Nicholas Best

Nicholas Best grew up in Kenya and was educated there, in England, and at Trinity College, Dublin. He served in the Grenadier Guards and worked in London as a journalist before becoming a full-time author. His many other books include Happy Valley: The Story of the English in Kenya, Tennis and the Masai, and the widely praised Trafalgar. Best was the Financial Times‘s fiction critic for ten years. He lives in Cambridge, England.