Nicholas Searle
Nicholas Searle grew up in Cornwall and studied languages at the universities of Bath and Göttingen. After teaching for four years he moved to London to join the Civil Service. He had a hugely enjoyable twenty-three years in a variety of jobs dealing with security matters before going to work in...
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Nicholas Searle grew up in Cornwall and studied languages at the universities of Bath and Göttingen. After teaching for four years he moved to London to join the Civil Service. He had a hugely enjoyable twenty-three years in a variety of jobs dealing with security matters before going to work in a similar capacity for the New Zealand government in Wellington. In 2011 he returned to the UK, left the Civil Service and began writing in earnest. Nicholas and his wife live in Yorkshire.
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Nicholas Searle's Books
Roy has a history of duping people out of their money. He’s now in his eighties, and has set himself up with Betty, a rather gullible but affluent elderly woman. He just wants to be taken care of. But inwardly, he wants one more big fling; one more big con. Betty’s grandson, Stephen, doesn’t lik...
Loved The Good Liar. A clever and winding tale looked at all the wrong way round and upside down but so brilliantly addictive with a dry yet compelling style.We start with Roy meeting Betty for the first time on a "blind" date. I was immediately hooked due to the way this was presented by the author...
bookshelves: autumn-2015, e-book, net-galley, picaresque, published-2016, betrayal, bullies, casual-violence, corruption, eye-scorcher, families, fascism, filthy-lucre, games-people-play, gulp, holocaust-genocide, jewish, life-is-cheap-around-here, lifestyles-deathstyles, look-behind-you, misanthro...
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