Product Description: first published in 2003, Nigel Nicolson writes about the changes that have taken place in the public's attitude to the royal family during his lifetime, and their response to those changes. Now with a new introduction by Charles Anson CVO, former Press Secretary to the Queen, the book explores questions like, What is the Queen like? What does she do? What is the future of the monarchy? In answering these questions, Nicolson draws on his own memories of the royal family, public and private, and on the diaries of his father, Sir Harold Nicolson, who wrote the official biography of George V, and witnessed at first hand the drama of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson...read more

Product Description: The National Trust cares for the finest collection of historic buildings, gardens, parks, landscape and coastline in the world. Its famous and well-respected series of guidebooks provides the essential companion to your visit and a lasting souvenir of the experience...read more

Product Description: The National Trust cares for the finest collection of historic buildings, gardens, parks, landscape and coastline in the world. Its famous and well-respected series of guidebooks provides the essential companion to your visit and a lasting souvenir of the experience...read more

As the author of 'Evelina' and 'Cecilia', both of which created new dimensions for the novel, Fanny Burney is as well remembered for her memoirs of Johnson, her mastectomy and her account of the Battle of Waterloo. This portrait of Burney paints a picture of this forward-looking woman.

Product Description: Nigel Nicolson moved close to royal circles yet was not part of the Court. He has kept a daily diary throughout the years and has observed how a nation that still boasted an empire gradually down-sized to a sovereign state that is now part of the European community...read more

Product Description: From the author of The Land, this poem is a much more personal and symbolic offering. Set against the backdrop of war, the seasons in the garden represent the seasons of life.

Recalls the ties between his family and the novelist and childhood moments spent with her, discussing her walks around his ancestral home, the progression of her well-known works, and her philosophy towards women's issues and war.

The first collection of writings by the seminal modernist introduces readers to Sackville-West's important contribution to modern literature, including poetry, essays, travel narratives, a dream notebook, journal entries, and excerpts from her novels.

Product Description: Nicolson has indeed led a long and eventful life. Here he shares with us his childhood in the heart of Bloomsbury as the son of Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West. He details his publishing career with an account of the house he founded with partner George Weidenfeld and the books they championed - most notably LOLITA, which even his mother thought obscene...read more

A guided tour of the beautiful section of England between London and the Channel includes descriptions of Canterbury, the North Downs and Low Weald, chalk cliffs, castles, pubs, and other aspects of the charming countryside

(view table of contents)

(view table of contents)

The son of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson tells his own story of soldiering, publishing, politics and authorship.

Product Description: Nicolson follows the the footsteps of Austin through southern England, identifing how she drew on them for the settings of her novels.

Product Description: This is a tour through 18th-century England in the footsteps of Jane Austen. The houses, gardens and landscapes she wove into her novels are identified and depicted in photographs.

Product Description: Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson is the 1973 biography of writer and gardener Vita Sackville-West compiled by her son Nigel Nicolson from her journals and letters.

Product Description: A guide tothe properties of the National Trust of the United Kingdom and the National Trust of Scotland including a complete road atlas. The United Kingdom is divided into 10 regions. The atlas locates and describes: historic houses, gardens and parks, castles and abbeys, churches, villages and barns, monuments and follies, prehistoric and roman remains, windmills and watermills, nature reserves and wildfowl refuges, the coasts and the countryside...read more

The authors, a British father and son team traveling from opposite coasts and meeting in Dodge City, chronicle their experiences across America

Gathers letters written by the wife of the British Viceroy of India to her family in the United States, and describes the historical and biographical background of the correspondence

Product Description: Now in her forties and in love, Woolf writes two of her greatest novels during this period. "I can only write, letters that is, if I don't read them: once think and I destroy."-to Pernel Strachey, August 10, 1923. Edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann; Introduction by Nigel Nicolson; Index; photographs...read more