UNITED KINGDOM AUTHOR · HISTORICAL · FICTION
Christopher Nicole
Also known as: Christopher Robin Nicole, Peter Grange
Christopher Robin Nicole was born on 7 December 1930 in Georgetown, Guyana, and was raised in the Caribbean. His education included: the Queen's College in Guyana; the Harrison College in Barbados; and was fellow by the Canadians Bankers Association. A romantic and passionate of history, he has been published since 1957 as Christopher Nicole, and continues to write into the 21st century with no intention of retiring. His historical fiction sagas set in tumultuous periods of war have become in best-sellers, and he has won international acclaim for his work under several pseudonyms, some of there female, that includes: Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C.R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He has worked with many of the most important British and international publishing houses: Jarrolds, Hutchinson, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, Jove, Michael Joseph, Mills & Boon, and Severn House. On 8 May 1982, Christopher married with the also writer Diana Bachmann. The marriage collabored under the pseudonym Max Marlow. With two sons and two daughters, they live in Guernsey, Channel Islands, UK.
"You don't like your mother very much, d'you, m'boy?"
— from The Pursuit, 2002
Most acclaimed
The secret memoirs of Lord Byron
Lord Byron was the most famous, the most scandalous, and most admired man in England early in the 19th century, for love affairs with his boyhood nurse, his half-sister, and numerous married women of aristocracy, not to mention prostitutes, servants, and even homosexuals, but he was also a great poet, satirist, and traveler. After Byron's death in 1824 his memoirs were burned as they were considered too scandalous. 150 years later, this novel's author imagine that he found in Greece an ancient manuscript in Byron's handwriting which could be the long lost memoirs. While this book is an ingenious literary fiction, it remains a vivid and bawdy recreation of Byron's life.
Lord of the Golden Fan
An historical novel of the life of Will Adams (1564–1620), an English adventurer who left Elizabethan Kent to voyage through Indonesia and become the first Englishman to visit Japan, where he became a Samurai after befriending Shogun Iyeyasu.
The Doom Fishermen
When a Russian trawler is mysteriously wrecked off Guernsey in the Channel Islands, British Intelligence wants to investigate because one of their agents was on board. However, the investigation could prove embarrassing since their agent was planning to defect with the trawler and Madam Anna Cantalena, Nobel Prize-winning marine biologist. Introducing Jonathan Anders, Britain's youngest secret agent. 23 years old, a chess-playing athlete with an intensely individual point of view, Jon is still in the middle of an intensive 3 year training period when an emergency forces his superiors to use him in the field. To discover what has caused a Russian trawler to sail into the reefs of Guernsey. Jon is called in to do some skin-diving around the wreck. A routine assignment? But Jon is not content with a routine investigation... And he promptly finds himself entangled in an international misadventure -- with the Russians trying to exterminate him and the British police pursing him for murder!