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Ferdinand Mount
Ferdinand Mount was born in 1939, the son of a steeplechase jockey, and brought up on Salisbury Plain. After being educated at Eton and Oxford, he made various false starts as a ch...view moreFerdinand Mount was born in 1939, the son of a steeplechase jockey, and brought up on Salisbury Plain. After being educated at Eton and Oxford, he made various false starts as a children's nanny, a gossip columnist, bagman to Selwyn Lloyd, and leader-writer on the doomed Daily Sketch. He later surfaced, slightly to his surprise and everyone else's, as head of Margaret Thatcher's Policy Unit and later editor of The Times Literary Supplement. He is married with three children and three grandchildren and has lived in Islington for half his life. Apart from political columns and essays, he has written a six-volume series of novels, A Chronicle of Modern Twilight, which began with The Man Who Rode Ampersand, based on his father's racing life, and included Of Love And Asthma (he is a temporarily retired asthmatic), which won the Hawthornden Prize for 1992. He also writes what he calls Tales of History and Imagination, including Umbrella, which the historian Niall Ferguson called 'quite simply the best historical novel in years'. His most recent titles for Bloomsbury Continuum include Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca and the novel Making Nice.view less
Books by Ferdinand Mount
English Voices: Lives, Landscapes, Laments The Tears of the Rajas: Mutiny, Money and Marriage in India 1805-1905 Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Prime Movers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Subversive Family Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMaking Nice Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings