William Nicholson Books in Order

A stuffed rabbit longs to become real through the love of a child. This classic story is especially remembered for William Nicholson's illustrations, which give the nursery world warmth, beauty, and quiet feeling.

After losing both job and marriage, William Elliot sets out on an increasingly strange sexual quest. Part satire, part self-discovery novel, it follows his journey through a series of lessons about desire, freedom, and intimacy.

Nicholson's stage play follows C. S. Lewis as his orderly Oxford life is transformed by Joy Davidman. Love, grief, and faith collide in a moving drama about ideas that suddenly become personal.

This volume gathers the poems of William Nicholson, known as the Bard of Galloway. Written in Scots and English, the pieces draw on rural life, local speech, love, humor, and the textures of ordinary work.

Beginning with Henry VIII's marriage to Anne of Cleves and ending with Katherine Howard's execution, this play turns Tudor history into intimate drama. Nicholson focuses on youth, power, desire, and the danger of living close to a king.

In Aramanth, every child is ranked by endless exams and every family lives by the result. When fierce, stubborn Kestrel rebels, she and her twin brother Bowman set out to recover the secret that might free their city.

Five years after Aramanth changes, the Mastery's armies arrive and carry the Manth people into slavery. Separated from Bowman, Kestrel turns to resistance while her brother is drawn toward the strange power behind their captors.

Freed but far from safe, the Manth begin a brutal journey toward a promised land. Temptation, prophecy, and sacrifice test Bowman, Kestrel, and the whole tribe in Nicholson's stark, emotional finale.

During a family weekend, Edward tells his wife and grown son that he has met another woman. What follows is a painfully precise play about honesty, marriage, and the damage done when a settled life suddenly breaks.

A cynical young drifter hitchhikes across Europe and blunders into a violent, oppressive state. Hunted by terrorists and government forces alike, he has to decide what he believes, and what kind of person he wants to be.

Seeker follows his disgraced older brother to the island fortress of the Nom, home of the legendary Noble Warriors. There he joins Morning Star and the Wildman, and discovers that faith, power, and heroism are far more dangerous than they look.

Bron, a London writer fascinated by love at first sight, retreats to a country house to work on a book about romance. Meeting the elusive Flora turns theory into obsession, and sends him into a witty, unsettling test of what true love really means.

Seeker, Morning Star, and the Wildman return to a world where the Noble Warriors are not what they seemed. As empires close in and old vows are tested, each must choose between obedience, violence, and truth.

The final Noble Warriors book pulls hidden histories and legends into the open. As Seeker and his companions face war, betrayal, and the meaning of the order's founding vow, the mystery of Noman itself comes into focus.

In a Sussex village, Laura's settled life is shaken when her first love reappears after twenty years. Nicholson follows her family and neighbors through desire, jealousy, and the hidden dramas inside ordinary days.

Rich and Maddy are ordinary teenagers with grand hopes, bad timing, and no clear idea how love actually works. Nicholson writes frankly and sympathetically about first desire, embarrassment, heartbreak, and the wonder of getting closer to someone real.

This seventeenth-century religious manual expands the Church of England catechism for children preparing for confirmation. It explains doctrine, prayer, and Christian duty in a practical, instructional style shaped by Anglican teaching.

Over one tense week in Sussex, Belinda discovers her husband is having an affair and watches her life tilt sideways. Around her, teenagers, friends, and neighbors stumble through their own hopeful, messy searches for love.

Old friends and old resentments collide in an Elizabethan mansion during the financial crisis. Nicholson uses a reunion between an artist, a banker, and the woman between them to satirize greed, class anger, and moral self-justification.

When Belinda learns her husband has been unfaithful, her comfortable neighborhood suddenly looks less secure. Friends, children, and neighbors are tangled in their own missed chances and new attractions in this ensemble story of middle-aged upheaval.

Maggie and Andrew have managed to keep love alive by living apart, until the idea of moving in together forces a reckoning. Over a hot Sussex week, their decision ripples through a circle of neighbors with troubles of their own.

After a breakup, Alice Dickinson travels to Normandy to meet the grandmother she has never known. What follows is a family story stretching back to wartime Sussex, the Dieppe raid, and one love that echoes across generations.

As the Second World War ends and the Cold War begins, private lives are pulled into public history. Nicholson moves from 1945 to 1962, mixing love, ambition, and fear of nuclear catastrophe in a sweeping family drama.

This novel pairs a contemporary love story with the nineteenth-century affair between Austin Dickinson and Mabel Loomis Todd. Set in Emily Dickinson's shadow, it explores passion, self-deception, and the cost of following desire.

This brief nineteenth-century drama now reads mainly as a period piece. Its compact scenes and dialogue offer a small window into the manners, emotions, and stage conventions of its time.

Set over the days around the 2015 general election, this novel returns to Nicholson's Sussex characters as marriages wobble and new desires surface. It is a sharp, humane look at middle age, loyalty, sex, and reinvention.

Presented as the adventures of Count de Benyowsky, this wide-ranging memoir covers war in Poland, exile in Kamchatka, escape across the Pacific, and schemes in Madagascar. It mixes travel narrative, survival story, and eighteenth-century self-mythmaking.

A charming picture book of animal portraits, paired with light rhymes by Arthur Waugh. William Nicholson's bold, elegant illustrations do most of the magic, catching each creature with wit and a remarkably quick eye.

This biography traces the life of the Enlightenment scientist, inventor, publisher, and entrepreneur William Nicholson. It follows his work across chemistry, engineering, commerce, and print culture in a fast-changing Britain.

An expanded American printing of Nicholson's reference work, covering arts, sciences, and practical knowledge across many fields. It is a snapshot of how encyclopedias tried to organize the world before modern specialization.

This large reference work aims to give readers a broad, practical survey of the arts and sciences. It reflects early nineteenth-century curiosity, gathering useful knowledge across subjects in an accessible encyclopedia format.

This edition presents Nicholson's encyclopedia as a wide-ranging dictionary of human knowledge. Designed for practical use as much as scholarship, it brings together technical, scientific, and everyday subjects in one ambitious work.

An early chemistry text written to explain the subject clearly for students and general readers. It lays out basic chemical ideas and experiments at a moment when modern scientific language was still taking shape.

This slim early twentieth-century poetry book pairs W. H. Davies's poems with decoration by William Nicholson. The result is quiet, musical verse wrapped in strong, graceful visual design.