Fairness: A Chronicle of Modern Twilight

First edition. Royal 8vo. Pp. [viii], 306. Black cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine.

Inscribed by Author to title page.

Longlisted for the 2001 Man Booker Prize. Fifth in the Chronicle of Modern Twilight series of novels, which include The Man Who Rode Ampersand (1975), and Of Love and Asthma (1991), comprising the autobiography of the fictional Aldous (Gus) Cotton, a civil servant with breathing problems and chronic sexual difficulties.

A former director of the Number 10 Policy Unit, under Margaret Thatcher, Mount was editor of the Times Literary Supplement in the 1990s, since when he has served as a columnist for both The Sunday Times and The Telegraph. He writes regularly for the London Review of Books. "He has painted with infinite bravura a picture of an amateur jockey of the last generation." –Daily Mail