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{{Short description|Book by David Lodge}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox book  | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books -->
| name           = Nice Work
| title_orig     =
| translator     =
| image          = File:NiceWork.jpg
| caption        = First edition
| author         = [[David Lodge (author)|David Lodge]]
| illustrator    =
| cover_artist   = Paul Cox
| country        = United Kingdom
| language       = English
| series         =
| genre          = [[Campus novel]], [[industrial novel]]
| publisher      = [[Secker & Warburg]]
| release_date   = 1988
| english_release_date =
| media_type     = Print ([[Hardcover|Hardback]], [[Paperback]])
| pages          = 277 pp (hardcover)
| isbn           = 0-436-25667-3
| dewey          = 823/.914 20
| congress       = PR6062.O36 N5 1988
| oclc           = 18778725
| preceded_by    = [[Small World: An Academic Romance]]
| followed_by    =
}}

'''''Nice Work''''' is a 1988 novel by British author [[David Lodge (author)|David Lodge]].  It is the final volume of Lodge's "Campus Trilogy", after ''[[Changing Places]]'' (1975) and ''[[Small World: An Academic Romance]]'' (1984).<ref>{{cite news |first=Natasha |last=Tripney | title=The Campus Trilogy by David Lodge – review | url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/nov/27/david-lodge-campus-trilogy-review | work=The Guardian | date=2011-11-26 | accessdate=2017-07-09}}</ref>  ''Nice Work'' won the [[Sunday Express Book of the Year|''Sunday Express'' Book of the Year]] award in 1988<ref>{{Cite web |last=Able |first=Sane and |title=David Lodge |url=https://theagency.co.uk/the-clients/david-lodge/ |access-date=2023-09-02 |website=The Agency |language=en}}</ref> and was also shortlisted for the [[Booker Prize]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/apr/20/fiction.davidlodge|title=Nice work|first=Rachel|last=Cooke|work=The Observer|date=20 April 2008|accessdate=9 August 2017}}</ref>

The larger socioeconomic background to the novel was the economic policies and education cuts during the [[Margaret Thatcher|Thatcher]] government.<ref>{{cite news |first=Joel |last=Connaroe | title=Campus Confidential | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/23/books/campus-confidential.html?pagewanted=all | work=The New York Times | date=1989-07-23 | accessdate=2017-07-09}}</ref> Lodge was inspired, in part, by his experiences of shadowing a friend who supervised an engineering firm.<ref>{{cite news |first=Benedict |last=Nightingale | title=The Tools a Writer Used for Building An Industrial Novel | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/16/books/the-tools-a-writer-used-for-building-an-industrial-novel.html?pagewanted=all | work=The New York Times | date=1989-10-16 | accessdate=2017-07-09}}</ref>

The year following its publication, the book was adapted in a four-part TV series for the BBC.