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Nick Marsh

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http://www.goodreads.com/NickMarsh

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male

website

http://www.nick-marsh.co.uk

twitter username

lordof1

genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Humor, Historical Fiction

influences

Douglas Adams, Philip K. Dick, Terry Pratchett, Alan Moore

member since

December 2011

About this author

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Nick was born in the sunny vale of Manchester, in North-West England, back when everyone else was busy wearing flared trousers and purple shirts. He has continued to be out of step with fashion ever since.

Thanks to a certain ‘Mr Herriot’ Nick’s childhood ambition was to become a veterinary surgeon, an ambition that was only strengthened after a soul-scarring week working in the Coronation Street Shop at Granada Studios tour for his school work experience. He still sometimes wakes at night screaming about a shelf full of Vera Duckworth mugs smashing, and to this day the sound of the Beach Boys (which was, for some reason, played in the shop on a 24-hour loop) brings him out in a cold sweat.

Several years later, after five years at Bristol Un...more

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Nick Marsh's Blog

Visiting Hours

Boil a vet's job down into it's very basic components and you're left with three parts; the elementary particles of veterinary life, if you like (incidentally, please don't boil a vet down into their basic components; you'll just end up with a nasty-smelling soup and an unhappy vet). These three fundamentals of the job are 'consults', 'ops' and 'visits'. I've talked about consulting and operati... read more »

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Books by Nick Marsh

Average rating: 3.70 · 10 ratings · 6 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Soul Purpose 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Past Tense 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	The Ancients by Nick Marsh (Goodreads Author), Eric Smith (Illustrator) 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2011	My rating:

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Nick's Writing

The Quantum World (Science Fiction & Fantasy)

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Description: Small excerpt from Past Tense

Nick is Currently Reading

Nick Marsh is currently reading:

A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire #4)

by George R.R. Martin

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May 08, 2012 11:59am

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Nick Marsh wrote a new blog post: Visiting Hours Visiting Hours Boil a vet's job down into it's very basic components and you're left with three parts; the elementary particles of veterinary life, if you like (i... read more »
May 28, 2012 09:04am · like
Nick Marsh is currently reading: A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire #4) by George R.R. Martin	My rating:
May 08, 2012 11:59am
Nick Marsh gave to: Quirkology: How We Discover the Big Truths in Small Things by Richard Wiseman read in May, 2012	My rating:
A fun and interesting read, if not quite as deep as I was expecting (not sure why I was expecting it to be deep, though. There's a clue in the title!)
May 08, 2012 11:58am · see review
Nick Marsh gave to: A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow (A Song of Ice and Fire #3, Part 1 of 2) by George R.R. Martin	My rating:
Very good, although didn't enjoy as much as Game of Thrones. Very slow moving but also very well written.
Mar 25, 2012 01:04pm · see review
Nick Marsh gave to: The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven read in March, 2012	My rating:
I may be being a little unfair, because I listened to this an an audiobook, and the narrator had an irritating voice, but I struggled to enjoy this 'epic story' - the science was solid, but the navy characters, especially the hero, did not behave in...more
Mar 25, 2012 10:19am · see review
Nick Marsh gave to: The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes #5) by Arthur Conan Doyle read in February, 2012	My rating:
Mar 05, 2012 06:24am
Nick Marsh is on page 150 of 256 of The Hound of the Baskervilles The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes #5) by Arthur Conan Doyle progress:	My rating:
Feb 26, 2012 03:32am · like · see status
Nick Marsh gave to: The Devil on the Road by Robert Westall	My rating:
I read this book as a growing lad, and then again last year as an adult, and loved it even more. There is a sense of magic and nostalgia that hits me very powerfully with this time-travelling tale of love and persecution,and it's a shame that it's on...more
Feb 18, 2012 11:35am · see review
Nick Marsh gave to: The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos by Brian Greene	My rating:
Feb 14, 2012 02:09pm
Nick Marsh gave to: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch	My rating:
Amazing, thought provoking and brilliantly written (if very hard to read) discussion of the Rwandan genocide in 1994
Feb 14, 2012 02:07pm · see review