All Jonathan's books can be obtained directly from the publishers: books@troubador.co.uk, or from Waterstones, Foyles, Amazon, & many other retailers.

'Vermisst - Missing in Russia' is the story of German Paul Goetz and his love of aeroplanes and flying, leading him to join the air force in 1939. His first combat posting is The Leningrad Front, December 1941. It's minus 45 degrees, dark most of the time, and they all dread being captured. His nightmare comes true when on a hot July day in 1943 his engine fails behind the lines and he is captured.

Along with a Facebook Page for 'Kittyhawk Down' there is also a Facebook Page for 'Vermisst - Missing in Russia', where you can see the places, people and aeroplanes mentioned in the novel.

 

 

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Below: Kittyhawk Down

The Tragic Romance of Africa:

Dennis Hubbard was a naive 21 year old when he arrived at a small mining town called Broken Hill in tropical Northern Rhodesia, where he spent the next two years. They were to become the greatest and most formative of his life. Together with his best friend Fred, he became involved in expeditions deep into the African bush, first on pedal cycles and then in a 1946 Flying Standard motor car. They paddled a kayak on the lake adjacent to Mulungushi Dam, where they had first-hand encounters with the dangerous native wildlife - such as crocodiles and hippos - and many other near altercations with elephants, buffalo and baboons. Dennis and Fred were recruited to the local Police Reserve and Dennis was shocked to see the segregation and discrimination that existed at the time. He befriended some local Africans, contrary to firm advice from many other white people in Broken Hill.
Eventually, Dennis became truly absorbed into the colonial way of life just as the sun was setting on the British Empire. He used his rifle several times and became very familiar with the seemingly endless and beautiful savannah lands that surrounded Broken Hill. Towards the end of his stay in Africa, there was a heated romance with great tragedy in store for both Dennis and Fred, the horrendous circumstances of which will have the reader asking whether this is really a true story - unfortunately, it certainly is. Dennis was initially reluctant to share his story, and has so far kept this desperately tragic end of his stay in Africa a deep, dark secret...Until now.
The Tragic Romance of Africa is a compelling combination of travel writing and memoir that also gives a unique and rare insight into a snapshot of Africa's history. It's a book that at times reads like a novel due to its hard-to-believe content, and an account that is often hilarious, occasionally touching, sometimes moving but ultimately harrowing, set in a bygone age of colonialism, racism, exploitation and adventure.

Kibbutz Virgin

אולי אני צריך לפחות כמות קטנה של עברית בדף זה, כשם שישראל הייתה חלק

כה גדול ורב השפעה של החיים שלי. אם אתה קורא את זה אני מקווה שיהיה

מסוגל לקרוא את הספר שלי 'קיבוץ בתולה ", למרות שזה באנגלית! זה יהיה טוב

בשביל שתדעו עד כמה אני מעריך את הזמן שביליתי במדינה נפלאה הזאת!

חשבון אישי מאוד, עמוק כנים, לעתים מזעזע ומשעשע אמיתי של זמנו של נער

בריטי בילה חיים ועובד בקיבוץ בצפון ארץ.

A highly personal, deeply honest, often shocking and amusing true account of a British teenager's time spent living and working on a kibbutz in the border area of northern Israel. Life in the Upper Galilee while coping with frequent air raids, parties, and misadventures.

Published in 2012.

BUY KIBBUTZ VIRGIN - CLICK ON THE LINK TO AMAZON:

Kindle version:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jonathan-Nicholas/e/B007VXK9DC?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1662981729&sr=8-1

Hospital Beat

Fact-based stories from a police officer working inside a busy inner-city hospital.Cases of theft by medical professionals including doctors, nurses and security staff.

Published in 2011 & the subject of disciplinary proceedings due to the author still being a serving police officer.

Drawing on evidence from prosecution files, hospital staff and police officers this is a revealing, sometimes amusing and often shocking insight into what really happens behind the scenes in a very busy hospital.

*** THIS BOOK WAS UNAVAILABLE TO THE BRITISH PUBLIC BETWEEN OCT 20 2012 AND FEB 20 2014 ON THE INSTRUCTIONS OF A UK POLICE FORCE DUE TO SOME OF THE CONTENT ***

The thirteen passages of the book which caused it to be BANNED BY THE POLICE for fifteen months:

1. From the chapter 'EAU', where I wrote a description of a nurse's legs, commenting in the book how nice I thought they were. I was told: 'We don't want the public to think serving police officers have such thoughts.'

2. From the chapter 'Bobby', where I describe in my own private thoughts a particular recidivist criminal as 'a scruffy, thieving, pernicious little bastard'. Cops are apparently not allowed to think such things.

3. The same chapter, where I went on to describe the same thieving bastard as 'a cockroach'.
4. Also the same chapter describing levels of acceptable dishonesty amongst the public. Clearly no dishonesty is permitted!
5. The chapter 'Coffee' where I disposed of a suspect device without calling the bomb squad, and risked blowing myself up. A clear breach of protocol!
6. The chapter 'logistics' where the words 'cunt' and 'twat' are used privately between myself and a colleague. 'We don't want the public to think police officers use that kind of language' they told me.
7. The chapter 'Jimmy' where I describe a violent criminal as a 'thin and scruffy bastard'.

8. The same chapter where I shouted at a violent criminal in the back of a police van after he'd been threatening doctors and nurses.
9. The chapter 'Race'. They didn't like this chapter. You'll have to read it.
10. The chapter 'Maternity', where I describe the great British underclass having babies.
11. The same chapter when describing a female criminal whose every other word she said was 'fuck'.
12. The same chapter when I charged a pregant criminal while she was actually giving birth.
13. The chapter 'Lies' where I describe a colleague perving at nurses.

Amazon links to buy Hospital Beat:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jonathan-Nicholas/e/B007VXK9DC?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1662981729&sr=8-1

Oz - A Hitchhiker's

Australian Anthology

An astonishing true adventure, a hitchhiker's

twelve month journey around Australia.

Published in 2014

Amazon link:

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jonathan-Nicholas/e/B007VXK9DC?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1662981729&sr=8-1

Published in 2015

A true account of thirty years on the front line in Britian's police, as seen from ground level, a uniform constable's point of view. Written without the shackles of political correctness, you may be

shocked and surprised to find out what's really going on in Britain's police service.

Amazon UK link:

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jonathan-Nicholas/e/B007VXK9DC?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1662981729&sr=8-1

Bulled boots, tunic, Burndept radio, truncheon down the right trouser leg. On foot patrol in Nottingham in 1986

Three decades later: the boots are similar, but little else is. CS gas, rigid steel cuffs, collapsible steel baton, bullet proof vest, and double encrypted digital radio. Foot patrol, summer 2013 in Nottingham (Ashwell Gardens/Bobbersmill Road junction, Hyson Green).

'Cherry Picking - Life between the Sticks' The life of goalkeeper Steve Cherry. Published Feb 2019.