The bestselling Zigzag Street was Nick Earls’ first novel for adults. It won a Betty Trask Award in the UK in 1998, and is currently being developed into a feature film.
His other books include the novels Bachelor Kisses and Perfect Skin, the bestselling short story collection Headgames, and the successful young-adult novels After January and 48 Shades of Brown.
His work has been published internationally in English and in translation, which led to him being a finalist in the Premier of Queensland’s Awards for Export Achievement in 1999. Bachelor Kisses was one of Who Weekly’s Books of the Year in 1998.
Nick Earls has an honours degree in Medicine from the University of Queensland, and lives in Brisbane. London’s Mirror newspaper has called him ‘the first Aussie to make me laugh out loud since Jason Donovan’.