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Alex, the Life of Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis by Nigel Nicolson
Category: Military
Country House Camera by Christopher Simon Sykes; Nigel Nicolson (Foreword by); Clive Aslet (Foreword by)
Category: Photography
The country house can claim to be the birthplace of photography in England through William Fox Talbot's work in the 1830s at Lacock Abbey. The leisured and affluent upper classes went on to make an art form of their new toy, creating intimate portraits of stunning beauty. This timely new edition of a cl ...Show more
Harold Nicolson Diaries 1907-1964 by Harold Nicolson (ed Nigel Nicolson)
Category: Biography Memoir
One of the great 20th century political diaries back in print in a new edition with 20% new material Harold Nicolson is one of the three great political diarists of the 20th century (along with Chips Channon and Alan Clark). Nicolson was an MP (Conservative, 1935-45, who also flirted with Labour after ...Show more
Portrait of a Marriage by Nigel Nicolson
Category: Biography
The marriage was that between the two writers, Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson and the portrait is drawn partly by Vita herself in an autobiography which she left behind at her death in 1962 and partly by her son, Nigel. It was one of the happiest and strangest marriages there has ever been. Bot ...Show more
Virginia Woolf by Nigel Nicolson
Category: Biography | Series: Lives Ser.
'You cannot find peace by avoiding life' Virginia WoolfAn intimate portrait of Virginia, the best-known and most influential Bloomsbury author of them all - 'All you need to know about the modernist, feminist icon' TIME OUT'A gem' SUNDAY TIMES'As a short introduction to Virginia Woolf this deceptively b ...Show more
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