About

Nick Bradley was born in Germany in 1982 and grew up in Bath. After graduating with a master’s degree in English literature, he moved to Japan, and lived and worked there for a long time before returning to the UK to attend the Creative Writing MA at UEA.

He has worked in a variety of jobs, including: Japanese teacher, English teacher, video game translator, travel writer, and photographer. He speaks Japanese fluently, and holds a PhD focussing on the figure of the cat in Japanese literature.

The Cat and The City is his first novel. Four Seasons in Japan is his second, and will be published on June 22nd 2023 by Doubleday. His work has been translated into fourteen languages.

He currently teaches on the Creative Writing master’s programme at the University of Cambridge, and the MA in Creative Writing at UEA.