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  • Bibliography:
    4 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1966
  • Latest Book:
    January 1973
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About the Author

Christopher Robin Nicole was born on 7 December 1930 in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana), where he was raised. He is the son of Jean Dorothy (Logan) and Jack Nicole, a police officer, both Scottish. He studied at Queen's College in Guyana and at Harrison College in Barbados. He was a fellow at the Canadian Bankers Association and a clerk for the Royal Bank of Canada in Georgetown and Nassau from 1947 to 1956. In 1957, he moved to Guernsey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom, where he currently lives, but he also has a domicile in Spain. On 31 March 1951, he married his first wife, Jean Regina Amelia Barnett, with whom he had two sons, Bruce and Jack, and two daughters, Julie and Ursula, they divorced. On 8 May 1982 he married for the second time with fellow writer Diana Bachmann.

As a romantic and passionate of history, Nicole has been published since 1957, when he published a book about West Indian Cricket. He published his first novel in 1959 with his first stories set in his native Caribbean. Later he wrote many historical novels set mostly in tumultuous periods like World War I, World War II and the Cold War, and depict places in Europe, Asia and Africa. He also wrote classic romance novels. He specialized in Series and Sagas, and continues to write into the 21st century with no intention of retiring. He signs his books as Christopher Nicole and uses several pseudonyms, some of them female. Pseudonyms used include: Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C.R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He wrote disaster thrillers in collaboration with his wife, Diana Bachmann, under the penname Max Marlow. Under his different pseudonyms he has worked with many publishing houses: Jarrolds, Hutchinson, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, Jove, Michael Joseph, Mills & Boon, and Severn House.

Book List in Order: 4 titles



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    King Creole - conceited and confident, bombastic and belligerent, he used master and mistress alike to launch himself upon a career as the most scandalous figure in Jamaica....




  • On an August morning in 1697, Guernsey fisherman Helier l'Eree rescued a woman the waters of the English Channel. Helier was strong, young and innocent, and he set to work to revive her. The woman, young and beautiful, was not at all innocent. She re...





Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Peter Grange has published 4 books.

Peter Grange does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Golden Goddess, was published in January 1973.

The first book by Peter Grange, King Creole, was published in January 1966.

No. Peter Grange does not write books in series.