About Nick Snelling
Author – Journalist – Realtor
Nick Snelling is a journalist and author of six books, three of which focus on Spain. He lives permanently in Spain with his family and combines his writing career with running Casalasafor Consultancies, a real estate agency specialising in properties around Gandia.
Of his six books, four are non-fiction. These include How to Buy Spanish Property and Move to Spain – Safely! and The Laptop Entrepreneur. He has also written the accompanying text for several books by one of the world’s leading documentary photographers, Jurgen Schadeberg.
Nick’s investigative journalism has explored a wide range of complex and often controversial subjects related to Spain. His work has examined corruption, the economy, divorce and domestic violence, drug culture, the Spanish property crash, immigration, and the country’s culture of brothel use. He has also written an in-depth profile of a high-class call girl.
He has been a columnist for A Place in the Sun magazine and has appeared as an expert contributor on programmes for the BBC (Radio 4 and BBC One), ITV, and Channel 4, including A Place in the Sun.
Nick has also featured on numerous episodes of House Hunters International for US television, discussing Spain and Spanish property. His media work extends to co-presenting a television programme for a Spanish TV channel, providing voice-over narration for documentaries, and working as a fixer for a major television production company.
In addition to his journalistic work, Nick is involved in international humanitarian missions and has worked in Afghanistan, Ukraine, and Jordan/Gaza.
Independent author Nic Ronaldsen is emerging as one of the most compelling new voices in contemporary literary fiction. Their debut novel, Restitution, published by Cut Glass Publishing, explores truth, memory, and the quiet pursuit of redemption with rare emotional precision. Blending psychological depth and elegant prose, Ronaldsen brings readers a story that lingers long after the final page.
This debut marks the beginning of a powerful journey that will continue through an upcoming series now in development. Each book promises to expand Ronaldsen’s exploration of how honesty, forgiveness, and self-understanding shape the human experience.
For those who believe that fiction should both move and challenge its readers, Nic Ronaldsen is a name to remember.
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On the second day of January 1492, Boabdil, the last Moorish ruler in Spain, reluctantly handed over the keys of Granada and the beautiful Alhambra palace to the Christian monarchs King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. This was the catalyst for an extraordinary time. By the end of the year, Christopher Columbus had discovered the Americas for Spain and, within thirty years, Spain had unexpectedly exploded, like a meteor, onto the international scene to become the dominant power in Europe. Rich, powerful and newly intolerant, Spain had finally come of age, after a sustained history of disunity and international impotence. In fact, until 1492 Spain had never been united for long, in any meaningful sense, as a single nation. Over a…
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Politics in Spain, the Transition to democracy BY NICK SNELLING Imagine living in one of the most backward countries in Western Europe – a country ruled by the longest serving fascist dictator of the twentieth century, who had murdered and oppressed countless people after one of the most brutal civil wars in modern Europe. Think what it must be like to be in a country where you are not allowed to speak your provincial dialect and where the police are a fearsome para-military force, the law is arbitrary and the media is controlled by the state. Consider a creaking infrastructure with an uneven economy and much of the population existing at subsistence level, at direct variance to the rest of…
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What did the Moors in Spain do for us? BY NICK SNELLING One of the curiosities of Spain is the seeming denial by the Spanish of the past existence of the Moors in their country. Certainly, much is made of the ‘heroic’ Christian Reconquista, but rarely is the Moorish invasion of Spain looked upon as having provided any intrinsic benefit. In fact, apart from a few scintillating buildings, such as the Alhambra and the Cordoba Mezquita, it would be easy to imagine that, during their 780 years presence, the Moors in Spain contributed nothing of consequence to the country. In fact, the Moors had a profound influence not just upon Spain but the whole of Western Europe. Indeed, it has…
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