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Derby Day by TAYLOR D J
Category: Fiction
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 the greatest race of the year. All through winter, from London to France, plans have been laid, money exch ...Show more
Georg Jensen Jewelry by TAYLOR D
Category: Fiction | Series: Published in Association with the Bard Graduate Centre for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture
The Danish silversmith Georg Jensen (1866 - 1935) first established a worldwide reputation as a designer of flatware, hollowware, and jewellery in the arts and crafts idiom of the early twentieth century, then went on to become a foremost international designer of elegant and refined silver creations in ...Show more
George Orwell Visions of Dystopia by George Orwell; D. J. Taylor (Foreword by); Richard Bradford (Introductions and notes by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Gothic Fantasy Ser.
Orwell is most well-known for his two famous novels Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, but their dystopian vision was informed by observations of poverty in England (Down and Out in Paris' and London and Road to Wigan Pier), and disillusion with political and national events of the 1930s and 1940s. H ...Show more
Island Story by J. D. Taylor
Category: Fiction
What is life like in England? Island Story weaves history and ideas telling a story of rebellion (think Brexit) and retail parks, migration and inertia, pessimism and disappearing ways of life, and a fiery, unrealized desire for collective belonging and power. Skeptical and inquisitive, Taylor cycled al ...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. 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
Laying Down the Law, 11th edition by R Creyke; D Hamer; P O?Mara; B Smith; T Taylor
Category: Education
Laying Down the Law provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the study of law. Essential foundation topics covered include Australia’s legal system and sources of law while discussion of current issues highlights the context in which our legal system operates and the role and responsibili ...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