Nicholas Best is a British author of Anglo-Irish origin. He grew up in
Kenya and was educated there and in England and at
Trinity College, Dublin. He served with the
Grenadier Guards in
Windsor and
Belize and worked in London as a journalist before becoming a full-time author.
His early books include Happy Valley: The story of the English in Kenya, and Where were you at Waterloo?, a satirical novel of army life. His second novel, Tennis and the Masai,[1] was later serialised on BBC Radio 4. It told the story of a Kenya
prep school similar to Best's own,[2] where the cricket score arrived by carrier pigeon and runaway boys were hunted down with spearmen and tracker dogs.
Published works
Happy Valley: The story of the English in Kenya (
Secker and Warburg, 1979)