David Nicholls is the bestselling author of Sweet Sorrow , Us , The Understudy and Starter for Ten . One Day was published in 2009 to extraordinary critical acclaim. Published in 40 languages, it became a global bestseller, winning the 2010 Galaxy Book of the Year Award. David was named Author of the Year at the 2014 National Book Awards after his fourth novel, Us , was another no. 1 bestseller and was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. On screen, David has written adaptations of Far From the Madding Crowd , When Did You Last See Your Father? and Great Expectations , as well as turning his own novels, Starter for Ten and One Day , into feature films. His adaptation of Edward St. Aubyn's Patrick Melrose , starring Benedict Cumberbatch, was nominated for an Emmy and won him a BAFTA for best writer.

Other works for TV include episodes of Cold Feet , Tess of the D'Urbervilles and two-part love story The 7.39 , and he has also adapted his novel Us as a four part drama for BBC1, starring Tom Hollander and Saskia Reeves.