Sir William Robert Ferdinand Mount, 3rd Baronet, FRSL (born 2 July 1939), is a British writer, novelist, and columnist for The Sunday Times, as well as a political commentator.
Books in order of publication:
Very Like a Whale (1967), novel
The Theatre of Politics (1972),
The Man Who Rode Ampersand (1975), novel, (Chronicle of Modern Twilight – 1)
The Clique (1978), novel
The Subversive Family: An Alternative History of Love and Marriage (1982)
The Practice of Liberty (1986), novel
The Selkirk Strip (1987), novel, (Chronicle of Modern Twilight – 2)
Of Love and Asthma (1991), novel, (Chronicle of Modern Twilight – 3), Winner of the Hawthornden Prize 1992
Communism: A Times Literary Supplement Companion (1992), editor
The British Constitution Now: Recovery or Decline? (1992)
The Recovery of the Constitution (Sovereignty Lectures) (1992)
Umbrella: A Pacific Tale (1994), novel, (Tales of History and Imagination – 1)
The Liquidator (1995), novel, (Chronicle of Modern Twilight – 4)
Jem (and Sam): A Revenger’s Tale (1999), novel, (Tales of History and Imagination – 2)
Fairness (2001), novel, (Chronicle of Modern Twilight – 5)
Mind the Gap: Class in Britain Now (2004)
Heads You Win (2004), novel, (Chronicle of Modern Twilight – 6)
Private Life 21st Century (2006)
The Condor’s Head (2007), novel
Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes (2009), memoir
Full Circle: How the Classical World Came Back to Us, Simon & Schuster, 2010.
The New Few: Power and Inequality in Britain Now or A Very British Oligarchy (2012)
The Tears of the Rajas: Mutiny, Money, and Marriage in India 1805–1905 (2015)
English Voices: Lives, Landscapes, Laments (2016)
Prime Movers: From Pericles to Gandhi (2018)
Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca (2020)