David Gilmour, Author . Counterpoint $24 (224p) ISBN 978-1-58243-203-8
The "whack, whack, whack" of the flapping flag on his neighbor's property keeps middle-aged college academic Darius Halloway awake at night. So he sneaks out in darkness and cuts the flag's rope. When another neighbor's dogs...
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David Gilmour, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $26 (368p) ISBN 978-0-374-18702-6
Gilmour attempts the difficult task of distinguishing Kipling's (1865–1936) concepts of English patriotism and the civilizing mission of the British empire from those of his jingoistic contemporaries. This biography is liveliest when...
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David Gilmour, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $45 (728p) ISBN 978-0-374-13356-6
Gilmour—who learned much about Lord Curzon from writing a recent biography of Curzon's cousin, Rudyard Kipling—has produced an absorbing life, 200 pages longer than Kenneth Rose's stylish but misshapen Superior Person. Curzon...
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David Gilmour, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $26 (281p) ISBN 978-0-374-28354-4
How much do we really know about the lives of the British in imperial India? Gilmour's deftly organized, encyclopedic account of the day-to-day existence of the members of the Indian Civil Service (ICS) upends the view of the British rulers as...
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David Gilmour, Author Quartet Books (UK) $0 (322p) ISBN 978-0-7043-2461-9
For nearly 40 years, General Franco wielded autocratic rule in Spain, denying basic rights and keeping opponents in check. In this lucid, informative study, British journalist Gilmour documents that Spain's recent, remarkable transformationfrom...
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David Gilmour, Author Trafalgar Square Publishing $23.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-85619-069-5
A moody, distraught Scottish laird and his wife, a leftist hippie from Brooklyn, are as unhappy a couple as they are unlikely in this powerful novel laced with lilting prose and the wild beauty of the Scottish countryside. Hugh Gordon, who inherits...
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David Gilmour. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30 (480p) ISBN 978-0-374-28316-2
By 1861, the Kingdom of Italy was formally proclaimed, and it included the territories of Parma, Modena, Tuscany, most of Lombardy, most of the Papal States, and the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Yet, as acclaimed historian Gilmour points out in this
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David Gilmour. HarperCollins Canada/Patrick Crean Editions (HarperCollins Canada, Canadian dist.), C$23.99 (185p) ISBN 978-1-44342-370-0
In the latest novel by prominent Canadian author Gilmour (A Perfect Night to Go to China won a 2005 Governor-General's award) the never-named narrator spends a Saturday evening and night with his half-sister Sally, his older sibling by 15 years....
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David Gilmour, Author, Rebecca Saletan, Editor Random House (NY) $19 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-40396-8
Continually hung over from booze and valium, Bix, a 40-ish political speechwriter in Toronto, obsessively lusts after ``scruffy,'' ``green-eyed,'' 19-year-old Holly Briggs, who sells jewelry on commission. The latent possibilities in this plot are...
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David Gilmour, Author, Erroll McDonald, Editor Pantheon Books $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-40183-4
At age 47 Giuseppe Tomasi, prince of Lampedusa (1896-1957), still slept in the bedrom where he had been born. The abnormally taciturn recluse, who mined the history of his Sicilian aristocratic family in its ruinous decline for his classic novel The
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David Gilmour, Author . Hachette/Twelve $21.99 (225p) ISBN 978-0-446-19929-2
In this poignant and witty memoir, Canadian novelist Gilmour (A Perfect Night to Go to China
) grapples with his decision to allow his teenage son, Jesse, to leave school in the 10th grade provided he promises to watch three movies a week with his...
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