Nicolas Rothwell

Nicolas Rothwell was born in New York, and was educated in Switzerland, London and Oxford.

He comes from a long line of Australian journalists, and has worked on newspapers in Sydney, Singapore, London and New York.

He spent the 80s and early 90s as a foreign correspondent for The Australian in the Americas, the Pacific and Western and Eastern Europe, where he covered the revolutionary upheavals that form the backdrop to this book.

Heaven and Earth is his first novel. He is presently at work on a book about the Australian landscape.