Sir David Gilmour, Bt, FRSL

Career: writer; Alistair Horne fell St Antony's Coll Oxford 1996-97; FRSL

Books and Publications: Dispossessed: The Ordeal of The Palestinians 1917-80 (1980), Lebanon: The Fractured Country (1983), The Transformation of Spain: From Franco to the Constitutional Monarchy (1985), The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe di Lampedusa (1988), The Hungry Generations (1991), Cities of Spain (1992), Curzon (1994, Duff Cooper Prize), The French and their Revolution (ed, 1998), Paris and Elsewhere (ed, 1998), The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling (2002, Elizabeth Longford Prize), The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj (2005), The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, its Regions and their Peoples (2011)