Author: D.J. Taylor

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 …

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 London …

‘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 consiste …

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 …

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 sleep …