Ferdinand Mount is a reviewer, influential collumnist and political commentator. He has written for the Spectator, the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Times, and was editor of The Times Literary Supplement from 1991 to 2003. He was awarded the Hawthornden Prize for Of Love and Asthma (Vintage), the first of the Chronicle of Modern Twilight Series, and has since written Heads You Win, the bestselling memoir Cold Cream and, most recently, The New Few: A Very British Oligarchy. He lives in London.
This is a novel that wears its learning lightly. The extensive
research is woven seamlessly into the plot and illuminates the
setting
*Independent*
This is a marvellously vivid and enterataining evocation of
Cromwellian and Restoration England. Mount paints from a rich
palette, but the brushwork is stylishly economical... When is a
historical novel not a historical novel? When it is written by
Ferdinand Mount. He is in danger of giving the genre a good
name'
*The Times*
The story smoothly takes in the Dutch wars, the Plague and Fire...
It includes hellish episodes in a groaning Bedlam, as well as
sylvan scenes of sport and the superior delights of the
metropolis... Mount gives JEM a fluent, allusive prose with a
period flavour that avoids pastiche...vivid...powerful
*Sunday Times*
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