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Nick Fletcher's Biography
Nick Fletcher was born in Willenhall, Staffordshire on September 4th
1947. His father Norman was an ex-Royal Navy gunner, his mother
Vera was a well-known club singer.
The family moved to Shropshire when Nick was just a
few weeks old and he was educated at Ketley Bank Junior School and
Wellington Grammar School. Leaving school when he was 16, Nick took a
job as a trainee reporter with a Wolverhampton news agency. He
went onto work for several Fleet Street titles including the News of
the World and The People, and spent several years as a crime reporter.
He decided to specialise in feature-writing, winning the Diversey
Award in 1984, and then spent several years as a showbusiness
journalist.
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Now a freelance, he
concentrates mainly on writing features on subjects such as cars and
antiques for newspapers and magazines all over the UK. An expert
on antiques and collecting, he has written several books on the
subject and is a regular guest on BBC radio. He is a member of
the Society of Authors and the Midland Group of Motoring Writers.
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In 1999, he started to write short stories, gaining
immediate success by being short-listed for the Philip Goode Memorial
Prize, and then receiving an award from World Wide Writers Magazine.
In 2000, a collection of his short stories was published in paperback,
Escaping the Rain (South Star, £5.99) and won great acclaim.
His first novel, The Long Sunset, a detective
thriller, is published in November 2002.
When he’s not writing, Nick does voluntary work and
raises funds for the abandoned dog charity
Animal Lifeline. His
other interests include collecting modern first-edition thrillers.
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