Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes

Ferdinand Mount

ISBN 10: 0747596476 / ISBN 13: 9780747596479

Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2009

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A pitch-perfect memoir, brilliantly funny, wise and moving, of family, friends and political life over the last sixty years

Informazioni sull'autore: Ferdinand Mount was born in 1939, the son of a steeplechase jockey, and brought up on Salisbury Plain. After being educated at Eton and Oxford, he made various false starts as a children's nanny, a gossip columnist, bagman to Selwyn Lloyd, and leader-writer on the doomed Daily Sketch. He later surfaced, slightly to his surprise and everyone else's, as head of Margaret Thatcher's Policy Unit and later editor of the Times Literary Supplement. He is married with three children and two grandchildren and has lived in Islington for half his life. Apart from political columns and essays, he has written a six-volume series of novels, A Chronicle of Modern Twilight, which began with The Man Who Rode Ampersand, based on his father's racing life, and included Of Love And Asthma (he is a temporarily retired asthmatic), which won the Hawthornden Prize for 1992. He also writes what he calls Tales of History and Imagination, including Umbrella, which the historian Niall Ferguson called 'quite simply the best historical novel in years'.

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Titolo: Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes
Casa editrice: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Data di pubblicazione: 2009
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Good
Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket