Claire Nicholls
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2,363 appearances
20 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2020
last heard 13 Sep
Claire Nicholls’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Book Show · Mick Herron and the losers, misfits and boozers of Slow Horses · 19 Jul 2026
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Because you'd already been writing crime fiction at this point.
So what inspired the shift to this world?
And no one's going to write you a letter because they're keeping their secrets, right?
Guess the other thing with the mi5 is that when a spy agency is doing its job?
Well We know nothing about that, right?
It's only when things go wrong that we know anything about a spy agency Absolutely.
I think the inspired idea behind the Slower House series, though, that these spies are not the cream of the crop.
These are the losers of this world.
How did that come to you?
And unlike Le Carre, who had experience in intelligence and maybe could write about stuff that was real, you've told us you're making that up.
But what you do have experience in is working in an office.
So tell me why Slow Horses is more of an office drama than a spy story.
And just to be clear, you were not a lawyer?
The other thing about working in the law firm is you were learning about how hard it is to fire people.
in the public sector.
I want to talk about the TV adaptation, but before that, I think we should really talk about the kind of unlikely story to success that you had with that first book, Slow Horses, because there is a world, there is a timeline where that book kind of could have vanished with a bit of a whimper, right?
It is the most incredible story.
And then how soon did the TV adaptation then come?
How soon were people knocking on your door for that?
And you're in the writing room for the Slow Horses TV series?
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