Nikki Allen

Agent: Kate Burke
Assistant: Sian Ellis-Martin

Nikki Allen wrote her first book aged five – sadly, THE ADVENTURES OF SILLY SUSIE SAUSAGE didn’t get picked up for publication – and has been writing ever since. After studying languages at UCL, she decided the best way to write for a living was to become a local news journalist and copywriter. But in her thirties, the call of creative writing got too loud to ignore and she tried her hand at a novel.

Nikki is also a qualified therapist, and her endless fascination with people and their stories inspires much of her writing. She was born in Holland, grew up the only Jewish kid in her Worcestershire village, and now lives in North London with her husband, two young children and a rather overweight cat called Tiny.

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THE HIDEAWAY
Thriller, 336 pages, Pan Macmillan, July 2025

When five strangers are chosen for an all-expenses-paid stay an exclusive retreat, they leap at the chance to rest and get away from it all amidst the lush Costa Rican rainforest.

Their famous host is nowhere to be seen when they arrive. Confused, but eager to immerse themselves in this once-in-a-lifetime experience, they head into the wilderness in search of a rejuvenating waterfall – but when calamity strikes, panic sets in and they are plunged into a battle for survival.

Lost under the dense canopies with darkness closing in, they soon realise they cannot trust the beauty of their surroundings – or each other…