Nick Quantrill was born and raised in Hull, an isolated industrial city in East Yorkshire.After winning the HarperCollins 'Crime Tour' short story competition in 2006, he started to build a readership. Nick completed his first novel 'Broken Dreams.' Focusing on Hull's past and future; the novel looks at the death of the city's fishing industry and explores the problem of how the city can build a new future for itself. Nick's stories are both entertaining and thought provoking, and although the settings may be local to him, the ideas and issues resonate on a much wider basis.Nick has three novels published: Broken Dreams, The Late Greats, and The Crooked Beat.