"When the sun had almost reached the western horizon, I turned around and looked back, my footprint's snaked off into the distance and were lost from sight. The first footprint's of man."In April 2014, Nicholas Oldman goes to bed after his fortieth birthday party and mysteriously disappears.His diary is discovered in 1974.The first book of pages from The Diary of Nicholas Oldman tells the tale of his first months as the only human being on the planet.In a place so vastly different from the world he has come from, Nicholas must overcome far more than a hostile Earth.About the Author: Michael Atkinson lives in Lincoln UK, with his daughter, April, and their two goldfish. He has written screenplays for animation along with a number of unpublished short stories, and has worked with indie musicians and video companies as writer/director. The Diary of Nicholas Oldman is his first published novel.