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Taylor, D. J.

D. J. Taylor’s books include Orwell: The Life, which won the 2003 Whitbread Biography Prize, and The Prose Factory: Literary Life in England since 1918. Of his dozen novels, the most recent is Rock and Roll Is Life: The True Story of the Helium Kids by One Who Was There (2018). His latest book, Orwell: The New Life was published in 2023.

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20100901114824 D. J. Taylor, Roger Longrigg - Slightly Foxed Issue 27

Down in the Mayfair Badlands

D. J. Taylor on Roger Longrigg, A High-Pitched Buzz

In strict taxonomic terms, Roger Longrigg’s long career – he published novels for over half his seven decades on the planet – looks like a throw-back, a reversion to the high-output conditions of the inter-war era when, as Alec Waugh once put it, ‘a book a year was the rule’. Certainly a professional bibliographer called in to reckon up his prodigious output would hardly know where to start. To begin with there are the dozen novels written in the ’50s and ’60s under his own name – gamey and somewhat louche affairs, including the horse-racing caper Daughters of Mulberry (1961). Then there are the psychological thrillers from the 1980s, most notably Mother Love (1983), under the alias ‘Domini Taylor’.
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Ayrshire Romantic

D. J. Taylor on Gordon Williams, From Scenes Like These

The great wave of Romanticism that swept over Scottish literature from the mid-Victorian era onwards was always going to have its answering cry. This tendency was particularly marked among the group of twentieth-century writers who had grown up in its paralysing shadow. There you were, in your draughty schoolroom somewhere near Inverness, being lectured about Queen Victoria’s ‘Jacobite moods’ and having it dinned into your head that Waverley was the greatest novel ever written north of the Tweed, while outside the window the unemployment queues grew longer and the winds swept in from continental Europe.

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