Christopher Nicholson
Christopher Nicholson
Natural World | Memoir
Christopher Nicholson is the author of three novels, including The Elephant Keeper, which was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and Encore Prize, and Winter, described by Alison Lurie in the New York Review of Books as ‘one of the most dramatically convincing and moving Famous Writer Novels I have ever read.’ Among the Summer Snows was shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature and longlisted for the Highland Book Prize. He has lived near Shaftesbury in Dorset for the past thirty years.
AMONG THE SUMMER SNOWS
AMONG THE SUMMER SNOWS
‘A glorious little book.’
MICHAEL KERR, DAILY TELEGRAPH
‘A startlingly beautiful book . . . Mortality, aesthetic beauty, deep time and loss are themes never far from the surface in this exquisitely written book . . . Among the Summer Snows is at once haunting, moving, silent, and profoundly beautiful.’
Alex Roddie, The Great Outdoors
‘Lyrical and elegiac, this debut is a tender account of an unusual fascination with the remaining snows of the Scottish Highlands. Nicholson offers us a wry, self-aware take on the relationship between humans and the changed (and changing) natural world.’
HELEN MORT, CHAIR OF BOARDMAN TASKER AWARD JUDGES
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‘Strange, beautiful, eerie and unique, this is the best mountain book I’ve read in years’
TRAIL MAGAZINE
‘This ravishingly lovely book is about thought-snow, summer snow, flight, falling, stillness, memory, loss, mountains, Time, death, survival and everything in between. It is an intense scrutiny of minute worlds, a roaming gaze into the vastness of space, intimate, introspective and questioning.’
KEGGIE CAREW, AUTHOR OF DADLAND
‘A beautiful book about love and loss, fragility and chance, the wide world and the near world . . . full of intense light and colour, extraordinary glimpses, moving insights and subtle humour.’
RICHARD KERRIDGE, AUTHOR OF COLD BLOOD
‘Beautifully written, it is both elegiac and optimistic, a meditation on life and death. The descriptions of the snow patches are wonderfully detailed, the determination involved in reaching them familiar to anyone who walks in the hills . . . Among the Summer Snows is, I think, destined to become a classic of mountain literature. Superb.’
CHRISTOPHER TOWNSEND, OUTDOORS.COM
‘It’s the story of a personal journey triggered partly by grief, but it’s also a study in what nature, and getting out into nature, means to us all. Nicholson’s writing on wildlife, flora and the mountain environment is detailed and immediate’
WALKINGWORLD.COM
‘Nicholson made me laugh and cry within just a few pages . . . left me humbled as he revealed a range of other interconnected wonders I never knew about . . . a wrong-footing marvel of a book.’
DAVID ROBINSON, BOOKS FROM SCOTLAND
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