Giving up an early dream to be a poet/songwriter, crafting fiction soon took over, and with over a decade of international work and travel to build on (as well as a relocation to Australia from the UK when he was seventeen), Nicholas’ early writing tended toward the mysteries of magic realism, shifting in recent years to a more open form of observational fiction with noticeable elements of Australiana. The writers who have influenced his work range from Graham Green and F. Scott Fitzgerald, to Robert Drewe and Umberto Eco, yet overall the strongest influence remains the music that inspires him to write.
N. J. Greenfield 