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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
Power and Glory - Jacobean England and the Making of the King James Bible by Adam Nicolson
54.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
SeaManShip by Adam Nicolson
39.99 NZD
44.95 (11% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
Early in the year, Adam Nicolson decided to leave his comfy life at home on a Sussex farm and go for an adventure. Equipped with the Auk, a 42-foot wooden ketch, and a friend who at least knew how to sail, he set off up the Atlantic coasts of the British Isles: Cornwall to Scilly, over to Pembrokeshire ...Show more
Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History by Adam Nicolson
27.99 NZD
28.99 (3% off)
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
The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of Puffins, Gannets and Other Ocean Voyagers by Adam Nicolson
39.99 NZD
Category: Natural History | 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
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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