Nikki Gemmell is best-known for The Bride Stripped Bare (2003), an explicit exploration of female sexuality. 

Several of her books, including Shiver, The Book of Rapture and The Bride Stripped Bare, made the longlist of 'Favourite Australian Novels' as chosen by readers of the Australian Book Review. Her other novels include With My Body and I Take You (that form the Bride Trilogy with the original The Bride Stripped Bare), Lovesong and Pleasure.

Her non-fictions works are After (2017), Why You Are Australian, Honestly: Notes on Life, and Pleasure: An Almanac for the Heart. Nikki also writes novels for children, including  the Kensington Reptilarium series and the Coco Banjo series. 

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