Product Description: The Tears of the Rajasis a sweeping history of the British in India, seen through the experiences of a single Scottish family. For a century the Lows of Clatto survived mutiny, siege, debt and disease, everywhere from the heat of Madras to the Afghan snows...read more

Product Description: Ferdinand Mount has spent many years writing articles, columns and reviews for prestigious magazines, newspapers and journals. Whether reviewing great published works by some of England's finest authors and poets (both alive and dead) including Kingsley Amis, John Osborne, John le Carre, Rudyard Kipling, E...read more

Product Description: This was supposed to be the era when democracy came into its own, but instead power and wealth in Britain have slowly been consolidated the hands of a small elite, while the rest of the country struggles financially and switches off politically...read more

In this provacative and ruthlessly frank book Ferdinand Mount argues that there is a new class divide in Britain which is just as vicious and hard to get rid of as the old one.

For the final appointment of his long career, senior civil servant Gus Cotton is offered a dead-end posting in Swansea (Dept of Driving Licences). He decides to chuck it and embrace instead the infamous governmental 'package'... only to be rescued from the ritualised humiliations of early retirement by an unexpected job offer...

Aldous 'Gus' Cotton struggles to deal with his notorious father, Harry, who had achieved success as the jockey who rode the legendary Gold Cup winner Ampersand to victory but who now is more interested in carousing, brothels, gambling houses, alcohol, and all other forms of excess. By the author of Fairness. Reprint.

A richly textured and vibrant novel follows two unforgettable characters, Aldous Cotton, an English civil servant with breathing problems and chronic sexual difficulties, and Helen, a serious and naive girl who is determined to lead a morally satisfying life but always finds herself in the most immoral of situations. Reprint.

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The fictional memoirs of Jeremiah Mount, a clerk in Oliver Cromwell's government, describe how, along with co-worker and sometime rival Samuel Pepys, he pursues worldly success and erotic whims in tumultuous seventeenth-century London. Reprint.

George Gordon, cousin to Byron, heir to a desolate Scottish estate, superficially enjoys a brilliant career: he dines at Malmaison with Napoleon and Josephine, excavates the Acropolis, shares a night in a hayloft with Metternich, inherits the Earldom of Aberdeen, marries two beautiful women, becomes Foreign Secretary twice and then ultimately Prime Minister. Yet Lord Aberdeen remains an awkward, tragic figure, increasingly at odds with his times, shattered by repeated bereavements, loathed, abused and eventually driven out of office by his fellow countrymen for his doomed efforts to prevent the Crimean War.

Product Description: British politician and writer, Ferdinand Mount, challenges contemporary beliefs about society and family—including the history of divorce, childcare, and the concept of the nuclear family.In Subversive Family, politician and writer Ferdinand Mount argues that society is shaped by a series of powerful revolutionary movements, the leaders of which, whether they be political ideologues, theologians, feudal lords, or feminist writers, have done their utmost to render the family a subordinate instrument of their purpose but that, in spite of it all, the family endures...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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The giddy rise and giddier fall of Joseph Dudgeon, asthmatic, as recounted by a fellow asthmatic who follows him through his humiliations and betrayals.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Collects fifty-two articles analyzing and commenting on communism from the Russian Revolution to the rise and fall of the Soviet system.