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Mike Nicholson biography

Mike Nicholson is a children’s author whose books include Catscape, Grimm, The Staff of God and Thistle Street: A Braw Scots Story for Bairns. Thistle Street: A Braw Scots Story for Bairns, illustrated by Claire Keay, is a 32-page children’s book set on a Scottish seaside high street and was published on 1 November 2012.

Thistle Street: A Braw Scots Story for Bairns uses rhyming verse and Scots vocabulary in a story about shops, schoolchildren and local characters on Thistle Street. The book introduces words such as “daunder”, “stramash”, “blether” and “dreich” through a child-friendly street scene.

Nicholson wrote the Museum Mystery Squad mystery series, illustrated by Mike Phillips. The series follows child detectives who investigate strange events in a museum, with titles including Museum Mystery Squad and the Case of the Moving Mammoth, Museum Mystery Squad and the Case of the Hidden Hieroglyphics, Museum Mystery Squad and the Case of the Curious Coins, Museum Mystery Squad and the Case of the Roman Riddle and Museum Mystery Squad and the Case of the Vanishing Viking.

Museum Mystery Squad and the Case of the Hidden Hieroglyphics was published on 15 May 2017 and centres on a coded message connected with the casket of Pharaoh Raneb. Museum Mystery Squad and the Case of the Vanishing Viking was published on 29 January 2019 and follows the disappearance of a large Viking figure after the museum receives a giant longboat exhibit. Museum Mystery Squad and the Case from Outer Space was published on 19 September 2023 and involves a blackmail threat against a new Space Zone exhibit.