David Gilmour

David Gilmour is the author of The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe di Lampedusa, which won the Scottish Arts Council Spring Book Award and the Nelson, Hurst and Marsh Biography Award for 1989. He has also written several acclaimed works of political history, including The Transformation of Spain and Lebanon: The Fractured Country, Cities of Spain and Curzon. He is a contributor to the London Review of Books, the Spectator and the Times Literary Supplement. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he lives in Edinburgh with his wife and four children

Author's Agent:
Gillon Aitken

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Recently published / about to be published:
The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj




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