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1.		Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History from HarperPress Price: £10.00 Customer Review: As a great collector of all things Vita Sackville-West, Harold Nicolson and Sissinghurst, I leapt on this book as it appeared. But did I really need it? Surely I have read everything printed about Sissinghurst, Vita and Harold, and visited the garden twice, what could it give me? Well for a start... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

2.		Sea Room from HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Price: £5.99 Customer Review: What a disappointment. The book rambles dreadfully. As soon as you find an interesting bit the author then goes off at a tangent and you lose the thread. I should stress that there are some good bits and some of the turns of phrase are poetic but, in the main, I found the book dull. I was glad I got... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

3.		Men of Honour: Trafalgar and the Making of the English Hero from HarperPerennial Price: £5.99 Customer Review: If you are looking for a single-minded blow by blow account of the battle of Trafalgar, this isn't it. The battle itself is the background to a far weightier and all encompassing subject - the English psyche and what made the English so dominant in the 1800's. Don't be put off by this though -... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

4.		Power and Glory: Jacobean England and the Making of the King James Bible from HarperPerennial Price: £6.99 Customer Review: A thorough and engaging history of the making of the King James Bible (Authorised Version) of 1611. Nicolson does a splendid job of setting the social and religious context in which this most beautiful of (English) translations was conceived and carried forward. The virtues and foibles of King... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

5.		Earls of Paradise from HarperPress Price: £18.99	Click here for more information

6.		Journey Through the British Isles from Merrell Publishers Ltd Price: £26.00 Customer Review: The photographs in this book are stunning and the book is presented in a format which is durable and easily handled yet displays the images well. Harry Cory Wright has obviously gone to extraordinary lengths to capture down to earth images of amazing clarity from around the UK and it shows. This... more info	Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

7.		The Hated Wife: Carrie Kipling 1862-1939 from Faber and Faber Price: £4.74 Customer Review: The title of this book attracted me to it. I wanted to know how the wife of one of the most famous writers of all time had earned this accolade. Having watched the television dramatisation of 'My Boy Jack' last year and seen nothing so extreme about Carrie's personality, I was eager for more... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

8.		Atlantic Britain: The Story of the Sea, a Man, and a Ship from HarperPerennial Price: £5.99 Customer Review: What is this ? A fine writer with a stirring tale to tell conspires to lose the plot before he has even dipped his toes in the subject matter. What we have instead is a beautifully written essay rather than the weighty tome it might have been. The subject matter...Adam's mid life quest to... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

9.		Power and Glory: Jacobean England and the Making of the King James Bible from HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Customer Review: A thorough and engaging history of the making of the King James Bible (Authorised Version) of 1611. Nicolson does a splendid job of setting the social and religious context in which this most beautiful of (English) translations was conceived and carried forward. The virtues and foibles of King... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

10.		Perch Hill: A New Life from Penguin Books Ltd Customer Review: Adam Nicolson is the owner of the Shiants, a trio of small, uninhabited islands inherited from his father, and which lie in the Minch, that stretch of ocean between the Scottish Isle of Skye and the Outer Hebrides. No more peaceful place can be imagined, as Adam described in his book SEA ROOM. So,... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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