This sounds fascinating! GOD'S SECRETARIES (great title) - the writing of the #KingJamesBible by the amazingly prolific #AdamNicolson, praised by Graeme Fife: 'deft portraits of characters, strengths, quirks and all'. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2026/01/gues... @harperperennial.bsky.social
Back to reading this after a little break and it's instantly wonderful, all over again.
If anyone's looking for presents to buy, or to ask for, this a treat for anyone interested in birds, birdsong, writing/language, being alert to the world around, the throb of life.
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Regular contributor Graeme Fife admires Adam Nicolson's THE MIGHTY DEAD. "Nicolson, in this enthralling book, introduces Homer in a way entirely apt to the invention and broad sweep of the original." reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/11/gues... #Homer #classics #AncientGreece #AdamNicolson
That may, it became something I would look forward to every day, getting up in the night, creeping from the bedroom not to disturb Sarah, wanting to get out to where I would find the blackbird flinging his song into the silence around him. Morning after morning I was up before dawn to hear him. Every time I heard something different. If a cherry could sing, I thought one day, it would sound like a blackbird, rounded and full and fleshy, that dark sugar-juice. Or a pot of apricots bubbling over, the sharpness in the sweetness, a sudden asperity. Or something matronly about it, a full embonpoint of song, as if a contralto were running through her scales in a drawing room somewhere at the far end of the house, and thinking to herself what pleasure there was to be had from life. Or maybe it was meaty, the music that boeuf bourguignon would make after it had been long bubbled on the heat. Or at other times, the laziness of a master toying with his instrument, the phrases played on the keys of a piano neglected in the corner of a bar, a cigarette in the mouth or smoking on the side. Or a slide guitar: no frets, all slip. One description after another floated up into my mind with each familiar phrase. It was all too much, this way of talking or thinking about a bird, but what else do we have?
Swoon song writing here.
from 'BIRD SCHOOL' - Adam Nicolson (@wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social)
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Beautiful birthday present from my daughter who owns Press Books and Coffee in Hednesford. The writing in the first few pages gave me goosebumps.
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You may not think you are interested in birds but you will be when you’ve read BIRD SCHOOL by Adam Nicolson. Thrilling, beautiful, astonishing, moving, intimate & wondrous.
Amazon #1 bestseller in ecology.
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