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Kept by D. J. Taylor
Category: Fiction
Egg-stealing in the Scottish highlands, fraud and felony on the streets of London, and strange goings-on in the fens. Captivating and ingenious, full of suspense and teeming with life, Kept is a Victorian mystery about the extreme and curious things men do to get what they want. August 1863. Henry Irela ...Show more
Kept by D. J. Taylor
Category: Fiction
Egg-stealing in the Scottish highlands, fraud and felony on the streets of London, and strange goings-on in the fens. Captivating and ingenious, full of suspense and teeming with life, Kept is a Victorian mystery about the extreme and curious things men do to get what they want. It is August, 186 ...Show more
Lost Girls - Love, War and Literature: 1939-51 by D. J. Taylor
Category: History
The 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' Literary Review Who were the Lost Girls? At least a dozen or so young women at large in Blitz-er ...Show more
On 1984 - A Biography by D J Taylor
Category: Languages and Reference
Since its publication nearly seventy years ago, George Orwell's 1984 has been regarded as one of the most influential novels of the modern age. Politicians have testified to its influence on their intellectual identities, rock musicians have made records about it, TV viewers watch a reality show named f ...Show more
On Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Biography of George Orwell’s Masterpiece by D.J. Taylor
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Books about Bks.
From the author of the definitive biography of George Orwell, a captivating account of the origin and enduring power of his landmark dystopian novel Since its publication nearly 70 years ago, George Orwell’s 1984 has been regarded as one of the most influential novels of the modern age. Politicians have ...Show more
Orwell: The Life by D.J. Taylor
Category: Biography Memoir
Despite his iconic status, Orwell (born Eric Blair) remains an enigma - a passionate democratic socialist steeped in the worse illusions of his Edwardian boyhood, a bitter critic of totalitarianism who concealed a pronounced authoritarian streak and a supporter of social equality who promptly put his ad ...Show more
Orwell: The Life by D.J. Taylor
Category: Biography Memoir
Winner of the Whitbread Biography Award 2003. "Taylor's book has the unmistakeable depth of flavour that comes from long, slow, careful cooking...pithy and fascinating" Jan Dalley, Financial Times
Orwell The New Life by D.J. Taylor
Category: Biography Memoir
A fascinating exploration of George Orwell--and his body of work--by an award-winning Orwellian biographer and scholar, presenting the author anew to twenty-first-century readers. We find ourselves in an era when the moment is ripe for a reevaluation of the life and the works of one of the twentieth ...Show more
Orwell: The New Life by D.J. Taylor
Category: General Biography
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 Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) have together sold over 40 million copies. Even now, he continues to exert a deci ...Show more
Rock and Roll Is Life: The True Story of the Helium Kids by One Who Was There by D. J. Taylor
Category: Fiction
'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 consistently funny, it is also a poignant account of one man's search for his own identity' Mail on Sunday 'A da ...Show more
Secondhand Daylight by D.J. Taylor
Category: Fiction
It's 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 night-club. Even his melancholy love-life is look ...Show more