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Nairobi, Kenya

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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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Average rating: 3.78 · 82 ratings · 19 reviews · 16 distinct works
The Greatest Day in History...
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Five Days That Shocked the ...
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
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The Kings And Queens Of Eng...
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Historic Britain From The Air
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions
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The Kings & Queens Of Scotland
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1999
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The Presidents Of The Unite...
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Trafalgar: The Untold Story...
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions
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Happy Valley
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The Greatest Day in History...
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The Kings and Queens of Eng...
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