Nicholas Best
Nicholas Best is a British author of Anglo-Irish origin. He grew up in
and worked in London as a journalist before becoming a full-time author.His early books include Happy Valley: The story of the English in Kenya, and Where were you at Waterloo?, a satirical novel of army life. His second novel, Tennis and the Masai,prep school similar to Best's own,[2] where the cricket score arrived by carrier pigeon and runaway boys were hunted down with spearmen and tracker dogs.
Published works
- Happy Valley: The story of the English in Kenya (Secker and Warburg, 1979)
- Where were you at Waterloo? (R. Hale, 1981)
- Tennis and the Masai (Hutchinson, 1986)
- Medieval Britain (with Andy Williams; Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995)
- Celtic Britain (with Andy Williams; Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995)
- Historic Britain from the air (with Jason Hawkes; Vendome Press, 1995)
- The Presidents of the United States of America (Little, Brown and Co., 1995)
- The Kings and Queens of England (Little, Brown and Co., 1995)
- The Knights Templar (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997)
- The Kings and Queens of Scotland (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999)
- London in the Footsteps of the Famous (Bradt Travel Guides, 2002)
- Trafalgar: the untold story of the greatest sea battle in history (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005)
- The Greatest Day in History: how the Great War really ended (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008)
- Five Days that shocked the World (St Martin's Press, 2011)
- Point Lenana (Kindle Single, 2014)
- The Hangman's Story (Kindle Single, 2016)
- Seven Days of Infamy (St Martin's Press, 2016)
- Bell Harry (Endeavour, 2019)
References
- Sunday Timesmagazine, 25 May 1986
- London Daily Telegraph, 30 August 2003