Nick Coleman (British writer)

Nick Coleman (born 1960) is a British writer.

Born in Buckinghamshire in 1960, Coleman grew up in Cambridgeshire and has lived[when?] in London since 1982. He is a former music editor of Time Out and an arts and music journalist for The Independent and The Independent on Sunday. In 2010 he wrote The Train in the Night: A Story of Music and Loss, about coming to terms with his own experience five years earlier of hearing loss.[1][2][3][4], published in 2012. It was shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2012.

His other books are the novel, Pillow Man (2015),[5] [6] which was a runner-up for the McKitterick Prize, and Voices: How a Great Singer Can Change Your Life (2018), an exploration of what it means to listen to, and be compelled by, singing.[7]

  1. ^ Adams, Tim (2 February 2012). "The Train in the Night: A Story of Music and Loss by Nick Coleman – review". The Observer. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
  2. ^ Colman, Nick (29 January 2012). "I fought going deaf with a day at the football". The Observer. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
  3. ^ Della-Ragione, Joanna (30 April 2013). "I taught myself to hear music again". Sunday Express. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
  4. ^ The Train in the Night: A Story of Music and Loss. Jonathan Cape, 2012. ISBN 978-0224093576
  5. ^ "inauthor:"Nick Coleman"". Google Books. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
  6. ^ "Nick Coleman". Goodreads. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
  7. ^ "McKitterick Prize". The Society of Authors. 8 May 2020. Retrieved 18 January 2022.