New Releases by Nigel Nicolson

Nigel Nicolson est le fils de Vita Sackville-West et de Harold Nicolson. Elle était la célèbre romancière et lui l’homme politique de renom. Ils eurent un mariage heureux et l'affection qu’ils se portaient n'a cessé de croître en profondeur en dépit des complications résultant de leur singularité : « Tous deux aimèrent des gens de leur propre sexe. » Leur union connut des tumultes causés par leurs infidélités respectives – la passion amoureuse de Vita pour Violet Trefusis notamment –, mais leur mariage demeura l'axe inébranlable de leur vie. Écrivain, éditeur de la correspondance de Virginia Woolf, Nigel Nicolson a publié en 1973 ce qui se donne à la fois comme le journal intime de sa mère, un récit d’une incroyable modernité – « un jour viendra où la société acceptera que les femmes puissent aimer les femmes et les hommes, les hommes » (Vita Sackville-West en 1920) – et un panégyrique du mariage. Traduit de l’anglais par Viviane Forrester.

The year 2012 marks Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee, the 60th anniversary of her coronation. In The Queen & Us, first published in 2003, Nigel Nicolson writes about the changes that have taken place in the public's attitude to the royal family during his lifetime, and their response to those changes. Now with a new introduction by Charles Anson CVO, former Press Secretary to the Queen, the book explores questions like, What is the Queen like? What does she do? What is the future of the monarchy? In answering these questions, Nicolson draws on his own memories of the royal family, public and private, and on the diaries of his father, Sir Harold Nicolson, who wrote the official biography of George V, and witnessed at first hand the drama of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson.

An intimate portrait of one of our greatest and most fascinating writers is presented by Nicolson, the distinguished son of British writers Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West--one of Woolf's closest friends and sometime lover.

Lord Leverhulme became involved with the Western Isles after the First World War when he sought to rescue the islanders on Lewis and Harris and introduce them to a new prosperity as he saw it.

Vita Sackville-West, novelist, poet, and biographer, is best known as the friend of Virginia Woolf, who transformed her into an androgynous time-traveler in Orlando. The story of her love affair with Violet Keppel Trefusis in 1920 is one of intrigue and bewilderment. In Portrait of a Marriage, Nigel Nicolson combines his mother's vivid memoir of escapade with what he learned from copious family letters and explains the context of this romantic crisis. He also describes how Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson went on to live the rest of their lives in harmonious marriage.

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