Windsor Faction

D.J. Taylor's novels include English Settlement, which won a Grinzane Cavour Prize, Trespass and Derby Day, both of which were long-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and Kept: A Victorian Mystery, a Publishers’ Weekly Book of the Year. His other books include After the War: The Novel and England Since 1945, Thackeray, Orwell: The Life, which won the 2003 Whitbread Biography Prize, and Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918-1940. He lives in Norwich with his wife, the novelist Rachel Hore, and their three sons.‘A writer of formidable accomplishment’ Washington Post‘Taylor is marking out a territory as distinct and disturbing as Greeneland, with the same imperative towards moral inquisition and a flatlands melancholy that is all his own’ Hilary Mantel, Sunday Times‘Taylor is a felicitous, intelligent writer’ Herald

"Compulsively enjoyable" Independent "A tense phoney-war thriller, as evocative in its period representations as it is compelling in its denouement" Mail on Sunday "With its meticulous period detail and its dissection of the English class system at work, this new novel from the author of the highly accomplished Derby Day proves that good historical fiction does not have to take place in a past that actually happened" -- Nick Rennison Sunday Times "It is much harder to show historical change occurring through incremental creep rather than sudden swerves of direction. That DJ Taylor's novel achieves this so well makes in an unusually smart and subtle addition to the genre... Gripping entertainment" -- Robert Douglas-Fairhurst Daily Telegraph "A splendid "what if" thriller... Terrific" Daily Mail