Ferdinand Mount
Ferdinand Mount (born 1939) is a British writer, columnist for the Sunday Times and commentator on politics, and Conservative Party politician. He was head of the policy unit in 10 Downing Street in 1982/3, during the time when Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister, and wrote the 1983 Tory general election manifesto. He is regarded as being on the One Nation or 'wet' wing of the party. He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. He is a baronet but does not use the title. He was editor of the Times Literary Supplement from 1991, for 11 years. He has written novels, including a six-volume novel sequence Chronicle of Modern Twilight centred on a low-key character Gus Cotton; the title alludes to the sequence A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight by Henry Williamson. (It is not clear whether Liquidator is now included.)
Works - The theatre of politics (1972)
- The man who rode Ampersand (1975) novel, Chronicle of Modern Twilight (1)
- The clique: A novel of the sixties (1978)
- The subversive family: an alternative history of love and marriage (1982)
- The Practice of Liberty (1986)
- The Selkirk Strip (1987) novel, Chronicle of Modern Twilight (2)
- Of Love and Asthma (1991) novel, Chronicle of Modern Twilight (3), Hawthornden Prize 1992
- Communism (1992) editor
- The British constitution now: recovery or decline? (1992)
- The Recovery of the Constitution (Sovereignty Lectures) (1992)
- Liquidator (1995) novel
- Umbrella: A Pacific Tale (1997) historical novel
- Jem (and Sam) (1999) novel, Chronicle of Modern Twilight (4)
- Fairness (2001) novel, Chronicle of Modern Twilight (5)
- Mind the Gap: Class in Britain Now (2004)
- Heads You Win (2004) novel, Chronicle of Modern Twilight (6)
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