Derby Day by D J Taylor
Uniting them all is the champion horse Tiberius, on whose performance half a dozen destinies depend. In this rich and exuberant novel, rife with the idioms of Victorian England, the mysteries pile high, propelling us towards the day of the great race, and we wait with bated breath as the story gallops to a finish that no one expects.
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 * Financial Times *
Rich and gorgeous as a plum cake, this is absorbing entertainment indeed -- Kate Saunders * Times *
Taylor, as you would expect of such an accomplished novelist and biographer, has immersed himself in the details of the early 1860s. The novel is richly redolent of the novels of Wilkie Collins, Dickens and Thackeray. The characters who plot and squirm throughout the course of Derby Day are fully rounded and memorably drawn and the atmosphere is palpable. In fact here is an intelligent novel which is also a genuine page-turner. Truly a terrific read * Daily Express *
Derby Day is pitch-perfect... It's enormous fun and meticulously researched and conceived * Guardian *
Taylor has written an exceptionally clever pastiche nineteeth-century novel with a richness of character that almost matches his models of Dickens and Thackeray * Sunday Times *
Rich and gorgeous as a plum cake, this is absorbing entertainment indeed -- Kate Saunders * Times *
Taylor, as you would expect of such an accomplished novelist and biographer, has immersed himself in the details of the early 1860s. The novel is richly redolent of the novels of Wilkie Collins, Dickens and Thackeray. The characters who plot and squirm throughout the course of Derby Day are fully rounded and memorably drawn and the atmosphere is palpable. In fact here is an intelligent novel which is also a genuine page-turner. Truly a terrific read * Daily Express *
Derby Day is pitch-perfect... It's enormous fun and meticulously researched and conceived * Guardian *
Taylor has written an exceptionally clever pastiche nineteeth-century novel with a richness of character that almost matches his models of Dickens and Thackeray * Sunday Times *
D.J. Taylor was born in Norwich in 1960. He is a novelist, critic and acclaimed biographer, whose Orwell: The Life won the Whitbread Biography prize in 2003. His most recent books are Kept: A Victorian Mystery (a Publishers Weekly Book of the Year), Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918-1940, and the novels Ask Alice and At the Chime of a City Clock.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780701183585 |
| ISBN 10 | 0701183586 |
| Title | Derby Day |
| Author | D J Taylor |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2011-06-02 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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