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Canadian readers will be pleased to hear Nicky is in Toronto next week and will be signing copies of his new book ‘Folly de Grandeur’ at Indigo books on Thursday April 11th at 7pm. Hope to see you there.

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Press about Nicky’s new book Folly De Grandeur.

From the Sunday Times click here to view.

From the Luxury Channel click here to view.

Nicky recently wrote a piece for the New York Times Magazine on Lee Radziwill. Click here to view the full article.

Out on the 21st March

To view it in the the Oxford Literary Festival click here

Before tinned Salmond swims further up-stream dragging the lowlands in his tubby wake and you need ID cards to cross Hadrian’s Wall, use as your passport to that maybe-new country up North this stunning book, THE SCOTTISH COUNTRY HOUSE, written by the king of Scottish scholars James Knox and superbly photographed by another monarch of the lens, James Fennell.

You’ll find ten private, and for the most-part heretofore unseen, homes….palaces is nearer the mark… their astonishing grandeur of gilding and porcelain and portraits mingled with below-stairs vignettes and snapshots from family albums, (though sadly not one of Lord Stair’s house, where congealing food used to be left on a wheezy hot-plate all day, covered with an old eiderdown), to say nothing of facades and gardens and landscapes. Among the most fascinating is The House of the Binns, the seat of the Dalzells ( a.k.a Dalziels), to which family Diana Vreeland was related….looking at these pics, you’ll suss where she got much of her pizzazz.

Beds and boots in The Binns

Bannisters in Bowhill

Arcades at Arniston

Forebeans at Foulis

Dishes at Dumfries