“He shifted his focus to The Ivy’s gleaming horseshoe bar, where slender staff in black uniforms and white aprons performed a penguin’s ballet of stretches, dips and passes as they prepared diners’ drinks. Despite the low pay and long hours, he envied their camaraderie and the stability of a regular wage. He imagined the satisfaction of going home physically tired and sinking into restful sleep.” — extract from Pseudo
Nick is a Stockholm-based storyteller who writes fiction about imperfect people making questionable choices and the inevitable complications that result.
Away from his fiction, Nick has worked as an award-winning journalist, TV producer, scriptwriter and speech writer — all of which has given him ample source material for his fiction. After a decade covering the world of entertainment, he veered away from showbiz to focus his reporting on health and social issues. Across a long career, he has developed and produced programmes for Channel 4 TV (UK) and has written for Esquire (UK), Men’s Health (UK), The Observer (UK), The Independent (UK), GQ (Australia), Details (US), and RTÉ (Ireland).
Interviewees have ranged from Marlon Brando and the Spice Girls to Nazi war criminals and prisoners on death row. As a speechwriter and scriptwriter, he’s worked with Olympian Michael Phelps, US President Jimmy Carter, and Oscar winner Morgan Freeman.
The good people he’s worked with inspire him. The bad and the ugly frequently find their way into his stories.
He was shortlisted for PPA Specialist Writer of the Year in 2006 and was National Magazines’ Feature Writer of the Year in 2007. A corporate film Nick scripted that was narrated by Morgan Freeman won silver at the 2023 New York Festivals TV & Film Awards.
He’s recently completed work on his first novel, Pseudo, which is a satirical noir set in London in the summer of 1997 about a music PR executive who makes one bad decision at the end of a very good day. He’s currently working on a second novel entitled Mansplaining the Menopause.
