Week as was his latest radio play, a dramatisation of the extraordinary story of the Operation Julie drugs bust – titled simply, JULIE.

Rob has also written a non-fiction account of the last days in the life of Dylan Thomas, published by Macdonald and based on a documentary Rob initiated for ITV, THE FAR-AGO LAND. This production won the Documentary prize at the Celtic and San Francisco Film Festivals.

Rob’s TV drama, DOUBTING THOMAS was made as a German/Irish co-production between Littlebird Films and Tatfilm.

Rob was joint lead writer and Executive Producer on CRASH, a drama series for BBC Wales from Tony Jordan’s Red Planet Pictures – and Rob was also Script Executive and writer on STELLA, a comedy-drama series for Sky 1 HD created by and featuring Ruth Jones (GAVIN AND STACEY).

Rob wrote for the BBC 1, multi-award-winning Drama Series, THE INDIAN DOCTOR and Rob is also currently developing two new drama series for the company behind THE INDIAN DOCTOR, Rondo Cyf. Rob has also been writing stories for the ITV Studios series, VERA.

Rob’s short film SACRIFICE, was released theatrically and Rob’s feature film, BLUE MONDAY, directed by Bafta-Award winner, Suzanne Phillips, has now been completed. BLUE MONDAY was selected for a highly successful BAFTA screening in June 2016.

Rob is working on two further feature film scripts, BILLY FENNER IS A PILLOCK, a road movie featuring two poachers and an illicitly-acquired four-hundred pound fish – and TAKE THREE GIRLS, in which three prostitutes are persuaded to attend an Outward Bound course as an alternative to prison.

Rob completed his first novel, GIMME SHELTER, in 2013, a crime thriller set in the hidden world of witness protection. GIMME SHELTER is the first in a planned series of novels utilising the same setting and focusing on the same principal characters. GIMME SHELTER was published by Y Lolfa and attracted rave reviews. GIMME SHELTER has been optioned for TV by the acclaimed makers of NEW TRICKS, the Warners Brothers subsidiary, Wall To Wall TV.

Rob’s second novel, THE POET AND THE PRIVATE EYE,  was published by Y Lolfa in the summer of 2014 and Rob’s third novel, SECRET SHELTER, the much-anticipated sequel to GIMME SHELTER was published, also by Y Lolfa, in July 2015. A fourth, stand-alone, novel, INVESTIGATING MR WAKEFIELD, was published by Y Lolfa in April, 2016.

Rob’s fifth novel – HEAR THE ECHO – was published by Y Lolfa in July 2018. The novel employs a dual narrative to tell the story of two women – Chiara, who moves from Italy to Wales, and Frankie, who travels in the opposite direction almost one hundred years later. The two women never meet, but as their joint experiences begin to resonate down through time, their journeys intersect. And each becomes as real to the other as if they’d physically breathed the same air.

Rob’s sixth novel – SHELTER ME – also published by Y Lolfa in 2020, completes the trilogy of crime novels, begun by GIMME SHELTER in 2013 and completes also the final instalment in the ongoing story of Ros and Masters.

Rob’s next two novels - I’M NOT THERE - and - THE DEVIL’S BRIDGE AFFAIR - were published by Hobeck Books in 2022.

I’M NOT THERE focuses on a murder investigation set on the idyllic, if occasionally sinister, Isle of Wight. The investigation features a female DI, Lara Arden, whose mother disappeared on a busy train some twenty years previously. In solving the current investigation, Lara also discovers the truth behind her mother’s disappearance.

THE DEVIL’S BRIDGE AFFAIR is set in a small town haunted by a local legend involving the devil himself. Most in the town regard it as a flight of fancy. But when a massive scandal breaks involving a schoolboy and his English teacher, even the most die-hard of sceptics begin to wonder if a devil-like figure is walking in their midst.

Rob’s next novel - his ninth - was published by Fahrenheit Press, also in 2022. CASH RULES EVERYTHING AROUND ME is a heist story, but it’s also a book about love, and friendship and a bunch of people living on the edges of society doing their best to live their lives any way they can

CAN I TRUST YOU? is Rob’s tenth novel and was published by Hobeck Books in 2023. Twenty years ago, Axel Petersen’s life imploded when his teenage daughter disappeared. He was the last person to see her. Twenty years to the day, a second girl vanishes. He’s the last person to see her too. With suspicion about his role in the two disappearances at fiver pitch, Axel plunges into a search for this second missing girl, becoming increasingly convinced there’s a strong connection between the present-day disappearance and the twenty-year old mystery. And he’s right, in ways he can hardly begin to imagine …

PRIVATE INVESTIGATIONS, published by Hobeck Books in 2024, is Rob’s eleventh novel and is the sequel to I’M NOT THERE. A young girl is in a coma after a tragic road accident. Another young girl has washed up on a remote beach, her identity unknown. Meanwhile, an old man is murdered and hastily buried in a makeshift grave, while a tormented pastor is unable to erase old misdeeds. Different souls, but with one common link - the past.

Detective Inspector Lara Arden has her own demons to deal with. But as she investigates this raft of seemingly disparate crimes, she begins to suspect there’s a further common link at work here - her own past. When all when all roads lead back to a former children’s home called Kenwood - and a macabre half-size windmill sited in its grounds– suspicion hardens into conviction. Lara always believed that Kenwood had to be destroyed. Its old stories haunted it too strongly, like spirits yet to find their voice.  But do the tendrils of its past cling to everyone associated with it, too? And do they need to be destroyed as well?

 YEAR ZERO, published by Hobeck Books in May 2025, is Rob’s twelfth novel and is a post-World War Two historical spy thriller.

Berlin in May 1945 is a city without institutions in a continent that has become a wasteland. Thousands of former Nazis have been killed in Allied purges, many more incarcerated in the very concentration camps they themselves established.

 But the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, has a problem. One of those former Nazis is actually a British spy, Edward Kayne, who has intercepted a top-secret document that Churchill insists is vital to settling the peace.

 Martin Geller is selected to journey into the heart of darkness and extract Kayne, but a carrot is dangled before him. His daughter, Zaya, had been abducted two years before as part of the Lebensborn programme - the kidnapping of children deemed to be ripe for ‘Germanisation’. Zaya is now in the same camp. Geller sets off on a two-pronged mission – to extract Kayne and rescue Zaya. But Geller will discover that far from settling the peace, the document that Kayne has intercepted threatens the opposite.

 Can Geller save his daughter from the gates of hell? And how does Geller reconcile the rescue of Kayne with his knowledge that by doing so he may be condemning the world to a new Armageddon?