The Last Thing the Author Said: Writing by Nick Sweeney
  • First Thing
  • A Blue Coast Mystery, Almost Solved
  • Out in 2021
  • Interview, June 2020
  • Out in 2020
  • Out in 2019
  • The Exploding Elephant
  • Out in 2018
  • Out in Autumn - Winter 2017
  • Published in 2017
  • Laikonik Express
    • Laikonik Express on Kindle
    • Laikonik Express: cultural baggage
    • Reviews of Lakonik Express
    • Laikonik Express - origins
    • Laikonik Express film
    • Laikonik Express on Resonance FM - soundscapes with Johny Brown and the Band of Holy Joy
  • Short stories and tall tales
    • The Boy at the Bus Stop
    • End-User of Ordinance
    • Fast in the Life Lane
    • Wojtek and the Commissar
    • Wheel
  • Published in 2013
  • Out in 2014
    • Man Seeks Dog
    • Andabatae
    • The Place of the Dead
  • Out in 2015/2016
  • My works-in-progress
    • A gothic American tale
    • Angelika and the Forgers
    • Cleopatra's Script
  • Last Thing Blog

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In North London, 2017


I'm a writer of fiction, mainly, and have published short stories, many of them finding a home in Ambit magazine. I also write novels, and my first one was published in April 2011 by Unthank Books. It's called Laikonik Express, and follows two American slackers on a haunted jaunt around Poland in search of a woman one of them has met. The Laikonik Express is the name of the train taking them on their way, which runs from Krakow in the south, to Gdynia in the north, on the Baltic Sea.

In the summer of 2018, I had my second-longest piece of work, The Exploding Elephant, published by Bards and Sages under its Society of Misfits outlet. Also set in Poland, this time in Gliwice, the town where I lived in 1993, it's a piece of speculative fiction centring on a young opportunist whose bad choices are gradually coming home to him. At around 20000 words, it's a 'novelette' - a bit shorter than a novella. 

​My novella A Blue Coast Mystery, Almost Solved will be out in October 2020 with Addison and Highsmith, an imprint of Histria Books. It's set in London in the 1970s and on the French Riviera in the 1960s, among an expatriate community that often remains unseen, and is partly a story about peple from places that no longer exist. You can see more about it here. There is a pre-order link here.

I'll be posting some of my writing here, some of it published, some of it unpublishable, maybe, and some of it just works-in-progress, and will welcome comments, criticism, creative derision and crisps.

Be in touch - it's good to talk, apparently. Find me on Facebook, which is a either a complete waste of time or just a partial one. I can also be tweeted @nikone3na though I've not been partaking in Twitter very much recently. That's the same as my often neglected Instagram handle.



When I nearly became one side of a Bacon sandwich:
from my friend and mentor Geoff Nicholson's (2016) The London Complaint

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