Bruce Nicholls is the author of “The Plato Prophecy”. An exploration of the rise of China and the breakdown of democracy.
In the autumn of his years, Bruce Nicholls describes himself as a ‘bon vivant’. He loves public speaking and laces his addresses with humour. He honed his writing craft as a diplomat, serving as Trade Commissioner for Australia in India, Germany, Switzerland and China and as Commissioner for Australia in Hong Kong. Later, he joined the boards of several major corporations, was Chairman of the Royal Automobile Club of Australia, President of the Aust-China Chamber of Commerce & Industry, a Trustee of the Committee for Economic Development of Australia and a director of the Goulburn Valley Water and the Port of Melbourne corporations. In addition to native English, he speaks French, Mandarin & Hindi.
His first book, ‘A Briefcase in Transit’, describes his young life in the Foreign Service. Laced with humorous anecdotes and business and political insights, it is essential reading for aspiring diplomats.
When his literary agent suggested he attempt a fiction, Bruce completed two thrillers – ‘Code Sentinel’ – which won the coveted Newspaper House Literary Award, and ‘The Dongfeng Deception’. Both books explore terrorism and espionage, drawing upon real-life geopolitical and military facts to lend credibility and poignancy. At the suggestion of his agent, he is completing a third, ‘The Forbidden Mandate’, to complete a spy trilogy featuring his protagonist, Tom Grant, with great potential for screen adaption. In addition to his fiction, Bruce also writes journalistic non-fiction and contributed his views on Australia’s trade architecture to Professor Bruno Mascitelli’s ‘The Austrade Story’ (Connor Court publishers).
Bruce Nicholls is the author of “The Plato Prophecy”. His latest work and, he says, his most important. Serious, journalistic non-fiction, it is written as an easy narrative, to take the reader on a journey. It warns that we are sleepwalking into disaster, as China reshapes our world and democracy stumbles. Bruce holds that democracy is in deep trouble, as political correctness, political dysfunction, the cancel culture and cyber loud hailing pull its institutions out of shape. As the west cries out for new leadership, China and Russia, he says, continue their relentless progress and are delighted to fill that void.
Bruce Nicholls is the author of “The Plato Prophecy”. An exploration of the rise of China and the breakdown of democracy.
