Adam Nicolson

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Adam Nicolson


Born
September 12, 1957

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History, Home & Garden, Religion & Spirituality


Adam Nicolson writes a celebrated column for The Sunday Telegraph. His books include Sissinghurst, God’s Secretaries, When God Spoke English, Wetland, Life in the Somerset Levels, Perch Hill, Restoration, and the acclaimed Gentry. He is winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and the British Topography Prize and lives on a farm in Sussex.

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Average rating: 3.86 · 10,470 ratings · 1,710 reviews · 63 distinct works • Similar authors
God's Secretaries: The Maki...
3.78 avg rating — 2,112 ratings — published 2003 — 30 editions
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Why Homer Matters
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The Seabird's Cry: The Live...
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Sea Room: An Island Life in...
3.87 avg rating — 1,208 ratings — published 2001 — 15 editions
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The Sea Is Not Made of Wate...
3.53 avg rating — 1,292 ratings — published 2021 — 14 editions
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Seize the Fire: Heroism, Du...
3.85 avg rating — 462 ratings — published 2005 — 13 editions
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Sissinghurst: An Unfinished...
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How to Be: Life Lessons fro...
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The Making of Poetry: Coler...
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The Gentry: Stories of the ...
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“A puritan is such a one as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart.”
― Adam Nicolson, God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible
tags: john-manningham, puritans
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“The place has entered me...it has coloured my life like a stain.”
― Adam Nicolson
tags: landscape, nature, outdoors, place, scotland
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“t's [King James Bible] subject is majesty, not tyranny, and it's political purpose was unifying and enfolding, to elide the kingliness of God with the godliness of kings, to make royal power and divine glory into one invisible garment which could be wrapped around the nation as a whole.”
― Adam Nicolson, God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible
tags: bible
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