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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: D J TaylorPublisher: Pegasus Books Imprint: Pegasus Books Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.60cm Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9781605984445ISBN 10: 1605984442 Pages: 405 Publication Date: 01 June 2013 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsDerby Day is a triumphant success. In this unputdownable Victorian romp Taylor enjoyable proves himself to be one of the finest of our 21st-century novelists. --A. N. Wilson D. J. Taylor, a British writer of formidable accomplishments, has pulled off an impressive and wholly engaging feat in Derby Day. The prose brings to mind Thackeray and Dickens. It is delicious fun. Taylor leaves one delighted to have visited this world and to have shared in its dissolute yet inviting pleasures. Derby Day is on every count a winner. --Jonathan Yardley Derby Day is a triumphant success. In this unputdownable Victorian romp Taylor enjoyable proves himself to be one of the finest of our 21st-century novelists. --A. N. Wilson Epsom Derby is the subject of an intricately plotted and stylistically burnished crime caper. Taylor builds the suspense, sending his characters to the racetrack for the final event. Whether he intends Tiberius to win or to lose remains, like much else in this tantalizing novel, mysterious almost to the end. Derby Day is a triumphant success. In this unputdownable Victorian romp Taylor enjoyable proves himself to be one of the finest of our 21st-century novelists. --A. N. Wilson <em>Derby Day</em> is a triumphant success. In this unputdownable Victorian romp Taylor enjoyable proves himself to be one of the finest of our 21st-century novelists. --A. N. Wilson Author InformationD. J. Taylor's Orwell won the Whitbread Prize for Biography. His most recent books are Kept; Bright Young People; Ask Alice; and Derby Day, which was nominated for the Booker Prize and was selected as a Washington Post Best Book of the Year. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |