Nick St Aubyn
Nick St Aubyn is the author of Custom of the County (2010) a story set in the treacherous waters of Tudor Cornwall. He will be appearing with author and journalist Justine Picardie in the Round Room at Port Eliot House to discuss: “Drawing on the fragments of history - the hazards and rewards for the novelist.”
Nicholas is the direct descendant of the Bassets, the Godolphins and the Seyntaubins, the families whom he writes about with such conviction. The family seat is now in St Michael’s Mount, a focal point of the book.
After winning a scholarship to Oxford, Nick’s versatile career led him from downtown Soweto to uptown Manhattan, and from a trading floor in London to a trading estate in Redruth. He spent ten years in Cornwall where he had business and farming ventures and stood for Parliament three times, before later serving as MP for Guildford. He is currently Chairman of the Arab British Centre, a charity to promote cultural awareness.
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