Adam Nicolson, FSA, FSA Scot, FRSL (born 12 September 1957) is an English author who has written about history, landscape, great literature and the sea. He is also the 5thBaronCarnock but does not use the title.
Books in order of publication:
The National Trust Book of Long Walks (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981)
Long Walks in France (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1983)
Frontiers (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1985)
Wetland (Michael Joseph, 1987)
Two Roads to Dodge City (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988) with Nigel Nicolson
Prospects of England: Two Thousand Years Seen Through Twelve English Towns (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989) with Peter Morter
On Foot: Guided Walks in England, France, and the United States (Weidenfeld/Harmony, 1990)
Restoration: Rebuilding of Windsor Castle (Michael Joseph, 1997)
Regeneration: The Story of the Dome (HarperCollins, 1999)
Perch Hill: A New Life (Constable, 2000)
Mrs Kipling: The Hated Wife (Short Books, 2001)
Sea Room (HarperCollins, 2001; Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2002)
Power and Glory: The Making of the King James Bible (US title: God’s Secretaries) (HarperCollins, 2003)(2011 reissued in UK as When God Spoke English)
Seamanship (HarperCollins, 2004)
Men of Honour: Trafalgar and the Making of the English Hero (US title: Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and the Battle of Trafalgar) (HarperCollins, 2005)
Earls of Paradise (US title: Quarrel with the King) (HarperCollins, 2008)
Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History (HarperCollins, 2008; US revised edition Viking, 2010)
Arcadia: The Dream of Perfection in Renaissance England (a revised paperback edition of Earls of Paradise) (HarperCollins, 2009)
The Smell of Summer Grass (an updated edition of Perch Hill) (HarperCollins, 2011)
The Gentry: Stories of the English (HarperCollins, 2011)
The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters (US title Henry Holt: Why Homer Matters) (HarperCollins, 2014)
The Seabird’s Cry: The Life and Loves of Puffins, Gannets and Other Ocean Voyagers (HarperCollins, 2017) (US Henry Holt: The Lives and Loves of the Planet’s Great Ocean Voyagers (2018))
The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths and their Year of Marvels (HarperCollins, 2019; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020)
The Sea is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides (HarperCollins, 2021; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Life Between the Tides 2022)
How to Be: Life Lessons From the Early Greeks (HarperCollins, 2023; Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Bird School: a Beginner in the Wood (HarperCollins, 2025; Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
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