D.J.Taylor is a novelist, critic and acclaimed biographer of William Thackeray and George Orwell (both available in paperback). His Orwell: The Life won the Whitbread Biography of the year for 2003. His most recent books are the Victorian novel Kept: A Victorian Mystery (Chatto, 2006) and The Corinthian Spirit: on the decline of Amateurism in Sport (Yellow Jersey, 2006). He is married with three children and lives in Norwich.
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Henry Green: Nothing, Doting, Blindness
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY D. J. TAYLORThese three brilliant novels span Henry Green’s career as a novelist and display his unique talents as a writer. Nothing is a tale of the merry-go-round of love, m …
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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 extraord …
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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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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 bachelors …
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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 and …
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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 t …
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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’. Behin …
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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 Euro …
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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 tradit …
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