Author of the conspiracy thriller ‘The Shape of Rain’, Nick Hirst has just completed his second novel - 'Second Spider from the Right' - a dystopian geopolitical thriller with a whodunit element. Drawing on sci-fi tropes, it paints a vision of the future where most of the world is under the totalitarian control of the Internation Corporate Council - a part altruistic, part authoritian system of government run by an amalgam of uber international corporations. The narrative weaves multiple technological and political predictions for the next 60 years into the story of a lone pilot stumbling on a global conspiracy. 

Nick Hirst is a former BBC producer and journalist specialising in music and entertainment programming. Prior to this, he had been the first professional TV and radio presenter on Saudi Arabia’s English language TV and radio services. Trained as an actor, he appeared in a number of UK TV series in the ‘80’s and performed in multiple theatre tours covering England, Wales and Scotland.

As a writer, he has contributed over two hundred magazine and internet articles on subjects as wide ranging as music, football and finance and worked on the script for the 2015 documentary film ‘Sugar Blues’ by acclaimed Czech director – Andrea Culkova. With hundreds of radio programmes to his name, he has interviewed some of the biggest names in music around the world for the BBC including Ozzy Osbourne, Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb (The Bee Gees), Paul McCartney, Lemmy, Chris Rea, Marvin Hamlisch, Cher, Fiona Apple, Melissa Etheridge, Susannah Hoffs (The Bangles), Bill Wyman, Nils Lofgren, Lynryd Skynyrd, Megadeth and many more. He now spends his time writing, blogging and providing copywriting and proofreading servcies to English language websites. He also teaches English to a wide variety of students in the Czech Republic where he now resides.