It is not often that science forms the foundation for a great work of literary fiction. As Jay McInerney recently wrote in The New York Times Book Review, the literary novel should require of us new ...

For lovers of Alexander McCall Smith, Nicholas Drayson introduces the charming Mr Malik and the East African Ornithological Society in A Guide to the Birds of East Africa. Reserved, honourable Mr ...

An eccentric Victorian naturalist obsessed with beetles turns out to have an unlikely role in formulating the theory of evolution in Nicholas Drayson's richly imagined debut novel, Confessing a Murder ...

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THE subtitle of this book is: A Novel. Sensible, otherwise the title might be misleading. But it is all part of the slightly wacky, whimsical tone of Nicholas Drayson’s tale. The story is set in ...

A charming love triangle in Nairobi, Kenya, forms the center of a novel that manages to be both sweet and gripping. Mr. Malik, a quiet widower guided by a naïve crush, spends his Tuesdays on bird ...

Nicholas Drayson’s second novel, A Guide to the Birds of East Africa, combines the author’s knowledge of Kenya’s birds with an enchanting love story. Mr Malik is a humble and balding Indian widower.

The notion of bird-watching as a competitive sport seems contradictory, but then who would imagine elderly twitchers could harbour secret passions beneath their binoculars? In Nicholas Drayson's ...

Whether you know Nairobi only from sensationalizing headlines and news reports or from a furtive stopover en route to a Serengeti safari, chances are good that menace and chaos color your associations ...