Order of D.J. Taylor Books
D.J. Taylor is an English author of fiction and non-fiction books. He is a critic, novelist and biographer. David John Taylor attended school in Norwich, and studied Modern History at St. John’s College, Oxford. Some of the biographies he has written include William Makepeace Thackeray and George Orwell. Taylor currently contributes to multiple publications, such as The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian and The Independent. He lives in Norwich, England.
D.J. Taylor made his debut as a published author in 1986 with the novel Great Eastern Land. Below is a list of D.J. Taylor’s books in order of when they were first published:
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Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Great Eastern Land | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Real Life | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| English Settlement | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Trespass | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Comedy Man | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Kept | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ask Alice | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| At the Chime of a City Clock | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Derby Day | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Secondhand Daylight | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Windsor Faction | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| From the Heart | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| After Bathing at Baxter's | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Wrote for Luck | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| A Vain Conceit | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| After the War | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Thackeray | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Orwell | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bright Young People | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| On The Corinthian Spirit | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| What You Didn't Miss | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Prose Factory | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The New Book of Snobs | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| 'Rock and Roll is Life' | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Lost Girls | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| On 1984 | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
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D.J. Taylor Synopses: Real Life is a standalone novel by D.J. Taylor. In a remote Eastern village with a bazaar, a brothel and a corrupt police commissioner, David Castel settles down to compile his notebooks. As he writes his musings intertwine with dangerous speculations from the village, and the past and present begin to collide in unexpected ways.
At the Chime of a City of Clock is a standalone novel by D.J. Taylor. The novel is set in 1931 in Bayswater, London. James Ross, an aspiring writer whose stories nobody will buy, is reduced to door-to-door selling. He meets glamorous Suzi, but their relationship turns out to be a source of bafflement: who is her boss, the mysterious Mr. Rasmussen, and why is he so interested in the premises above a jeweller’s shop?