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Adam Nicolson

Adam Nicolson writes memoir and non-fiction, including Perch Hill, Sea Room, When God Spoke English and The Mighty Dead. He is the winner of the Wainwright, Ondaatje, William Heinemann and Somerset Maugham prizes. He is a Granta contributing editor.  

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Fiction | Issue 152
Fiction | Issue 152

The Fearful Summer

Adam Nicolson

‘I saw the bodies. They were blotched under the skin where the blood had clotted & pooled. I have never seen the dead so dead.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 142 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 142 padlock

Cows

Adam Nicolson

‘All in it together but not in it together at all.’

Art & Photography | Issue 133
Art & Photography | Issue 133

The Hand’s Breadth Murders

Adam Nicolson & Gus Palmer

‘It is what happens in a place where revenge is the only justice.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 128
Essays & Memoir | Issue 128

Chasing Wolves in the American West

Adam Nicolson

‘It is the wildest part of the American South-West and, in a way, its most beautiful.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 18 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 18 padlock

Wetness

Adam Nicolson

‘The eel is perfect, in its sheen of efficiency, its introversion, scarcely distinct from the place it makes its own, like a cancer, spread into every cell of the moors.’

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