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Juliet Nicolson

Juliet Nicolson
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Juliet Nicolson

Juliet Nicolson is the author of The Perfect Summer: England 1911, Just Before the Storm and The Great Silence: Britain From the Shadow of the First World War to the Dawn of the Jazz Age. She read English at the University of Oxford and has worked in publishing both in the UK and the United States. She is the granddaughter of Vita Sackville-West and the daughter of Nigel Nicolson. She has two daughters and lives with her husband in Sussex.

Abdication will be released on May 22, 2012 in Hardcover, eBook
May 22, 2012
Abdication is now available in Hardcover, eBook
May 22, 2012
Abdication is now available in eBook
May 22, 2012
Abdication will be released on May 22, 2012 in eBook
May 21, 2012
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from Abdication
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USA Today, May 20, 2012
...it takes an adept novel to maneuver around the obstacles thrown up to mask the truth. Abdication, by Juliet Nicolson, is not that adept. Which is surprising because Nicolson is an established writer of histories (The Perfect Summer) and the descendant of...
London Evening Standard, November 17, 2011
...so chiselled and a narrative so intense that the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. Juliet Nicolson Olivia Laing's To the River (Canongate, £16.99) is a romantic, meditative and beautifully written account of Laing's journey along the tiny River...
Bookseller, September 30, 2011
...in the UK (Duckworth), Brazil (Rocco), France (Calmann-Levy), Germany (Goldmann), Italy (Cooper), Russia (AST) and Spain (Mondadori). Historian Juliet Nicolson makes her fiction dbut with a novel set in 1936 about secrecy, love and a king and his...
Guardian.co.uk, August 16, 2011
...Summer: Dancing Into Shadow in 1911. The enduring fascination of upstairs-downstairs Britain on the brink of disaster makes Juliet Nicolson's account an uncannily absorbing high-season read. For a few, the exceptional heat from May to September a...
The Independent, June 30, 2011
...two admirable accounts of the social effects of the Great War – Virginia Nicholson's Singled Out and Juliet Nicolson's The Great Silence - this book weaves together empirical evidence and individual narratives. The survey benefits from nearly all the...
USA Today, May 20, 2012
...it takes an adept novel to maneuver around the obstacles thrown up to mask the truth. Abdication, by Juliet Nicolson, is not that adept. Which is surprising because Nicolson is an established writer of histories (The Perfect Summer) and the descendant of...
Mail Online UK, May 19, 2012
...abdicating to marry a divorcée yet it had been kept out of British newspapers by the palace. Author Juliet Nicolson explains how the crown had to learn to woo the press Since last year's Royal Wedding, the Duchess of Cambridge has become one of the...
Island Packet, February 5, 2012
...large country estate, is ambivalent about all that goes along with his title and inheritance. Sackville-West's daughter, Juliet Nicolson, wrote an entertaining and informative account of the same time period called "The Perfect Summer: England 1911, Just...
Sri Lanka Sunday Times, January 20, 2012
Semicolon, September 20, 2011
...Silence: Britain from the Shadow of the First World War to the Dawn of the Jazz Age by Juliet Nicolson. Semicolon review here. Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy by Diana Preston. Children’s and young adult fiction: Fly, Cher Ami, Fly!: The Pigeon Who Saved...