About the Author

D.J. TAYLOR is the author of eleven novels, including English Settlement (1996), which won a Grinzane Cavour prize, Trespass (1998) and Derby Day (2011), both long-listed for the Man Booker Prize, Kept: a Victorian Mystery (2006), a Publishers’ Weekly book of the year and The Windsor Faction (2013), joint winner of the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. His non-fiction includes After the War: The Novel and England Since 1945 (1993), Thackeray (1999) and Orwell: The Life, which won the 2003 Whitbread Prize for biography. He lives in Norwich with his wife, the novelist Rachel Hore, and their three sons.