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 the bestselling memoir Cold Cream and, most recently, The New Few: A Very British Oligarchy. He lives in London.

"Sophisticated comedy-what gives it its distinction is the quality of observation and the unusual marriage of high spirits with melancholy awareness of the passing of time" Scotsman "Irresistible" Literary Review "An acute observer of manners and styles" Independent "Here is an imagination that effortlessly brings character after character to valiant, preposterous, malevolent or desperate life. Here is a writer who deserves to be far more widely read" Spectator "It has a lightness, a breadth... an impressive energy and a humane comedy... Entertaining and affecting" Times Literary Supplement

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 the bestselling memoir Cold Cream and, most recently, The New Few: A Very British Oligarchy. He lives in London.

"Sophisticated comedy-what gives it its distinction is the quality of observation and the unusual marriage of high spirits with melancholy awareness of the passing of time" Scotsman "Irresistible" Literary Review "An acute observer of manners and styles" Independent "Here is an imagination that effortlessly brings character after character to valiant, preposterous, malevolent or desperate life. Here is a writer who deserves to be far more widely read" Spectator "It has a lightness, a breadth... an impressive energy and a humane comedy... Entertaining and affecting" Times Literary Supplement