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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
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 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
The Pursuit of Italy - A History of a Land, Its Regions and Their Peoples by David Gilmour
Category: History
The "Pursuit of Italy" traces the whole history of the Italian peninsula in a wonderfully readable style, full of well-chosen stories and observations from personal experience, and peopled by many of the great figures of the Italian past, from Cicero and Virgil to Dante and the Medici, from Cavour and V ...Show more
The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their Peoples by David Gilmour
Category: Non-Fiction
A provocative, entertaining account of Italy's diverse riches, its hopes and dreams, its past and presentDid Garibaldi do Italy a disservice when he helped its disparate parts achieve unity? Was the goal of political unification a mistake? The question is asked and answered in a number of ways in "The P ...Show more
WHO ARE YOU: Australian Portraiture by Sophie Gerhard, Joanna Gilmour, Penelope Grist, David Hurlston, Hannah Presley, Beckett Rozentals
Category: Art
WHO ARE YOU: Australian Portraiture is one of the most comprehensive explorations of portraiture undertaken in Australia. Drawn from the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (NGV), and the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra (NPG), the artworks span disciplines and chronologies, ch ...Show more
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