A journalist and professional author for four decades, Nicholas Rankin has written six non-fiction books published by Faber. They include Telegram from Guernica, the first biography of George Steer, the anti-fascist reporter and friend of Haile Selassie, Churchill’s Wizards, a study of British camouflage and deception, and Ian Fleming’s Commandos, about the writer’s role in naval intelligence. 

Nick worked for twenty years as a broadcaster on the staff of the BBC World Service, where he ended up Chief Producer and won two U.N. awards. He has always enjoyed working in a team – all radio is collaborative – learning from and listening to others while contributing to the shared task. He continues to present BBC radio documentaries freelance, most recently in summer 2022, making his third radio feature about the Lakota Sioux people, now struggling to protect their water and their culture in the Great Plains.

Nick has long been interested in diversity and valued different voices. His new book, Mau Mau & Me, forthcoming in 2023, is a history and a memoir of racial conflict in colonial Kenya.