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Nicholas Best

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Nairobi, Kenya

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History, Travel, Literature & Fiction

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Nicholas Best is a British author of Anglo-Irish origin. He grew up in Kenya and was educated there, at King's School, Canterbury and at Trinity College, Dublin. He served with the Grenadier Guards in Windsor and Belize and worked in London as a journalist before becoming a full time author. He lives now in Cambridge.

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 [1], was later serialised on BBC Radio 4. It told the story of a Kenya 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.

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Books by Nicholas Best

Average rating: 3.78 · 82 ratings · 19 reviews · 16 distinct works

	The Greatest Day in History: How, on the Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month, the First World War Finally Came to an End 3.60 avg rating — 42 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	Five Days That Shocked the World: Eyewitness Accounts from Europe at the End of World War II 4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Kings And Queens Of England 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings	My rating:
	Historic Britain From The Air 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Kings & Queens Of Scotland by Nicholas Best, The National Gallery of Scotland 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	The Presidents Of The United States Of America 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Trafalgar: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sea Battle in History 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Happy Valley 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Greatest Day in History (Large Print 16pt) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	The Kings and Queens of England: Miniature Edition 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2012	My rating:

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