'An impeccably researched and written biography' -- Sunday Telegraph on CURZON 'One of the best biographies of our time ! a book of outstanding excellence' -- New Statesman on CURZON 'A biography as definitive as such a work can ever be ! a splendid book' -- Evening Standard on CURZON 'A magnificent work ! entirely convincing in its evocation of Curzon's extraordinary character. It is, in short, the definitive life' -- Observer on CURZON 'An absorbing, witty and intelligent biography ! David Gilmour's mix of erudition, hard analysis and quizzical amusement will give this volume a unique place on the ever more crowded shelves of political biography' -- Independent on Sunday on CURZON 'A superb short biography ! a beautifully written, touching and occasionally very funny book' -- Daily Mail on KIPLING 'A fine, fair and generous work ! Gilmour's celebrated life of Curzon demonstrated his mastery of imperial nuance and esoteric character, and he brings to this book just the right combination of empathy, distaste and fastidious detachment' -- New Statesman on KIPLING 'The best Kipling biography yet written ! Gilmour's account of this driven man shines with intelligence' -- Scotsman on KIPLING 'A vivid insight into sometimes frustrating lives in an unkind climate.' -- Sunday Herald 20051023 'The Ruling Caste" is elegantly written, with the tender touch of a man who cares about his subject ! a balanced overall account of the era.' -- Traveller 20051106 'Absorbing...rich in detail and also revisionist in its undertones' -- Financial Times, Edward Luce 20051203 'Outstanding' -- Sunday Telegraph/Seven, Anne Chisholm 20051204 'Beuatifully written and endlessly diverting' -- TLS, Roy Foster 20051202 'Extensively researched and eminently readable' -- The Tablet, David Goodall 20051119 'Engaging...brings to life civilians of every stripe' -- The Economist 20051112 'Masterly and fascinating ! Gilmour has the happy knack of being able to combine the precision of an academic ! with the narrative historian's eye for human anecdote' -- The Sunday Times 20050911 'Quite exceptional ! a joy to read ! an enthralling and exhaustively researched survey' -- Literary Review 20050901 'Full and satisfying ... everything is here, in what will replace Philip Mason's The Men Who Ruled India" as the definitive book' -- New Statesman 20050919 'An excellent book ! authoritative and scholarly ! yet overflowing with excellent jokes and vignettes of eccentricity'-- Max Hastings -- Sunday Telegraph 20050925 'A detailed and balanced account, in which scholarship and good sense provide a counterbalance to transatlantic posturing ! lucid, witty and extremely well-written' -- Daily Telegraph 20050924 'Gilmour is the perfect companion to Victorian India -- shrewd, funny, always a joy to read. He writes lean, elegant prose and wears his learning lightly -- the book entertains as much as it instructs ... In David Gilmour, the British in India have at last found the historian they deserve. This is a marvellous book' -- The Spectator 20050924 'Based on stunningly exhaustive research ... and written with tremendous wit, style and sense of place, Gilmour's book is a masterful account of British life in India' -- Evening Standard 20050919 'Compelling, well researched, convincingly presented' -- Herald 20051124 'Written with tremendous wit, style and sense of place, Gilmour's book is a masterful account of life in India ! popular history at its best' -- Dominic Sandbrook, The Scotsman 20051001 'Even-handed, carefully researched and elegantly written' -- TLS, Peter Parker 20051202 'Elegant and thorough examination of British imperialists in India' -- Daily Telegraph, Dominic Sandbrook 20051203 'His approach...raises him above the neo-imperialist/ anti-imperialist fray; he is as conscientious and impartial about the people he describes as the best civilians aspired to be' -- Daily Mail, Lucy Moore 20051209
