 His journalism has appeared in "The Guardian", "The Independent", "The Daily Mirror", "Time Out", "Sight and Sound", "Rolling Stone", "SFX" and "Locus" among many others.Nicholls has worked for a number of specialists and general book shops including Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed and was the first manager of the London branch of Forbidden Planet.Following on from "Weapons of Magical Destruction, Part Two" in the "Bad Blood" series, "Army of Shadows" was released in October 2009.