D.J. Taylor

• Jun-2025
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<p>On <cite>Stewkey Blues</cite>: 'In his solid, grounded, entertaining collection of stories, DJ Taylor draws out the mythical qualities of East Anglia's terrain, urban or rural or somewhere marginal in between.' -- <strong>...

• Sep-2023
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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 70s and 80s. He's a man on a mission, dealing with difficu...

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• Mar-2022
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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 blow-in, all of them are reaching uneasy compromises wit...

• Jun-2021
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• Jun-2018
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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 and British music industry. As he navigates the cultural, ...

• Jul-2015
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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 of the dynamic duo Upward & King -- discovers that nostalg...

• Jul-2015
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A screenwriter is about to discover that in life there are no rewrites Martin Benson writes scripts for porn films. He didn't always aspire to be a screenwriter; he once had dreams of becoming a great journalist. But life has a way of interfering...

• Jul-2015
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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 Chell was a financial titan, ruling over a kingdom of pro...

• Jan-2015
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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 sordid old antique dealers to glamorous young writ...

• Dec-2014
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• Sep-2013
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London, 1939: Journalists gather like vultures for the funeral of Wallis Simpson, and a mournful King Edward VIII sits on the throne.... If Wallis Simpson had not died on the operating table in December 1936, Edward VIII would not be King of Engla...

• Sep-2012
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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 Amis exploring the sexual revolution of the 1960s, ...

• Apr-2012
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Nominated for the Man Booker Prize, an exquisite tale of romance and rivalry, gambling and greed, from one of England's finest writers. As the shadows lengthen over the June grass, all England is heading for Epsom Down -- high life and low life, s...

• Mar-2012
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Eighteen tales featuring down-on-their-luck characters whose dreams will never come true, by Man Booker Prize -- long-listed author D. J. Taylor In the vein of Raymond Carver's short prose, these eighteen stories sharply capture ordinary people d...

• Mar-2012
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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 the late nineties. The Iraqis are in Kuwait and...

• Mar-2012
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Autumn 1933, and for once struggling writer James Ross seems to have fallen on his feet. Not only has the Labour Exchange fixed him up with a day-job collecting rents in Soho, but friendly Mr Samuelson is employing him front-of-house in the Toreador ...

• Feb-2012
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Screwed Adventures is a Stoner Fantasy series, intended to stand out as an epic amongst other stoner comedies. The first installment Little Box and the Journey to Planut follows a group of friends that get sweep up in a race to stop an army of alien ...

• Feb-2012
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Screwed Adventures is a Stoner Fantasy series, intended to stand out as an epic amongst other stoner comedies. The first installment Little Box and the Journey to Planut follows a group of friends that get sweep up in a race to stop an army of alien ...

• Apr-2010
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A literary tour-de-force ranging from the American frontier to Edwardian England and the decadent carousing of the Bright Young People of London's jazz age. 1904. A pretty young woman travels apprehensively across the American prairies; on a whim ...

• Apr-2010
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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 sleepless nights spent in the waiting room at King's Cro...

• Feb-2007
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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, Isabel -- who somehow ends up in the home of Ireland's friend James Dixey. A ce...

• Dec-1990
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The characters who populate this novel have only one thing in common, they are all undoubtedly products of the 1990s. They include Lord Trimmer, the superannuated Labour peer, Denise, the fading glamour model and Mrs D'Souza with her hotline to God....

• Nov-1987
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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 with fat, overindulged mice that lies at the western...