Welcome. I’m Nic Smurthwaite, author of the Aldridge series.
My Aldridge series begins with The Heir and Shadows, available now on paperback, hardcover and Kindle.
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About Nic Smurthwaite
Nic Smurthwaite is a novelist whose work explores the hidden intersections of power, history, and conscience. His Aldridge series — beginning with The Heir and Shadows — weaves together espionage, family legacy, and moral intrigue, moving effortlessly between the shadows of war and the complexities of the modern world.
Before turning to writing full-time, Nic spent nearly five decades in the IT industry as a project manager — long enough, he jokes, to qualify as an IT fossil. When he began his career, the computing power now tucked into a smartphone required an entire office floor. That same mix of innovation, adaptability, and quiet persistence finds its way into his fiction.
The Heir and Shadows
When a rare wine bottle appears at a private London club, Lord Richard Aldridge recognises the vineyard name immediately: O’Connell Estate, Margaret River. The image on the label — a young woman in nurse’s uniform — stirs memories he’s kept buried for seventy years. The woman is Maggie O’Connell — the Australian Army nurse he secretly married in wartime France before betrayal tore them apart…