He was editor of the Times Literary Supplement from 1991, for 11 years.
He has written novels, including a six-volume novel sequenceChronicle of Modern Twilight centred on a low-key character Gus Cotton; the title alludes to the sequence A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight by Henry Williamson. (It is not clear whether Liquidator is now included.)
Works
The theatre of politics (1972)
The man who rode Ampersand (1975) novel, Chronicle of Modern Twilight (1)
The clique: A novel of the sixties (1978)
The subversive family: an alternative history of love and marriage (1982)
The Practice of Liberty (1986)
The Selkirk Strip (1987) novel, Chronicle of Modern Twilight (2)
Of Love and Asthma (1991) novel, Chronicle of Modern Twilight (3), Hawthornden Prize 1992
Communism (1992) editor
The British constitution now: recovery or decline? (1992)
The Recovery of the Constitution (Sovereignty Lectures) (1992)
Liquidator (1995) novel
Umbrella: A Pacific Tale (1997) historical novel
Jem (and Sam) (1999) novel, Chronicle of Modern Twilight (4)
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)
Mount believes that in the years (roughly) between 1800 and 1940 the British lower classes built a remarkable civilisation and then the upper classes destroyed it.
Mount's recommendations, though, seem to be anything but: 'Only a wholehearted, even reckless opening up of genuine power to the bottom classes is likely to improve their self-esteem,' he writes.
Mount is almost entirely silent on the subject of ethnicity, which has had a profound impact on class in Britain since the 1950s.
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