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Scott Nelson

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Queenstown, New Zealand

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Science Fiction, Thriller, Contemporary

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Orwell, Fitzgerald, Wilde, Spike Mulligan, Huxley, Arthur C. Clarke.

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Sometime in the early 1990s, Scott Nelson traded a job as a reporter, feature writer and photographer on a New Zealand daily newspaper for a one-way ticket to London - using the city as a base for six years of backpacking around five continents. Along the way, Scott worked as a travel, entertainment and business journalist; a pourer of pints, a tour guide, a salesman and as a live-in carer looking after elderly people with advanced dementia. Nowadays, he lives with his partner and young twins in Nova Scotia, on Canada's east coast. Here, he writes fiction and non-fiction, computer code, and the occasional piece of journalism. The Carer is Scott's third book - and his first novel.

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Average rating: 4.25 · 136 ratings · 28 reviews · 4 distinct works

	The Carer 4.18 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	GRINGOS AND FLAMINGOS : A Fat Bastard’s Guide to Trekking in Northern South America 4.41 avg rating — 27 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Common Sense Ain’t So Common: A handbook for the human condition 4.38 avg rating — 16 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Simple Change: A Sweetbridge Fable by Scott Nelson (Goodreads Author), Tommy Deuschle 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Against A Dark Background

by Iain M. Banks

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Gormenghast (Gormenghast, #2)

by Mervyn Peake

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