bouquiniste presents David Nicholls - International best selling author and award winning screen writer

Join Bouqiniste in welcoming, British author, David Nicholls to Kiama for his first Australian tour, and his only event outside of a major city.

David will be in conversation with Clayton Zane and special guest Edwina Batholomew to discuss his latest novel Sweet Sorrow and his previous bestselling novels, One Day, Us, Starter for Ten and The Understudy.

Event Details
Doors Open: 2.30pm
Interview: 3pm
Book Signing: Post Interview

About David

David Nicholls is the international bestselling author of Us, One Day, The Understudy and Starter for Ten. His novels have sold over eight million copies worldwide and are published in forty languages.
His bestselling first novel, Starter for Ten, was selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club in 2004, and in 2006 David went on to write the screenplay of the film version, which starred James McAvoy.
His third novel, One Day, was published in 2009 to extraordinary critical acclaim, and stayed in the Sunday Times top ten bestseller list for ten weeks on publication. One Day won the 2010 Galaxy Book of the Year Award. David also wrote the screenplay for the film, which starred Anne Hathaway.
David’s fourth novel, Us, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2014 and was another no. 1 Sunday Times bestseller. In the same year he was named Author of the Year at the National Book Awards.
David also recently won a BAFTA Award and was nominated for an Emmy Award for Patrick Melrose, his adaptation of the novels by Edward St Aubyn, starring Benedict Cumberbatch.

His latest novel, Sweet Sorrow, released July 2019, is receiving rave reviews.

Sweet Sorrow Reviews
‘That most rare and coveted of literary feats: a popular novel of serious merit, a bestseller that will also endure.’
– Observer

‘Triumph … the sense of nostalgia is visceral and intense, almost time-bending.’
– The Sunday Times

‘Does any writer do nostalgia quite like David Nicholls? His bestseller One Day was partly so adored for the way he captured the feeling of being young, being in love, and being confused. He returns to similarly fertile territory on Sweet Sorrow, only stepping back into teenage years, the writing an ideal blend of the gently humorous and utterly heartfelt. It made me feel like something had swollen up inside my chest, and readers are liable to find their thoughts drifting over their own misspent school holidays or crushingly ardent first loves.’
– Holly Williams, The Independent, UK