Nicholas Rankin

Rankin was born in Yorkshire, England, but grew up in Kenya. His father was born in Glasgow.Rankin, Nicholas (1988), Dead Man's Chest: Travels After Robert Louis Stevenson, Faber and Faber, London, p. 10, {{isbn|9781842122754}} He was educated at Shrewsbury School and Christ Church, Oxford. He has lived and worked in Bolivia and Catalonia, Spain.

He worked for the BBC World Service for 20 years. He was Chief Producer, Arts, at the BBC World Service, when his eight-part series on ecology and evolution, A Green History of the Planet, won two UN awards.[http://www.faber.co.uk/author/nicholas-rankin/ Author page at Faber & Faber website]{{cite web |url = https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/1811/44587/Rankin_11_04_09.pdf?sequence=2|title= Nicholas Rankin|date= 4 November 2009|publisher= Mershon Center for International Security Studies|hdl= 1811/44587|accessdate = 3 December 2013|last1= Rankin|first1= Nicholas}}

He currently works as a freelance writer and broadcaster and lives in London with his wife, the novelist Maggie Gee. He has one daughter, Rosa.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2009.{{cite web|url = http://www.rslit.org/content/fellows|title = Royal Society of Literature All Fellows|publisher = Royal Society of Literature|accessdate = 10 August 2010|url-status = dead|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20100305070326/http://www.rslit.org/content/fellows|archivedate = 5 March 2010}}

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• Dead Man's Chest: Travels after Robert Louis Stevenson. London, Faber and Faber, 1987. {{ISBN|978-0-571-13808-1}}
• Telegram from Guernica: The Extraordinary Life of George Steer, War Correspondent. London: Faber and Faber, 2003. {{ISBN|978-0-571-20563-9}}
• {{cite book |title=Churchill's Wizards: The British Genius for Deception 1914-1945 |year= 2008 |publisher=Faber and Faber |isbn= 978-0-571-22195-0}}
• Ian Fleming's Commandos: The Story of 30 Assault Unit in WWII. London: Faber and Faber, 2011. {{ISBN|978-0-571-25062-2}}
• {{cite book|title=Defending the Rock: How Gibraltar Defeated Hitler|date=2017|publisher=Faber and Faber|location=London|isbn=978-0-571-30770-8}}
• {{cite book|title=Trapped in History: Kenya, Mau Mau and Me|date=2023|publisher=Faber and Faber |location=London |isbn=978-0-571-30774-6}}

;Churchill's Wizards

• Reviewed by Andrew Roberts, [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/non_fictionreviews/3562876/Churchills-Wizards-by-Nicholas-Rankin-review.html "Churchill's Wizards by Nicholas Rankin: review"], in The Sunday Telegraph (5 November 2008)
• Reviewed by Michael Bywater, [https://web.archive.org/web/20090123035644/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/3563319/Churchills-Wizards-the-British-Genius-for-Deception-1914-1945---Nicholas-Rankin.html "Churchill's Wizards: the British Genius for Deception, 1914-1945 - Nicholas Rankin"], in The Daily Telegraph (17 November 2008)
• {{cite journal |author=Foot, M. R. D. |author-link=M. R. D. Foot |date=4 October 2008 |title=Stage effects in earnest |journal=The Spectator |volume=308 |issue=9397 |pages=44 |url=http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/books/2188476/stageeffects-in-earnest.thtml |accessdate=23 December 2008 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081204195635/http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/books/2188476/stageeffects-in-earnest.thtml |archivedate=4 December 2008}}

;Ian Fleming's Commandos

• Reviewed by William Boyd, [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/oct/19/ian-flemings-commandos-nicholas-rankin-review "Ian Fleming's Commandos by Nicholas Rankin – review"], in The Guardian (22 October 2011)

;Telegram from Guernica

• Reviewed by Robert Macfarlane, [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/apr/06/biography.features "Write the good fight"], in The Observer (6 April 2003)
• Reviewed by D. J. Taylor, [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/apr/12/featuresreviews.guardianreview "Their man in Africa"], in The Guardian (12 April 2003)

;Dead Man's Chest: Travels after Robert Louis Stevenson

• a critical assessment is included in Lesley Graham's essay "Questions of Identity on the Stevenson Trail in Scotland", in Brown, Ian and Desmarest, Clarisse Godard (eds.), (2023), Writing Scottishness: Literature and the Shaping of Scottish National Identities, Association for Scottish Literature, Glasgow, pp. 138 - 156, {{isbn|978-1-908980-39-7}}

• Nick Rankin, [http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1721_independence/page8.shtml "Covering arts robustly in the UK"]. BBC
• Audio Slideshow interview with Nick Rankin on [http://www.theinterviewonline.co.uk/library/books/nicholas-rankin-interview.aspx The Interview Online]
• Nick Rankin [https://soundcloud.com/faberbooks/the-faber-podcast-27-part-2 interviewed for the Faber Podcast for Ian Fleming's Commandos], October 2011
• [http://www.vimeo.com/30024966 Short video interview] with Faber and Faber, October 2011
• Q & A interview with Nick Rankin, [https://www.faber.co.uk/blog/undercover-with-nicholas-rankin-ian-flemings-commandos/ discussing Ian Fleming's Commandos] on Faber blog

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