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Adam Nicolson

Adam Nicolson
Adam Nicolson is a prize-winning writer of many books on history and nature, including Sea Room, the New York Times bestseller God's Secretaries, and the acclaimed Why Homer Matters. His most recent novel is The Seabird's Cry. He is winner of the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the W. H. Heinemann Award, and the British Topography prize. He has written and presented many television series and lives on a farm in Sussex.


The Secret Language of Tawny Owls

“These are owl woods and always will be unless something is done to remove them.”
September 19, 2025  By Adam Nicolson
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Wordsworth: Caught in the Act of Making Poetry!

Adam Nicolson on the Friendship Between Coleridge and Wordsworth
January 21, 2020  By Adam Nicolson
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In Awe of Seabirds at the Edge of the World

Adam Nicolson Beholds the Poetic Beauty of the Guillemot
February 7, 2018  By Adam Nicolson
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