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Lord of the Golden Fan
An historical novel of the life of Will Adams, an English adventurer who left Elizabethan Kent to voyage through Indonesia and become the first Englishman to visit Japan, where he became a Samurai after befriending Shogun Iyeyasu.
392 pages, Hardcover
First published June 21, 1973
About the author
Christopher Nicole
227 books59 followersChristopher Robin Nicole was born on 7 December 1930 in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana), where he was raised. He is the son of Jean Dorothy (Logan) and Jack Nicole, a police officer, both Scottish. He studied at Queen's College in Guyana and at Harrison College in Barbados. He was a fellow at the Canadian Bankers Association and a clerk for the Royal Bank of Canada in Georgetown and Nassau from 1947 to 1956. In 1957, he moved to Guernsey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom, where he currently lives, but he also has a domicile in Spain.
On 31 March 1951, he married his first wife, Jean Regina Amelia Barnett, with whom he had two sons, Bruce and Jack, and two daughters, Julie and Ursula, they divorced. On 8 May 1982 he married for the second time with fellow writer Diana Bachmann.
As a romantic and passionate of history, Nicole has been published since 1957, when he published a book about West Indian Cricket. He published his first novel in 1959 with his first stories set in his native Caribbean. Later he wrote many historical novels set mostly in tumultuous periods like World War I, World War II and the Cold War, and depict places in Europe, Asia and Africa. He also wrote classic romance novels. He specialized in Series and Sagas, and continues to write into the 21st century with no intention of retiring.
He signs his books as Christopher Nicole and uses several pseudonyms, some of them female. Pseudonyms used include: Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C. R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He wrote disaster thrillers in collaboration with his wife, Diana Bachmann, under the penname Max Marlow. Under his different pseudonyms he has worked with many publishing houses: Jarrolds, Hutchinson, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, Jove, Michael Joseph, Mills & Boon, and Severn House.
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On 31 March 1951, he married his first wife, Jean Regina Amelia Barnett, with whom he had two sons, Bruce and Jack, and two daughters, Julie and Ursula, they divorced. On 8 May 1982 he married for the second time with fellow writer Diana Bachmann.
As a romantic and passionate of history, Nicole has been published since 1957, when he published a book about West Indian Cricket. He published his first novel in 1959 with his first stories set in his native Caribbean. Later he wrote many historical novels set mostly in tumultuous periods like World War I, World War II and the Cold War, and depict places in Europe, Asia and Africa. He also wrote classic romance novels. He specialized in Series and Sagas, and continues to write into the 21st century with no intention of retiring.
He signs his books as Christopher Nicole and uses several pseudonyms, some of them female. Pseudonyms used include: Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C. R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He wrote disaster thrillers in collaboration with his wife, Diana Bachmann, under the penname Max Marlow. Under his different pseudonyms he has worked with many publishing houses: Jarrolds, Hutchinson, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, Jove, Michael Joseph, Mills & Boon, and Severn House.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christop... and
http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL1009...
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January 7, 2013
It is 4.5 stars actually. I loved this book. The writer did a good job in exposing the old Japanese culture, and I couldn't stop thinking about this book for days after I read it.
April 29, 2020
I read this because of my love for Shogun. I had read somewhere that this might be an influence on it. Well, from what I can tell, it inspired him to right a much better book. I gave it two stars because:
It is really unintentionally funny. Imagine a swinging 60's novel in that time frame. Yes people probably had these thoughts and yes, they might have expressed them in the Elizabethan equivalent of the locker room but the protagonist comes off as a total product of male wish fulfillment. It's basically the Male version of a bodice ripper.
Just so you know, I love "Outlander" as much as anybody but the characters are all realistic even in moments of lust. The women in this book are all cardboard-English or Japanese.
Two stars because you will laugh and for the stray historical tidbit.
It is really unintentionally funny. Imagine a swinging 60's novel in that time frame. Yes people probably had these thoughts and yes, they might have expressed them in the Elizabethan equivalent of the locker room but the protagonist comes off as a total product of male wish fulfillment. It's basically the Male version of a bodice ripper.
Just so you know, I love "Outlander" as much as anybody but the characters are all realistic even in moments of lust. The women in this book are all cardboard-English or Japanese.
Two stars because you will laugh and for the stray historical tidbit.
February 13, 2019
Прочитано на русском. Книжка средненькая, но было интересно почитать про японскую культуру.
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April 23, 2026Fantastic.
I basically travelled to ancient Japan and learnt interesting customs just by reading this book.
I basically travelled to ancient Japan and learnt interesting customs just by reading this book.
March 27, 2014
This is Shogun if it were a fraction of the length, less rambling, and overall better written. It tells almost the same story, but manages to reveal more of Japanese culture and have more action and adventure. I fully recommend this book. The love story is better handled as well.
July 17, 2018
Very entertaining read and worth the time
You will enjoy this book if you have an interest in Japanese culture. It will keep your attention right to the end
You will enjoy this book if you have an interest in Japanese culture. It will keep your attention right to the end
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