Gore Vidal

Everyone is talking about Myra Breckinridge - and everything you have heard about her is true 'I am Myra Breckinridge, whom no man will ever…

The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, Julian is widely regarded as one of Gore…

A literary cause célèbre when first published in 1948, Gore Vidal's now-classic The City and the Pillar stands as a landmark novel of the gay…

Vidal on Vidal - a great and supremely entertaining writer on a great and endlessly fascinating subject Palimpsest is Gore Vidal's account of the first…

Gore Vidal's classic novel of Aaron Burr - the man who shot Alexander Hamilton. In 1804, Colonel Aaron Burr, Vice-President of the United States, shot…

"I exist to say, 'No, that isn't the way it is,' or 'What you believe to be true is not true for the following reasons.'…

POINT TO POINT NAVIGATION refers to a form of navigation Gore Vidal resorted to as a first mate in the navy during World War II.…

In the tiny Central American republic of Tenango, a place of orchid--scented jungle, crumbling palaces and baroque cathedrals, the rainy season is over and the…

From the poignant realisation as an adult of the cruel brutality of childhood in 'The Robin', man then comes face to face with himself as…

By night the glittering world of Times Square, cinemas, clubs and the brittle, played-out demi-monde . . . by day a wasteland of hollow men,…

The fast and furious hedonistic world of the jet-set commuting between the glamour centres of Europe is the setting for this famous novel by one…

Two Sisters is Gore Vidal's fictional memoir of a love affair with a beautiful set of twins in post-war Paris - a story skilfully interwoven…

Kidnapped and held to ransom by Duke Leopold of Austria after the Third Crusade, Richard the Lion Heart, it is said, was found by his…

Vidal has a fierce, uncontaminated sense of what's right and wrong, and he expresses his most intimate opinions fearlessly' John Simpson, Daily Mail This new…

Continuing what has been dubbed his 'revenge on two hundred years of American history', Gore Vidal locates this novel in Washington. But this is 1917,…

A boat of the army transportation corps fights through the fierce wind of the williwaw, carrying two officers and a chaplain with its crew. Human…

In the hazardous fictional terrain of his historical novels, Gore Vidal is never especially kind to American history in general, or to its icons in…

In the hazardous fictional terrain of his historical novels, Gore Vidal is never especially kind to American history in general, or to its icons in…

When two women tragically perish in a Duluth snowdrift, the one called Edna is reborn in 'Duluth', the popular television series and the one called…

Investigative journalist and aviatrix Teddy, who narrates Gore Vidal's metaphysical thriller, has moulded herself on flying ace Amelia Earhart. Although she's aware that's a bit…

Gore Vidal's new collection of essays shows him still writing at his finest. His comments on the deplorable state of American politics - from Bill…

THE GOLDEN AGE is the final, eponymous novel that brings to an end what Gabriel García Márquez has called 'Gore Vidal's magnificent series of historical…

Vidal writes with ease and grace, and roams through many subjects and genres. He is a master of the historical novel, in which he has…

With the centennial year of the United States as the target of this historical novel, Gore Vidal again mounts a glorious expedition into that grimy…

With the centennial year of the United States as the target of this historical novel, Gore Vidal again mounts a glorious expedition into that grimy…

History is gossip,' says a protagonist in Washington, D.C., 'but the trick is determining which gossip is history.' It is a trick that Gore Vidal…

Here is the story of arguably America's finest hour; of the time when the twentieth century dawned, Queen Victoria died, and America, basking deliciously in…

With the centennial year of the United States as the target of this historical novel, Gore Vidal again mounts a glorious expedition into that grimy…

With the centennial year of the United States as the target of this historical novel, Gore Vidal again mounts a glorious expedition into that grimy…

Here is the story of arguably America's finest hour; of the time when the twentieth century dawned, Queen Victoria died, and America, basking deliciously in…

With the centennial year of the United States as the target of this historical novel, Gore Vidal again mounts a glorious expedition into that grimy…

With the centennial year of the United States as the target of this historical novel, Gore Vidal again mounts a glorious expedition into that grimy…

With the centennial year of the United States as the target of this historical novel, Gore Vidal again mounts a glorious expedition into that grimy…

Good Friday, 1939, and T., a sixteen-year-old schoolboy, arrives at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington. The museum is closed, but T. manages to slip in,…

By the bestselling and celebrated Gore Vidal, a novel about a brilliant and precocious schoolboy whose parents separate when he is young, and whose mother…

A collection of essays taken from 40 years of work by the bestselling and celebrated Gore Vidal Gore Vidal's reputation as America's finest essayist is…

Vidal's historical novel set in the 5th century BC and narrated by Cyrus Spitama, son of a Persian prince and Greek sorceress, grandson of the…

By the bestselling and celebrated Gore Vidal, an irreverent spoof of the New Testament told from the perspective of Saint Timothy as he travels with…

By the bestselling and celebrated Gore Vidal, the story of the creation of a new religion, Cavism, which quickly comes to replace the established but…