Books by David Gilmour

David Gilmour is one of Britain's most admired and accomplished historical writers and biographers. He is the author of The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling (Elizabeth Longford Prize), The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj and the acclaimed The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience. His other works include The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, its Regions and their Peoples, The Last Leopard, a biography of Giuseppe di Lampedusa (Marsh Biography Award) as well as several books on the modern history of Spain and the Middle East. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a former Research Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford.