Nick Gadd Nick Gadd i(A82475 works by)
Born: Established: 1964
c
United Kingdom (UK),
c
Western Europe, Europe,
;
Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 1990
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

BiographyHistory

Nick Gadd grew up in Yorkshire and has lived and worked in Melbourne. He has published essays and reviews and worked in adult education and the arts. He worked in Italy from 1988 to 1990 when he migrated to Australia.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Death of a Typographer Melbourne : Arcadia , 2019 17393237 2019 single work novel

'MARTIN KERN has a special sensitivity to fonts, a skill that he uses to solve typographical crimes. When a local printer is found dead in his workshop, his body in the shape of an X, Martin and his co-investigator, journalist Lucy Tan, are drawn into a mystery that is stranger than anything they have encountered before. Someone is leaving typographical clues at the scenes of a series of murders.

'All the trails lead back to Pieter van Floogstraten, a Dutch design genius who disappeared without trace in the 1970s, and who has since been engaged in a mystical scheme to create the world’s most perfect font, which is concealed in locations around the globe. But is he really the killer, and how are the crimes connected to his secret font? In solving the mystery, Martin and Lucy may have to expose Martin’s hero as a psychopath.

'The main plot of the novel unfolds in Melbourne, while interleaved chapters set variously in a Tibetan monastery, on the plains of Peru, in London, Naples and Amsterdam, gradually reveal the story of Floogstraten in flashback. Other characters include a noir-style private font investigator, a typographical monk from the Renaissance, a Dutch prog rock group named I Am A Dolphin, and a collective of Italian typo-terrorists.

'This novel takes the reader into the arcane world of typographers and their typefaces, of symbols, swashes and glyphs, where the difference between a serif and sans serif could mean life and death.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2020 shortlisted Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing Best Novel
2020 joint winner APA Book Design Awards Best Designed Literary Fiction / Poetry Cover  designed by Stephen Banham 
y separately published work icon Ghostlines The Ghostwriter Carlton North : Scribe , 2008 Z1515939 2008 single work novel crime thriller 'Philip Trudeau, a once-respected investigative journalist, has stepped on the wrong toes. With his personal life and health deteriorating around him, he is consigned to a suburban newspaper where he writes "filler" local news articles to be slotted in among the real-estate and restaurant advertisements. Sent to cover what appears to be a tragic-yet-routine death at a level crossing, Philip is drawn into a multilayered mystery that involves art theft, political intrigue and business corruption ... not to mention murder.' (Publisher's blurb)
2009 winner Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing Best First Novel
2008 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction Horror Division Best Novel
2007 winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer Manuscript titled 'The Ghostwriter' at the time of award announcement.
Last amended 9 Oct 2015 09:24:41
Other mentions of "" in AustLit:
    X