Wilson Nicholl was born with a banana skin sense of humour and has always been highly amused by comedic farce. Following his retirement from the world of business our author decided to give full rein to his sense of fun and frolic that had been held in check by the professional demands of commerce, for the whole of his executive life. This strange flowering of literary talent was a sort of lammas flush (potentially dangerous at his time of life), but it goes to prove that he and his fellow Grey Generation members who’ve dodged the bullet of the CV19 pandemic still have a switched-on sense of humour.

His literary comedy heroes are the great PG Wodehouse, SJ Perelman of Marx Brothers fame and of course the savage fun and developed farce of more modern-day humourists such as Tom Sharpe. His oeuvre to date exemplifies his love of riffing on situations in which his absurd characters find themselves, exaggerating them wildly to satisfy his great sense of the ridiculous and the joy to be had playing around with the English language.  These books are laugh-out-loud fun because as he points out to anyone who’ll listen, they were written for his amusement and he was laughing when he wrote them.

Wilson has for the whole of his life been politically, racially, religiously and gender non-aligned, he’s a genuine democratic libertarian who believes like his grandfather that ‘every human being has an inalienable right to find his or her own way to heaven or hell whether that be religious or secular.’ So don’t look for deep meaning or intellectual insight from reading one of his books. Understand, these novels are farcical fiction and are not written to be taken seriously or to offend, so relax and enjoy, lighten-up a little and don’t even think about trying to get the ‘taste’ police involved. 

Our author all his life has urged those he met to occasionally take time-out to smell the roses, and he’s consistently given unsolicited advice to young persons about politics and politicians, ‘I say put all politicians on the minimum wage and then watch how fast things change!’

Wilson supports a number of charities and makes sure that profits from these novels go to help the less well-off. He sees his books as adding to the still thankfully cutting-edge wit of his Grey Generation and as being life-affirming to those who have lived long enough to be contemptuous of anyone with snake-oil solutions to the problems of humanity worldwide. 

He urges you to buy his books, they are written in a good cause and his message is unambiguous, ‘Buy copies of my books today and feel the pain of handing your money over. Do it now, it’ll make you feel better about yourself as profits go to help others, plus it’ll give you a laugh at the same time. Now that’s a what I call a bargain!’