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Jonathan Nicholas

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The United Kingdom

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Crime, Memoir, Nonfiction

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Dirk Bogarde, George Orwell

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Jonathan Nicholas was born in Norfolk, England and grew up in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. At the age of eighteen he left the UK and travelled the world with nothing more than a back pack, a sketchpad, and a diary, returning to the UK several years later, much thinner but with a stack of completed diaries. He then spent the next thirty years working as a police officer, almost always in uniform and on the 'front line' in some very challenging areas of inner-city England. An avid diary writer, in 2011 he turned his attentions to professional writing, and for a while he wrote a regular column in the UK police magazine 'Police Review'. Jonathan was commended several times during his police career including being awarded Community Police Officer
Jonathan Nicholas was born in Norfolk, England and grew up in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. At the age of eighteen he left the UK and travelled the world with nothing more than a back pack, a sketchpad, and a diary, returning to the UK several years later, much thinner but with a stack of completed diaries. He then spent the next thirty years working as a police officer, almost always in uniform and on the 'front line' in some very challenging areas of inner-city England. An avid diary writer, in 2011 he turned his attentions to professional writing, and for a while he wrote a regular column in the UK police magazine 'Police Review'. Jonathan was commended several times during his police career including being awarded Community Police Officer of the Year in 2007.
His first book, 'Hospital Beat' describes in honest detail his ten years spent policing a busy inner-city hospital. Sadly some parts of the book were deemed 'personally unacceptable' to a minority of influential persons within Nottinghamshire Police who then effectively caused it to be banned worldwide until Jonathan left the police when he retired in February 2014.
His second book, 'Kibbutz Virgin' is now widely acknowledged to be one of the best factual accounts yet written about the Israeli kibbutz volunteer experience, and is based in the troubled border region of Israel, Lebanon and Syria. It provides an insight into why 400,000 non-Jews from around the world worked in Israel for no pay.
'The Tragic Romance of Africa' is a harrowing true tale of 1950s colonial Africa, and is Jonathan's first book ghost written for another.
His book 'Oz - A Hitchhiker's Australian Anthology' details a very unusual twelve months he spent hitchhiking around Australia, and it proves you really can cross a continent on as little as twenty dollars!
‘Who'd be a Copper?' is a factual account of Jonathan’s thirty years as a police constable in uniform, providing candid & surprising details of British inner-city policing.
‘Cherry Picking’ is Jonathan’s second outing as a ghost writer, for goal keeper Steve Cherry, who played for various top U.K. soccer teams.
Jonathan has written a dark dystopian thriller in the pen name of Dan Hastings; ‘Active’ explores what might happen to the West if overrun by violent religious fanatics.
His latest work is a fact-based historical novel about a real-life RAF pilot in North Africa during WW2; ‘Kittyhawk Down’ follows Sgt Dennis Copping as he joins up until he disappears into the desert, where his aeroplane was later found in 2012.
Jonathan is currently working on another historical novel about a real pilot in WW2; ‘Vermisst’ is about Luftwaffe fighter pilot Paul Ratz whose aeroplane was found in Russian woodland in 1989.
Please see the website for further details and to read excerpts from all Jonathan's books.
Jonathan has had a lifelong interest in aviation and obtained a glider pilot's licence and a private pilot's licence in 1978. He is now a full-time author and currently lives in Nottingham, England. He is married with two children.

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	Hospital Beat – A Police Officer’s stories from inside a busy British hospital 3.68 avg rating — 411 ratings — published 2011 — 3 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
	Who'd be a copper?: Thirty years a frontline British cop 4.01 avg rating — 288 ratings — published 2015	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
	Kittyhawk Down: Dennis Copping & ET574 4.27 avg rating — 101 ratings — 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
	Kibbutz Virgin: A British Teenager's Account of Six Months Living on a Kibbutz in Israel 4.12 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2012 — 4 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
	Who'd be a copper? 4.05 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2015	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
	Oz – A Hitchhiker's Australian Anthology 3.75 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2014	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
	Vermisst: Missing in Russia 4.22 avg rating — 9 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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	Portland by Jonathan Nicholas (1990-09-03) 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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Are you writing a crime thriller? Does it involve British cops? I've read a lot of thrillers and seen a lot of TV & films about policing in the UK and cringed when I see how unrealistic some of them are. Do you know the biggest problems the British police are currently facing? Yes, the biggest is funding cuts, but another is political correctness; it prevents the police enforcing the law fully due Read more of this blog post »

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Jonathan’s Quotes

“There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

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“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

tags: atheism, philosophy

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“On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”
― George Orwell, All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays

tags: goodness, human-nature, humour, philosophy

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“From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.”
― Denis Diderot, Essai sur le mérite et la vertu

tags: barbarism, fanaticism

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“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings

tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world

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message 4: by Jonathan

May 13, 2013 08:31AM

Dustin wrote: "Howdy thar Jonathan!
This here Texas cowboy appreciates the friendship.
Thank ya mighty kindly.

Yer new friend,
Dustin Adrian Rhodes"

Hi there! Check out my website at:
www.jonathannicholas.org.uk

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message 3: by Jonathan

May 13, 2013 08:29AM

Michael wrote: "Hi Jonathan,
Thank you for being my friend on GOODREADS. Are you located in the United Kingdom?

I would be interested in reading some of your work.

Best regards,
Mike Phelps"

Michael wrote: "Hi Jonathan,
Thank you for being my friend on GOODREADS. Are you located in the United Kingdom?

I would be interested in reading some of your work.

Best regards,
Mike Phelps"

Mike
Yes I live in Robin Hood Country, Nottingham. I'm thrilled you want to see my work: www.jonathannicholas.org.uk. Best regards JN

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message 2: by Michael

May 12, 2013 07:22AM

Hi Jonathan,
Thank you for being my friend on GOODREADS. Are you located in the United Kingdom?

I would be interested in reading some of your work.

Best regards,
Mike Phelps

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message 1: by Peter

May 12, 2013 04:44AM