David Taylor

@djtaylorwriter

Writer, critic, author of 12 novels, assorted non-fiction. New Orwell biography in the works. New short story collection due in 2022. Avid Norwich City fan.

Norwich, UK
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  1. 5 hours ago

    Congrats to Cathal Coughlan on release of 'Song of Co-Aklan' - best thing I've heard so far this year. 'Time will erase us if we yield/Owl in the Parlour, orders sealed...'

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  2. Mar 17

    Wonderful to see this photo of Olivier Bell to whom Orwell, on their second or third meeting, addressed the immortal words 'Do you think you could take care of me?'

    A bit late to the party, but here is one of my favourite photos of my lovely mother Olivier and me. It was taken for an article in @houseandgardenuk many years ago at The Dower House. She died almost 3 years ago but is alive in many people’s memories, not least my own.
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  3. Mar 17

    Hm. Sat in Kensington flat. Wrote books. Sometimes went out for a bit. Wrote some more books.

    Claxon!
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  4. Mar 17

    I've had some incongruous requests in my time, but a recently filed lengthy essay on Hawkwind, Michael Moorcock and the '70s underground for the must be the best yet. All down to supremely enlighted , who knows his counter-cultural onions.

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  5. Mar 14

    Very pleased to gave taken part in last night's excellent doc on the idea of a 'common culture', fronted by inestimable Lynsey Hanley and Michael Riley and superbly produced by Simon Hollis. Still on iPlayer...

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  6. Mar 13

    12 people who put together a 100 page newspaper that knocked the competition into a cocked hat. Always proud to have written for IoS - one of the most enjoyable jobs I ever had. Best wishes to all former colleagues and especially to the editor below.

    Blimey, six years ago today, when I picked up the Front Page of the Year at the Press Awards. I appear quite unflustered about asking the judges if I could have another 11 of the glass plaques, because the Indie on Sunday had a full-time staff of 12. Those were the days
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  7. Mar 12

    Remember how cross I was back in 1994 while writing J.L. Carr's obit for the Independent to be told that Harold Acton had died and I could only do 800 words. No prizes for guessing who made the greater contribution to Eng Lit.

    Prokofiev, Kipling & CS Lewis: Deaths of Famous People Eclipsed by Deaths of Even More Famous People
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  8. Mar 11

    Album of the year, no question!

    My new single "The Knockout Artist" is now available to listen to on Video also available to watch, follow this link:
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  9. Mar 11

    Ms Cooke on the money here, I reckon.

    Meghan is an actor, Winfrey is a billionaire, and this interview was pure theatrics, writes .
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    Mar 10

    It is only 8.10am in a neat townhouse on Putney Hill, but Bunty Malone has swapped emails with half-a-dozen book-world bloggers and written two-thirds of an article for the Daily Mail: “Fitness boot camps might sound like hell — but you’ll love them!”

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  11. Mar 10

    No Norwich game, alas, this evening but I shall console myself with an appearance by Norfolk dialect-meister Peter Trudgill on with incomparable .

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  12. Mar 9

    As all you Hawkwind freaks out there will doubtless know, the late, great Robert Calvert would have been 76 today. Quark, Strangeness and Charm!

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  13. Mar 6

    Afraid I actually laughed out loud while reading Claire Lowdon's deeply disrespectful notice of the new Edward St Aubyn in . She is a terrific reviewer.

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  14. Mar 6

    If, as Matt Hancock alleges, the public sector doesn't have enough money to give the nurses a pay increase, then why doesn't the Government simply take it from the private sector, which has plenty.

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  15. Mar 5

    Polyphonic - no clear narrative line Shocking - not-shocking Award-winning - like nearly every other book published Diverse - contains one non-white character Well-constructed - old-fashioned Neatly-written - knows about subjunctives/gerunds etc

    How to read between the lines ; taking the blur out of book blurbs. Enjoy.
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  16. Mar 5

    This is the equivalent of two back-to-back Park Runs in 18.35 minutes each. Respect!

    Little blast this morning, getting ready for the weekends big runs, hope you've started stretching Jay Eastoe-Smith ! 🤪
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  17. Mar 4

    Can't recommend Robert Edric's memoir of his tough Sheffield childhood highly enough.

    There has never been a suggestion in Robert Edric’s many novels of what he suffered in childhood, but this memoir of parental bullying is a small masterpiece, says D. J. Taylor
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  18. Mar 2

    Top piece by in on the novelist's right to write about anything he or she chooses

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  19. Mar 1

    Really good piece here

    My piece on the latest phase in the biography wars, including insider opinions from and Orwell expert ⁦⁩.
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  20. Feb 25

    Just saw 'Raven' trending and thought, at last a proper Simon Raven reissue programme, Penguin Modern Classics of Alms for Oblivion, The Feathers of Death and Close of Play in bookshop windows, but no just some rubbish about Ru Paul

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