Peter Nichols: 21 books
by Peter Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2017
The playwright Peter Nichols has been a compulsive diarist all his life. He writes for himself alone, responding to an urge to record the daily doings, private and professional, of his family, his fellows - and himself. The resulting diaries are candid, insightful, and often as shockingly funny as...
Nichols Plays: 2
Chez Nous; Privates on Parade; Born in the Gardens; Passion Play; Poppy
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
A rich selection from the best of Nichols' work up to and including his award-winning Privates on Parade
This volume continues the stage plays of Peter Nichols, newly revised and introduced by the author. Chez Nous is about English couples who bring their emotional baggage with them on a holiday...
Sea Change
Alone Across the Atlantic in a Wooden Boat
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
Sea Change is Peter Nichols' first book, a biographical account of his own dramatic adventure. When his marriage ended, Nichols had to sell the only thing he and his wife owned - their boat. With only his sextant, his instincts as a seasoned sailor and his memories of a floundering marriage, he sets...
Nichols Plays: 1
Day in the Death of Joe Egg;The National Health; Hearts and Flowers; The Freeway; Forget-me-not Lane
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
A rich selection from the best of Nichols' work up to and including his award-winning Privates on Parade
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg is based on the author's experience of having a mentally handicapped child and won the John Whiting Award; The National Health was commissioned by Kenneth Tynan...
by Peter Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In 1968, nine sailors set off on the most daring race ever held: to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe nonstop. It was a feat that had never been accomplished and one that would forever change the face of sailing. Ten months later, only one of the nine men would cross the finish line and earn...
Oil and Ice
A Story of Arctic Disaster and the Rise and Fall of America's Last Whaling Dynas ty
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
"Peter Nichols has crafted a terrifyingly relevant historical narrative...A terrific read."
-Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In The Heart of the Sea
In 1871, America's last fleet of whaling ships was destroyed in an arctic ice storm. Miraculously, 1,218 men, women and children survived,...
The Rocks
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
**“Irresistibly sunny… Set in the brightly lit Mediterranean amid old olive trees and sexual intrigue, music and wine and beautiful women... Propulsive.” –The New York Times Book Review
“The perfect book for pretending it's already beach season.” –O, The Oprah Magazine
A...
by Peter NICHOLS
Language: French
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Sexe, mensonges et Martini... Bienvenue dans la villa Los Roques !
Après s'être soigneusement évités pendant cinquante ans, deux octogénaires, Lulu Davenport et Gerald Rutledge, se croisent au marché de Cala Marsopa, une petite ville de Majorque. Une rencontre explosive et... fatale. Autrefois,...
The Objectivist Nexus
Essays in Cultural Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
"Objectivist" writers, conjoined through a variety of personal, ideological, and literary-historical links, have, from the late 1920s to the present, attracted emulation and suspicion. Representing a nonsymbolist, postimagist poetics and characterized by a historical, realist, antimythological...
Evolution's Captain
NF abt Capt. FitzRoy & Chas Darwin
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
This is the story of the man without whom the name Charles Darwin might be unknown to us today. That man was Captain Robert FitzRoy, who invited the 22-year-old Darwin to be his companion on board the Beagle .
This is the remarkable story of how a misguided decision by Robert FitzRoy, captain...
by Peter Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
A Piece of My Mind "transforms a self-confessed case of writer's block into a continuously inventive and thought-provoking comedy" (Charles Spencer, London Daily News)
"The portrait of a marriage and his strained relationship with his teenage children all seem to come straight...
by Peter Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
"Blue Murder is an absolute cracker, as ingenious as it is riotously funny" (Daily Telegraph)
Blue Murder opens with Foreign Bodies, where Swinging London meets bourgeois Shrewsbury and the drinks are laced with cyanide. As the son of the household struggles to write his first play,...
by Peter Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
"Kal judged they had walked for perhaps twenty minutes when Atilius stopped. Kal not paying a great deal of attention to his companion, walked right into the other man’s back. “This is no time for sleep walking, Kal,” Atilius hissed in annoyance. “So why don’t you wake up from your nap, unless...
New York Times Essential Library: Children's Movies
A Critic's Guide to the Best Films Available on Video and DVD
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2003
An indispensable guide for parents from a leading expert on children's film
For years Peter M. Nichols has been offering vital advice and information for parents about current movies in his regular "Taking the Children" column. But parents need the same kind of guidance when renting...
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