D. J. Taylor has written twelve novels, including Trespass (1998) and Derby Day (2011), both long-listed for the Man-Booker Prize, and, most recently Rock and Roll is Life: The True Story of the Helium Kids by One Who was There (2018). His non-fiction includes Orwell: The Life, which won the 2003 Whitbread Prize for Biography, The Prose Factory: Literary Life in England Since 1918 (2016) and Lost Girls: Love, War and Literature 1939–1951 (2019). He lives in Norwich with his wife, the novelist Rachel Hore.
34 Ebooks von D. J. Taylor
D. J. Taylor: Kept
When Henry Ireland dies unexpectedly from what appears to be a riding accident in August 1863, the failed landowner leaves behind little save his high-strung young widow, Isabelwho somehow ends up in …
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D.J. Taylor: On Nineteen Eighty-Four
The essential backstory to the creation and meaning of one of the most important novels of the twentieth century-and now the twenty-first.Since its publication nearly seventy years ago, George …
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D.J. Taylor: New Book of Snobs
‚Hugely enjoyable‘ AN Wilson, Sunday Times’Thoughtful, entertaining and enjoyable‘ Michael Gove, Book of the Week, The Times Inspired by William Makepeace Thackeray, the first great analyst of …
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D.J. Taylor: Lost Girls
A Times Book of the Year 2019’You should not deny yourself the pleasure of reading it‘ Sunday Times’A remarkable work and an important addition to the extraordinary wartime history of literary …
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D.J. Taylor: ‚Rock and Roll is Life‘
‚Taylor’s magnificent new novel is Spinal Tap for literary types . . . thoroughly entertaining, knowledgeable romp through the fear and loathing of rock’s golden age. Beautifully written and …
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D.J. Taylor: What You Didn’t Miss
Since the late 1990s, Private Eye’s ‚What You Didn’t Miss‘ column has trained a vigilant lens on some of the great literary reputations of our age. Highlights of this bumper selection include Martin …
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D.J. Taylor: At the Chime of a City Clock
Summer 1931 in seedy Bayswater and James Ross is on his uppers. An aspiring writer whose stories nobody will buy (‚It’s the slump‘), with a landlady harassing him for unpaid rent and occasional …
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D.J. Taylor: Wrote For Luck
A new collection from one of the UK’s most celebrated biographers, novelists, critics – and, as these stories show, a quite brilliant artist. Wrote For Luck ranges from North Norfolk to Chicago, from …
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D J Taylor: Bright Young People
Bright Young People/ Making the most of our youth/ They talk in the Press of our social success/ But quite the reverse is the truth. [Noel Coward] The Bright Young People were one of the most extraor …
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D J Taylor: Kept
A stuffed bear, a pet mouse, fraud and felony on the streets of London, and strange goings-on in the fens… Full of suspense and teeming with life, Kept is a Victorian mystery about the curious thin …
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€8.99
D J Taylor: On The Corinthian Spirit
In January 1929, before 20, 000 spectators, Norwich City of the Third Division South went down 0-5 in the third round of the FA Cup to an amateur side composed of ex-public school boys who disdained …
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D J Taylor: Ask Alice
Glamorous Alice Keach is one of 1930s London’s foremost hostesses. Despite humble American origins, she has secured her place in high society through marriage to one of England’s wealthiest …
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D J Taylor: Orwell
Orwell has become one of the most potent and symbolic figures in western political thought. Even the adjective “Orwellian“ is now a byword for a particular way of thinking about life, literature an …
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€11.99
D J Taylor: Derby Day
It’s Derby Day and all of England is heading for the Epsom Downs. Society beauties rub shoulders with Whitechapel street girls, as every class of society gathers with high hopes and taut nerves for …
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D J Taylor: Thackeray
Vanity Fair, published in serial parts in 1847-8, made William Makepeace Thackeray famous ‚all but at the top of the tree‘, he told his mother, ‚and having a great fight up there with Dickens‘. …
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€12.99
D J Taylor: Windsor Faction
Terrific Daily Mail Tremendous Guardian Page-turning The Times Gripping Daily Telegraph Autumn 1939. In an alternative world, where Edward VIII still sits on the throne, storm clouds gather over …
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D J Taylor: Prose Factory
