Andrew Nicoll





Andrew Nicoll

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January 04, 1962 in The United Kingdom

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Born in Dundee, Andrew Nicoll has lived all his life within the same few streets by the sea. Once a forester, now a journalist, Nicoll has covered the Scottish Parliament for 'The Sun' for the past ten years. A poet and short story writer before he turned novelist, Nicoll has published numerous stories and poems over the years. His first novel, 'The Good Mayor,' was written during eighteen months of commuting to work by rail. Published by Black & White in the U.K., by Harper Collins in Australia, and by Bantam in the Unites States (September 09), 'The Good Mayor' has been sold to 17 nations and translated into 13 languages. Andrew Nicoll was awarded the Saltire Prize for the First Book of the Year in 2009, and is working to complete a n...more


Average rating: 3.49 · 224 ratings · 67 reviews · 4 distinct works
The Good Mayor
3.45 of 5 stars 3.45 avg rating — 205 ratings — published 2008 — 14 editions
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The Love and Death of Caterina
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions
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3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
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Животът и смъртта на Катерина
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“Love is ordinary, love is dull, love is the natural condition of the human heart, love is the message we carry branded on us from the womb but only the best of us will dare to read it and, even when we dare to read it to people who can never understand, it is still there in us like the rings in a tree or the ridges in a shell, part of us, marking the years and the drought and the growth, even if nobody sees it until the tree is cut down.”
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