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  • After Bathing at Baxters

    Stories

    by D. J. Taylor ...
    Eighteen tales featuring down-on-their-luck characters whose dreams will never come true, by Man Booker Prize–long-listed author D. J. TaylorIn the vein of Raymond Carver's short prose, these eighteen stories sharply capture ordinary people desperate to escape their dead-end lives as they grapple with failure, disappointment, and missed chances. In "Dreams of Leaving," Harlem pornographer Fuchs ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Thackeray

    The Life of a Literary Man

    by D. J. Taylor ...
    A rich and evocative portrait of one of the greatest authors of Victorian EnglandWho was William Makepeace Thackeray? Was he the wealthy dilettante who came to London in the 1830s and squandered his fortune on newspapers? Was he the impoverished freelance author of the 1840s who scrapped for every penny he could get? Or was he the great writer who published Vanity Fair in 1847, skewering Victorian ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The King Under the Mountain

    In Search of J. R. R. Tolkien

    by D. J. Taylor ...
    A sparkling exploration of the myths that J. R. R. Tolkien created around himself, examining the social and political worlds that surrounded the creator of Middle-Earth, by award-winning biographer D. J. Taylor.In the past seven decades J.R.R. Tolkien’s major works—The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion—have sold over half a billion copies, been made into prodigiously successful ... Read more

    $19.95 USD

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  • Orwell

    The New Life

    by D. J. Taylor ...
    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 century’s greatest authors. This is the first twenty-first-century biography on George Orwell, with ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Comedy Man

    A Novel

    by D. J. Taylor ...
    An entertainer looks back on his life in this novel based on the rise and fall of a famous British comedy teamFrom the vantage point of late middle age, Edward "Ted" King—one half of the dynamic duo Upward & King—discovers that nostalgia isn't what it used to be. Ted met Arthur Upward in Britain's National Service. They started out doing gigs at Soho cabarets, and in the mid-sixties, they took ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On Nineteen Eighty-Four

    A Biography of George Orwell's Masterpiece

    by D.J. Taylor ...
    Series series Books About Books
    The essential backstory to the creation and meaning of one of the most important novels of the twentieth century—and now the twenty-first.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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bright Young People

    The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age

    by D. J. Taylor ...
    "Jampacked and delicious, crammed with a cast of selfish, feckless, darling, talented, almost terminally eccentric, good-looking men and women." —Carolyn See, The Washington PostBefore the media circus of Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, and our modern obsession with celebrity, there were the Bright Young People, a voraciously pleasure-seeking band of bohemian party-givers and blue-blooded socialites ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Stewkey Blues

    Stories

    by D. J. Taylor ...
    Fiction Category Winner in the 2022 East Anglian Book AwardsSome 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 with the world they inhabit and the landscape in which that life takes place. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • At the Chime of a City Clock

    by D.J. Taylor ...
    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 Cross Station, he is reduced to selling carpet-cleaning lotion door-to-door. His prospects brighten when he meets the glamorous Suzi ('the red hair and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Windsor Faction

    by D.J. Taylor ...
    If Wallis Simpson had not died on the operating table in December 1936, Edward VIII would not have been King of England three years later. He would have abdicated for “the woman he loves,” but now, the throne beckons. If Henry Bannister’s car had not careened off the Colombo back-road in the summer before the war, Cynthia Kirkpatrick would never have found out about The Faction.It is autumn 1939, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Kept

    A Novel

    by D. J. Taylor ...

    $6.99 USD

  • Flame Music: Rock and Roll is Life: Part II

    The True Story of Resurgam Records by One Who Was There

    by D.J. Taylor ...
    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 difficult artists, and battling to get his bands played on popular radio shows.Can Nick sign the unpredictable band 'The Flame Throwers' and manage their wild ways? Will ... Read more

    $16.99 USD