In the beginning, after Christopher had become established as an author of historical fiction, he found that he wanted to escape the genre and try a few new things. It wasn’t Christopher’s intention to play with so many pseudonyms, at least at the start. It might come as an even bigger surprise for readers to learn that the author has written novels under pseudonyms like Robin Nicholson, Christina Nicholson, Andrew York, and Nicholas Grant.Ĭhristopher Nicole has even experimented with female pseudonyms and under these varied names, the author has had the opportunity to work with a myriad of publishing houses, this including Mills & Boon, Simon & Schuster, and Jarrolds to mention but a few. Some people might be surprised to learn that Christopher Nicole has written romance novels. The author’s historical fiction took readers all over the world, to places like Africa and Asia. The times were tumultuous and Christopher Nicole had to live through the First and Second World War, not to mention the Cold War. Writing historical novels came sometime later. Christopher did not try his hand at producing fiction until 1959 where he wrote a story about his home in the Caribbean. The first book the author ever wrote was non-fiction and it was about West Indian Cricket. The author also spent sometime in Barbados at Harrison College. The author, who has Scottish roots, was a student of Queen’s College in Guyana. The author has been publishing novels since 1957.Ĭhristopher Nicole was born in 1930 in Georgetown, Guyana to a police officer by the names of Jack Nicole, and Jean Dorothy. Christopher Nicole is a British Author that has written romance and historical fiction under a surprisingly large number of pseudonyms.

Manu by Christopher Nicole