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Politics & Social Sciences

The Gentry: Stories of the English

by (HarperPress)

(83 reviews)

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 history. We may well be 'a nation of shopkeepers', but for generations England was a country... See More

Length: 513 Pages (8,342 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

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Biography & True Accounts

The Making of Poetry: Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2019

by (William Collins)

(121 reviews)

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2019 'This is a book of wonders' Sunday Times 'Spellbinding and intelligent' Financial Times 'Extraordinary and engrossing' Spectator It was the most extraordinary year. In a book brimming with poetry and nature writing, biography and adventure, Adam Nicolson walks in the footsteps of Coleridge, Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy during the months in... See More

Length: 390 Pages (49,538 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

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Biography & True Accounts

Men of Honour: Trafalgar and the Making of the English Hero

by (HarperCollins)

(18 reviews)

The Battle of Trafalgar can claim to be one of the most known of the great human events. In Men of Honour, Adam Nicolson takes one of the greatest identifiable heroes in British history, Horatio Nelson, and examines the broader themes of heroism, violence and virtue. Trafalgar gripped the nineteenth century imagination like no other battle: it was a moment of both transcendent fulfilment and... See More

Length: 400 Pages (1,078 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

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Politics & Social Sciences

How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks

by (William Collins)

(36 reviews)

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 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 succession of small eastern Mediterranean harbour-cities, that way of... See More

Length: 369 Pages (58,162 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

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Travel & Tourism

Atlantic Britain: The Story of the Sea a Man and a Ship

by (Harper Perennial)

(32 reviews)

Accompanied by an eight-part series, this is the story of Adam Nicolson's adventure in a small boat around the western coast of the British Isles. Early in the year, Adam Nicolson decided to leave his comfy life at home on a Sussex farm and go on an adventure. Equipped with the Auk, a forty-two-foot wooden ketch, and a friend who at least knew how to sail, he set off up the Atlantic coasts of... See More

Length: 192 Pages (265 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

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Science & Maths

The Seabird’s Cry: The Lives and Loves of Puffins, Gannets and Other Ocean Voyagers

by (William Collins)

(448 reviews)

WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2018 WINNER OF THE JEFFERIES AWARD FOR NATURE WRITING 2017 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. Seabirds are master navigators, thriving in the most demanding environment on... See More

Length: 417 Pages (27,680 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

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Sport

Smell of Summer Grass: Pursuing Happiness at Perch Hill

by (HarperPress)

(95 reviews)

The Smell of Summer Grass is based partly on the long out of print 'Perch Hill'. It 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 quite what he... See More

Length: 337 Pages (6,850 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

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Science & Maths

Sea Room

by (HarperCollins)

(337 reviews)

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be given your own remote islands? Thirty years ago it happened to Adam Nicolson. Aged 21, Nicolson inherited the Shiants, three lonely Hebridean islands set in a dangerous sea off the Isle of Lewis. With only a stone bothy for accommodation and half a million puffins for company, he found himself in charge of one of the most beautiful places on... See More

Length: 418 Pages (2,895 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

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Science & Maths

Life Between the Tides: In Search of Rockpools and Other Adventures Along the Shore

by (William Collins)

(180 reviews)

LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2022 'A remarkable and powerful book, the rarest of things... Nicolson is unique as a writer... I loved it' EDMUND DE WAAL Few places are as familiar as the shore - and few as full of mystery and surprise. How do sandhoppers inherit an inbuilt compass from their parents? How do crabs understand the tides? How can the death of one winkle guarantee the lives... See More

Length: 365 Pages (105,639 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

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Sport

Arcadia: England and the Dream of Perfection (Text Only)

by (Harper Perennial)

(19 reviews)

This ebook does not include illustrations. A fascinating depiction from award-winning author, Adam Nicolson, of a family and a country on the hinge of modernisation. Was our country once a better place? Has modernisation destroyed as much as it has improved? And can we see in an earlier Britain a way of living, an Arcadia, which now seems both ideal and remote? Through 16th- and 17th-century... See More

Length: 400 Pages (811 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

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History & Criticism

The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters

by (William Collins)

(384 reviews)

Longlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (now the Bailie Gifford) '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 Longlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction In this passionate and deeply personal book, Adam Nicolson sets out to explain why... See More

Length: 337 Pages (11,113 KB)/Lending: Not Enabled

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