Contributions

Ladies Night in the Underwood Pet Hospital (Girls’ Night In 4)

Editor (Kids’ Night In, Kids’ Night In 2)

Biography

Nick Earls was a contributor/editor for Big Night OutGirls’ Night In 10th Anniversary Edition and Girls’ Night In 4, as well as contributing to the very first book in the Kids Night In collection and the most recently published, Funny Bones (2019).

Nick Earls has provided this podcast version of his story ‘Cabin Baggage’, from the third book in the Girls’ Night In series, Big Night Out, for all to enjoy, generously donating his fee to War Child.

Nick Earls is the author of twenty books, including bestselling novels Zigzag Street, Bachelor Kisses and Perfect Skin. His work has been published internationally in English and in translation. Zigzag Street won a Betty Trask Award in the UK in 1998, and Perfect Skin was the only novel nominated for an Australian Comedy Award in 2003. 48 Shades of Brown was awarded Book of the Year (older readers) by the Children’s Book Council of Australia in 2000, and in the US it was a Kirkus Reviews selection in its books of the year for 2004.

48 Shades of Brown and Perfect Skin have been adapted into feature films, with Solo un Padre, the film adapted from the Italian edition of Perfect Skin, a top-ten box office hit in Italy in 2008. After January, 48 Shades of Brown, Zigzag Street and Perfect Skin have all been successfully adapted for theatre, and the Zigzag Street play toured nationally in 2005. The True Story Of Butterfish was also performed as a play.

Most recently, his five loosely connected Wisdom Tree novellas, Gotham, Venice, Vancouver, Juneau and NoHo have been described as “triumphant and extraordinary”.

Credit: Nick Earls biography information was sourced from Booktopia

Contributions

Ladies Night in the Underwood Pet Hospital (Girls’ Night In 4)

Editor (Kids’ Night In, Kids’ Night In 2)

Biography

Nick Earls was a contributor/editor for Big Night OutGirls’ Night In 10th Anniversary Edition and Girls’ Night In 4, as well as contributing to the very first book in the Kids Night In collection and the most recently published, Funny Bones (2019).

Nick Earls has provided this podcast version of his story ‘Cabin Baggage’, from the third book in the Girls’ Night In series, Big Night Out, for all to enjoy, generously donating his fee to War Child.

Nick Earls is the author of twenty books, including bestselling novels Zigzag Street, Bachelor Kisses and Perfect Skin. His work has been published internationally in English and in translation. Zigzag Street won a Betty Trask Award in the UK in 1998, and Perfect Skin was the only novel nominated for an Australian Comedy Award in 2003. 48 Shades of Brown was awarded Book of the Year (older readers) by the Children’s Book Council of Australia in 2000, and in the US it was a Kirkus Reviews selection in its books of the year for 2004.

48 Shades of Brown and Perfect Skin have been adapted into feature films, with Solo un Padre, the film adapted from the Italian edition of Perfect Skin, a top-ten box office hit in Italy in 2008. After January, 48 Shades of Brown, Zigzag Street and Perfect Skin have all been successfully adapted for theatre, and the Zigzag Street play toured nationally in 2005. The True Story Of Butterfish was also performed as a play.

Most recently, his five loosely connected Wisdom Tree novellas, Gotham, Venice, Vancouver, Juneau and NoHo have been described as “triumphant and extraordinary”.

Credit: Nick Earls biography information was sourced from Booktopia