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...

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...

En engelsk baron og 300 000 hekkende fugler på Shiant-øyene i Indre Hebridene er utgangspunktet for denne odysseen i sjøfuglenes liv. Ti forskjellige sjøfugler eller grupper av sjøfugler, mer eller mindre vanlige, noen nesten utryddet, blir presentert...

En engelsk baron og 300 000 hekkende fugler på Shiant-øyene i Indre Hebridene er utgangspunktet for denne odysseen i sjøfuglenes liv. Ti forskjellige sjøfugler eller grupper av sjøfugler, mer eller mindre vanlige, noen nesten utryddet, blir presentert...

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,...

Where does Homer come from? And why does Homer matter? His epic poems of war and suffering can still speak to us of the role of destiny in life, of cruelty, of humanity and its frailty, but why they do is a mystery. How can we be so intimate with something...

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...