God’s Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible – Adam Nicolson

This was the England of Shakespeare, Johnson, and Bacon; the era of the Gunpowder Plot and the worst outbreak of the plague. Jacobean England was both more godly and less godly than the country had ever been, and the entire culture was drawn taut between these polarities. This was the world that created the King James Bible (1611). It is the greatest work of English prose ever written.

Author

Adam Nicolson writes a column for The Sunday Telegraph. His books include Sissinghurst, God’s Secretaries, When God Spoke English, Wetland, Life in the Somerset Levels, Perch Hill, Restoration, and Gentry. He is winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and the British Topography Prize and lives on a farm in Sussex.