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Gentry: Six Hundred Years of a Peculiarly English Class by Adam Nicolson
$24.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
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
How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks by Adam Nicolson
$37.99 NZD
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
Life Between the Tides: In Search of Rockpools and Other Adventures Along the Shore by Adam Nicolson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Natural History
‘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
Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History by Adam Nicolson
$28.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
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
Smell of Summer Grass: Pursuing Happiness - Perch Hill 1944-2011 by Adam Nicolson
$54.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Perch Hill is the story of the years spent in finding and building a personal Arcadia, sometimes a dream, sometimes a nightmare, by writer Adam Nicolson and his wife, cook and gardener, Sarah Raven. Adam Nicolson was determined to leave metropolitan life but the rundown farm in the Sussex Weald was not ...Show more
Smell of Summer Grass: Pursuing Happiness at Perch Hill by Adam Nicolson
$22.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The Smell of Summer Grass is the story of the years spent in finding and building a personal idyll, sometimes a dream, sometimes a nightmare, by writer Adam Nicolson and his wife, cook and gardener, Sarah Raven. Without knowing one end of a hay baler from the other, Adam Nicolson and Sarah Raven, fed up ...Show more
The Making of Poetry - Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels by Adam Nicolson
$59.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
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 Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters by Adam Nicolson
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
Longlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 'A thrilling and complex book, enlarges our view of Homer ... 'There's something that hits the mark on every page' - Claire Tomalin, Books of the Year, New Statesman Where does Homer come from? And why does Homer matter? His epic poems of wa ...Show more
The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of Puffins, Gannets and Other Ocean Voyagers by Adam Nicolson
$39.99 NZD
Category: Pets & Animals | Reading Level: near fine
The story of seabirds - the pattern of their lives, their habitats, the threats they face and the passions they inspire from one of our greatest nature writers. "I was entranced...It is a work that takes wing in the mind." ROBERT MACFARLANE Seabirds have always entranced the human imagination and Adam N ...Show more
The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of Puffins, Gannets and Other Ocean Voyagers by Adam Nicolson
$25.00 NZD
Category: Pets & Animals
The full story of seabirds from one of the greatest nature writers. The book looks at the pattern of their lives, their habitats, the threats they face and the passions they inspire - beautifully illustrated by Kate Boxer. WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2018 SHORTLISTED FOR THE JEFFERIES AWARD FOR NATUR ...Show more
When God Spoke English: The Making of the King James Bible by Adam Nicolson
$26.99 NZD
Category: History
A fascinating, lively account of the making of the King James Bible. James VI of Scotland -- now James I of England -- came into his new kingdom in 1603. Trained almost from birth to manage rival political factions, he was determined not only to hold his throne, but to avoid the strife caused by religio ...Show more
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