His third novel, THE SMOKE JUMPER, was published in the autumn of 2001. It coincided with the publication of his second novel, also an international bestseller, THE LOOP. It was made into the biggest Hollywood film of 1998, produced and directed by and starring Robert Redford. Nicholas Evans’ first novel, THE HORSE WHISPERER (Transworld), has sold more than twenty million copies worldwide since its publication in 1995 and has been translated into a total of 36 languages. His credits as a screenwriter and film producer include MURDER BY THE BOOK, starring Peggy Ashcroft and Ian Holm ACT OF BETRAYAL, with Patrick Bergin and Elliott Gould SECRET WEAPON, a TV film about the Israeli atomic atom spy Mordechai Vanunu, with Griffin Dunne and Karen Allen and JUST LIKE A WOMAN, with Julie Walters and Adrian Pasdar. Lean became a friend and mentor, encouraging him to start writing and producing independently of LWT. His next film on director David Lean proved a turning point. By the 1980s he was at London Weekend Television, producing award-winning films on Laurence Olivier, Francis Bacon and David Hockney for The South Bank Show. During the 1970s he cut his teeth as a trainee journalist and then as a TV reporter, specializing in US politics and foreign affairs, most notably covering the war in Beirut.

Nicholas Evans was born in 1950 in Worcestershire, was educated at Bromsgrove School, and then read Law at Oxford.

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