An entertaining history of literary life Nicholas Shakespeare, Daily Telegraph Spanning a century of literary history, from the pitched battles fought between Eliot-era modernists and Georgian …
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D. J. Taylor: Trespass
A wanderer struggles to understand his uncle’s downfall six years after a financial catastrophe George Chell has never met a man as witty, as charming, or as brilliant as his uncle. Edward …
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D. J. Taylor: Orwell
Winner of the Whitbread Biography Award: A “profoundly moving [and] definitive” portrait of George Orwell, author of 1984 and larger-than-life literary genius (The Daily Telegraph). It …
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D. J. Taylor: Thackeray
A rich and evocative portrait of one of the greatest authors of Victorian England Who was William Makepeace Thackeray? Was he the wealthy dilettante who came to London in the 1830s and squandered his …
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D. J. Taylor: Great Eastern Land
Past and present collide for a man on a mission to document a history that may or may not exist, in this ingenious novel by the acclaimed author of Derby Day Dr. Feelgood’s is a brothel overrun …
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D. J. Taylor: English Settlement
A thirty-something, would-be master of the universe tries to reinvent himself in London in this hip and hilarious novel about ambition, family, missed connections, and Anglo-American relations It is …
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D. J. Taylor: After Bathing at Baxters
Eighteen tales featuring down-on-their-luck characters whose dreams will never come true, by Man Booker Prizelong-listed author D. J. Taylor In the vein of Raymond Carver’s short prose, these …
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D. J. Taylor: Comedy Man
An entertainer looks back on his life in this novel based on the rise and fall of a famous British comedy team From the vantage point of late middle age, Edward “Ted” King—one half …
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€3.71
George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four
A new edition of Orwell’s timeless dystopian classic, introduced and annotated by his biographer, D.J. Taylor Since its first publication in 1949, Orwell’s devastating expose of the totalitarian mind …
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€3.99
George Orwell: Animal Farm
A new edition of Orwell’s savage satire of the Soviet Revolution, introduced and annotated by his biographer, D.J. Taylor First published in 1945, just as the allied forces had begun to parcel up the …
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€3.99
D. J. Taylor: Stewkey Blues
Some of the characters in Stewkey Blues have lived in Norfolk all their lives. Others are short-term residents or passage migrants. Whether young or old, self-confident or ground-down, local or …
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George Orwell: Coming Up For Air
A new edition of Orwell’s elegiac fourth novel, introduced and annotated by his biographer, D.J. Taylor First published in 1939 and dominated by the shadow of the Second World War, Coming up for Air …
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George Orwell: Keep the Aspidistra Flying
A new edition of Orwell’s end-of-tether third novel, introduced and annotated by his biographer, D.J. Taylor First published in 1936, and drawing on Orwell’s own experiences of working in a Hampstead …
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D.J. Taylor: Orwell
Over seventy years since his premature death, George Orwell (1903-50) has become one of the most significant figures in western literature. His two dystopian masterpieces, Animal Farm (1945) and …
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George Orwell: Clergyman’s Daughter
A new edition of Orwell’s starkly realistic second novel, introduced and annotated by his biographer, D. J. Taylor First published in 1935, when Orwell was struggling to establish himself as a …
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George Orwell: Burmese Days
A new edition of Orwell’s debut novel, introduced and annotated by his biographer, D. J. Taylor First published in 1934, and a bitter souvenir of Orwell’s time as a servant of the British Raj, …
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D.J. Taylor: Rock and Roll is Life: Part I
Ever wondered about the whirlwind world of the 60s music scene?
Our protagonist, Nicholas Du Pont, a British expatriate, finds himself tangled in the vibrant vortex of the American an …
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D.J. Taylor: Flame Music: Rock and Roll is Life: Part II
Ready to rock and roll through the tumultuous times of the music industry?
Our protagonist, Nick Du Pont, is a savvy manager navigating the highs and lows of the music scene in the 70 …
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