Adam Nicolson

An intimate exploration of the lives of birds and their interactions with man, by a preeminent naturalist.

In Life Between the Tides, Adam Nicolson investigates one of the most revelatory habitats on earth. Under his microscope, we see a prawn's head become a medieval helmet and a group of "winkles" transform into a Dickensian social scene, with mollusks munching on Stilton....

A global tragedy is unfolding. Even as we are coming to understand them, the number of seabirds on our planet is in free fall, dropping by nearly 70% in the last 60 years....

Adam Nicolson sees the Iliad and the Odyssey as the foundation myths of Greek - and our - consciousness....

It is the greatest work of English prose ever written, and it is no coincidence that the translation was made at the moment “Englishness” and the English language had come into its first passionate maturity....

Adam Nicolson's powerful memoir reveals the history of one of Europe's most famous gardens and the ongoing battle over its future....

Adam Nicolson takes the great naval battle of Trafalgar, fought between the British and Franco-Spanish fleets in October 1805, and uses it to examine our idea of heroism and the heroic....

In How to Be, Adam Nicolson takes us on a glorious, immersive journey. Grounded in the belief that places give access to minds, however distant and strange, this book reintroduces us to our earliest thinkers through the lands they inhabited....

Sissinghurst is world famous as a place of beauty, a garden slipped into the ruins of an Elizabethan palace. But is it entirely what its creators intended?....

Adam Nicolson explores the natural wonders of the intertidal and our long human relationship with it....

From where does Homer come? And why does Homer matter?....

Prize-winning and bestselling writer Adam Nicolson travels through a transforming world and asks what light ancient thinkers can throw on our deepest preconceptions....

Close to Adam Nicolson’s home in Sussex, there is a forgotten field overrun by bracken and thicketed by brambles. It is the haunt of deer and many birds.

Best-selling and award-winning writer Adam Nicolson tells the story, almost day by day, of the year in the late 1790s that Coleridge, Wordsworth, his sister Dorothy and an ever-shifting cast of friends, dependents and acolytes spent together in the Quantock Hills in Somerset....

Prize-winning author Adam Nicolson tells the story he was born to write – the real story of England. It is the gentry that has made England what it was and, to a degree, still is....