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A Thing You'll Never Do by David Gilmour
Category: Fiction
When his neighbor asks how he acquired a signed copy of Jimmy Carter's memoir, Roman begins not with his father, the much-celebrated radio broadcaster to whom the book is inscribed, but with a young musician he met decades earlier, when he was a middle-aged and not quite-talented-enough professional vio ...Show more
Curzon - Imperial Statesman by David Gilmour
Category: Biography
"Elegant biography . . . a fast-moving, entertaining, and finely written story." --Simon Schama, The New YorkerGeorge Nathaniel Curzon's controversial life in public service stretched from the high noon of his country's empire to the traumatized years following World War I. As viceroy of India under Qu ...Show more
Curzon: Imperial Statesman by David Gilmour
Category: Biography
'A fast-moving, entertaining and finely written story' Simon Schama 'Masterly ... a remarkable portrait of a brilliant complex and tragic genius' William Dalrymple, Los Angeles Times George Nathaniel Curzon's controversial life in public service stretched from the high noon of the British Empire to the ...Show more
Ruling Caste, The by David Gilmour
Category: History
Examines the structure of power: Magistrates and Judges, Residents and Political Agents, Lieutenant-Governors and Members of the Viceroy's Council. This work traces their lives from recruitment to retirement, from jungle to Government House, from a bungalow in Burma to a residency in Rajputana. It descr ...Show more
The British in India - A Social History of the Raj by David Gilmour
Category: History
A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN, TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR The British in this book lived in India from shortly after the reign of Elizabeth I until well into the reign of Elizabeth II. Who were they? What drove these men and women to risk their lives on long voyages down the Atlantic and ...Show more
The British in India - Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience by David Gilmour
Category: History
The British in this book lived in India from shortly after the reign of Elizabeth I until well into the reign of Elizabeth II. Who were they? What drove these men and women to risk their lives on long voyages down the Atlantic and across the Indian Ocean or later via the Suez Canal? And when they got to ...Show more
The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience by David Gilmour
Category: History
A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN, TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR The British in this book lived in India from shortly after the reign of Elizabeth I until well into the reign of Elizabeth II. Who were they? What drove these men and women to risk their lives on long voyages down the Atlantic and ...Show more
The Film Club by David Gilmour
Category: Fiction
It was an unconventional deal: Jesse could leave school, sleep all day, not work, not pay rent - but he had to watch three films a week...of his father's choosing. Week by week, side by side, father and son watch the world's best (and occasionally worst) films - from "True Romance" to "Chunking Express" ...Show more
The Film Club - No School. No Work ... Just Three Films a Week by David Gilmour
Category: Film & Tv
Jesse didn't want to go to school anymore. After much deliberation, his father offers him an unconventional deal: he can drop out, sleep all day, not work, not pay rent, but on one condition - that he watches three films a week, of his father's choosing. What follows is an unusual journey as week by wee ...Show more
The Last Leopard by David Gilmour
Category: Biography
David Gilmour's biography of Giuseppe di Lampedusa unearths the life story of the creator of "The Leopard", one of the great novels of the twentieth century. A book whose imagery, once tasted, haunts the reader forever. "The Leopard" describes the golden era of the nineteenth-century Sicily in all its s ...Show more
The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling by David Gilmour
Category: Biography
'Superb, beautifully written, touching and occasionally very funny' Andrew Roberts David Gilmour's superb biography of Rudyard Kipling is the first to show how the life and work of the great writer mirrored the trajectory of the British Empire, from its zenith to its final decades. His famous poem ' ...Show more