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Gentry: Six Hundred Years of a Peculiarly English Class by Adam Nicolson
Category: History
Adam Nicolson tells the story of England through the history of fourteen gentry families - from the 15th century to the present day. This sparkling work of history reads like a real-life Downton Abbey, as the loves, hatreds and many times of grief of his chosen cast illuminate the grand events of histor ...Show more
God's Secretaries by Adam Nicolson
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
A net of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England. This was the England of Shakespeare, Jonson, and Bacon; the Gunpowder Plot; the worst outbreak of the plague England had ever seen; arcadian landscapes; murderous, toxic slums; and, above all, sometimes overwhelming religious passion. Jacobean En ...Show more
How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks by Adam Nicolson
Category: History
What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we treat each other?Before the Greeks, the idea of the world was dominated by god-kings and their priests, in a life ruled by imagined metaphysical monsters. 2,500 years ago, in a succes ...Show more
How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks by Adam Nicolson
Category: History
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARWhat is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we treat each other?Before the Greeks, the idea of the world was dominated by god-kings and their priests, in a life ruled by imagined metaphysical monsters. 2,50 ...Show more
Life Between the Tides: In Search of Rockpools and Other Adventures Along the Shore by Adam Nicolson
Category: Nature
‘A remarkable and powerful book, the rarest of things … Nicolson is unique as a writer … I loved it’ EDMUND DE WAAL ‘Miraculous … An utterly fascinating glimpse of a watery world we only thought we knew’ PHILIP HOARE Few places are as familiar as the shore – and few as full of mystery and surprise. How ...Show more
Sea Room: An Island Life by Adam Nicolson
Category: Travel | Series: My Love Affair with Islands
Adam Nicolson inherited the Shiant islands when he was 21 and they became in many ways the core of his life. Their long and painful history is combined with a natural world: Bronze Age gold and the memory of sea eagles, an 8th-century hermit, and stories passed down through the generations.
Seize the Fire - Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar by Adam Nicolson
Category: History | Series: P. S. Ser.
“Strikingly original. . . . Mr. Nicolson brings to life superbly the horror, devastation, and gore of Trafalgar.”--The Economist Adam Nicolson takes the great naval battle of Trafalgar, fought between the British and Franco-Spanish fleets in October 1805, and uses it to examine our idea of heroism and t ...Show more
Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History by Adam Nicolson
Category: History
A fascinating account from award-winning author Adam Nicolson of the history of Nicolson's own national treasure, his family home: Sissinghurst. Sissinghurst is world-famous as a place of calm and beauty, a garden slipped into the ruins of a rose-pink Elizabethan palace. But is it entirely what its crea ...Show more
Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History by Adam Nicolson
Category: Gardening
A fascinating account from award-winning author, Adam Nicolson, on the history of Nicolson's own national treasure, his family home: Sissinghurst. Sissinghurst is world famous as a place of calm and beauty, a garden slipped into the ruins of a rose-pink Elizabethan palace. But is it entirely what its cr ...Show more
The Making of Poetry - Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels by Adam Nicolson
Category: Biography
Wordsworth and Coleridge as you've never seen them before in this new book by Adam Nicolson, brimming with poetry, art and nature writing. Proof that poetry can change the world. It is the most famous year in English poetry. Out of it came The Ancient Mariner and 'Kubla Khan', as well as Coleridge's un ...Show more
The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels by Adam Nicolson
Category: Biography
Wordsworth and Coleridge as you've never seen them before in this new book by Adam Nicolson, brimming with poetry, art and nature writing. Proof that poetry can change the world. It is the most famous year in English poetry. Out of it came The Ancient Mariner and 'Kubla Khan', as well as Coleridge's un ...Show more