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A wonderful novel of concealment and subterfuge, sweeping from Kansas to London, from 1904 to 1936, by ...
A fascinating study of a bygone era: the rise and fall of amateur sportsmen
D.J. Taylor is an author, literary critic and book reviewer. He reviews regularly for the Independent and the Sunday Times. Among his published works are the hugely influential and much debated A Vain Conceit: British Fiction in the 1980s, a biographies of Thackeray and George Orwell, and After the War: The Novel and England since 1945. His previous novels include Great Northern Land, Real Life and Kept. He is also the author of a short story collection, After Bathing at Baxters.
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A remarkable history of the 'lost generation' of the 1920s - parties, scandal, Jazz, clashing generations and the dark legacy of war.
Madness, greed, love, obsession, Machiavellian plotting and a great train robbery in a captivating Victorian mystery about the extreme and curious things men do to get - and keep - what they want.
A wonderful novel of concealment and subterfuge, sweeping from Kansas to London, from 1904 to 1936, by the author of Kept - about a woman's rise and fall, the chances she takes and the secret which will ...
A beautiful new edition of DJ Taylor's classic biography on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Thackeray's birth.
A gripping novel of romance and rivalry, gambling and greed, from acclaimed novelist and biographer D.J. Taylor - longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011