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D J Taylor


(David J Taylor)
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Husband of Rachel Hore

D.J. Taylor is the author of two acclaimed biographies, Thackerary, and Orwell: The Life, which won the Whitbread Biography Prize in 2003. He has written six novels, the most recent being Kept: A Victorian Mystery. He is also well known as a critic and reviewer, and his other books include A Vain Conceit: British Fiction in the 1980s and After the War: the Novel and England since 1945. He is married to the novelist Rachel Hore. They have three sons and live in Norwich, UK.
 


Genres: Young Adult Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
June 2025

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Poppyland
 
Novels
   Great Eastern Land (1986)
   Real Life (1992)
   English Settlement (1996)
   Trespass (1998)
   The Comedy Man (2001)
   Kept (2006)
   Ask Alice (2009)
   At the Chime of a City Clock (2010)
   Derby Day (2011)
   Secondhand Daylight (2012)
   The Windsor Faction (2013)
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Collections
   After Bathing at Baxter's (2012)
   Wrote for Luck (2015)
   Stewkey Blues (2022)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   From the Heart (2014)
   Poppyland (2025)
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Non fiction show
 
Books containing stories by D J Taylor
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Best British Short Stories 2023 (2023)
(Best British Short Stories)
edited by
Nicholas Royle
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Best British Short Stories 2016 (2016)
(Best British Short Stories)
edited by
Nicholas Royle
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A Distant Cry (2002)
Stories from East Anglia
edited by
Peter Tolhurst

Awards
2014 Sidewise Award for Best Long-Form Alternate History : The Windsor Faction

Award nominations
2011 Booker Prize (longlist) : Derby Day


D J Taylor recommends
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Shadow Girls (2022)
Carol Birch
"A terrific evocation of a bygone Manchester girlhood, poignant and creepy by turns, by one of the most under-rated writers in England."
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Mercury Falling (2018)
Robert Edric
"A wonderfully edgy piece of wartime noir."

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