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Gentry: Six Hundred Years of a Peculiarly English Class by Adam Nicolson
25.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
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
28.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
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
Men of Honour by Adam Nicolson
27.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
This is an unforgettable look at the contradictions of heroism, as embodied by Horatio Nelson and as tested by the battle of Trafalgar. Adam Nicolson looks at the variety of qualities - ruthlessness, bravery, kindness, cruelty - that combined in both Nelson and his troops to carry that fateful day. Traf ...Show more
Power and Glory by Adam Nicolson
29.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
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
Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History by Adam Nicolson
25.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
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 at Perch Hill by Adam Nicolson
23.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
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 Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters by Adam Nicolson
25.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
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
25.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
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
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