A Measure of Danger: Memoirs of a British War Correspondent
Best introduction to Nicholson's career and writing as a war correspondent.
Author guide
Michael Nicholson Books in Order
Michael Thomas Nicholson was an English journalist and ITN senior foreign correspondent who reported from eighteen major conflicts, including Biafra, Vietnam, the Falklands, Bosnia, and Iraq. He wrote thrillers, historical fiction, travel writing, memoir, and nonfiction about war reporting. His account of adopting a Bosnian orphan was published as Natasha's Story and later adapted into the film Welcome to Sarajevo.
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Dark Rosaleen: A Famine Novel
A standalone historical novel showing his later fiction.
Outside the series
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Novels (6)
- The Partridge Kite
novel · 1978
- Red Joker
novel · 1980
- December Ultimatum
novel · 1983
- Pilgrims Rest
novel · 1987
- A State of War Exists: Reporters in the Line of Fire
nonfiction · 2012
- Dark Rosaleen: A Famine Novel
historical novel · 2015
"Love, death, and politics in a time of great famine and hardship in Ireland. This is a novel based on the true story of the Great Famine in Ireland of 1840s. Historically accurate, it is a story of murder and betrayal, of a failed…
Nonfiction (3)
- Across the Limpopo: A Family's Hazardous 4,000-Mile Journey Through Africa
travel memoir · 1985
- Natasha's Story
memoir · 1993