J D Taylor: 40 books

Book cover of The Windsor Faction
by D. J. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013

If Wallis Simpson had not died on the operating table in December 1936, Edward VIII would not have been King of England three years later. He would have abdicated for “the woman he loves,” but now, the throne beckons. If Henry Bannister’s car had not careered off the Colombo back-road in the...
Book cover of Southern Journeys

Southern Journeys

Tourism, History, and Culture in the Modern South

by Brooks Blevins, Richard D. Starnes, Harvey H. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011

The first collection of its kind to examine tourism as a complicated and vital force in southern history, culture, and economics. Anyone who has seen Rock City, wandered the grounds of Graceland, hiked in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, or watched the mermaids swim at Weeki Wachee knows...
Book cover of Waves of Protest

Waves of Protest

Social Movements Since the Sixties

by David G. Bromley, Diana Gay Cutchin, Luther P. Gerlach
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 1999

This book updates and adds to the classic Social Movements of the Sixties and Seventies, showing how social movement theory has grown and changed_from an earlier emphasis on collective behavior, to the resource mobilization approach, and currently to analyses that emphasize culture, ideology, and...
Book cover of Trespass

Trespass

A Novel

by D. J. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015

A wanderer struggles to understand his uncle’s downfall six years after a financial catastrophe George Chell has never met a man as witty, as charming, or as brilliant as his uncle. Edward Chell was a financial titan, ruling over a kingdom of profit with an emperor’s savage grace—until...
Book cover of Great Eastern Land
by D. J. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015

Past and present collide for a man on a mission to document a history that may or may not exist, in this ingenious novel by the acclaimed author of Derby Day Dr. Feelgood’s is a brothel overrun with fat, overindulged mice that lies at the western tip of a remote village somewhere in the Far...
Book cover of Secondhand Daylight
by D.J. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012

Autumn 1933, and for once struggling writer James Ross seems to have fallen on his feet. Not only has the Labour Exchange fixed him up with a day-job collecting rents in Soho, but friendly Mr Samuelson is employing him front-of-house in the Toreador night-club. Even his melancholy love-life is looking...
Book cover of At the Chime of a City Clock
by D.J. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011

Summer 1931 in seedy Bayswater and James Ross is on his uppers. An aspiring writer whose stories nobody will buy ('It's the slump'), with a landlady harassing him for unpaid rent and occasional sleepless nights spent in the waiting room at King's Cross Station, he is reduced to selling carpet-cleaning...
Book cover of The Comedy Man

The Comedy Man

A Novel

by D. J. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015

An entertainer looks back on his life in this novel based on the rise and fall of a famous British comedy team From the vantage point of late middle age, Edward “Ted” King—one half of the dynamic duo Upward & King—discovers that nostalgia isn’t what it used to be. Ted met Arthur Upward...
Book cover of Real Life

Real Life

A Novel

by D. J. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015

A screenwriter is about to discover that in life there are no rewrites Martin Benson writes scripts for porn films. He didn’t always aspire to be a screenwriter; he once had dreams of becoming a great journalist. But life has a way of interfering with the best-laid plans. In this darkly captivating...
Book cover of English Settlement
by D. J. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015

A thirty-something, would-be master of the universe tries to reinvent himself in London in this hip and hilarious novel about ambition, family, missed connections, and Anglo-American relations It is the late nineties. The Iraqis are in Kuwait and the former decade’s financial bubble has burst....
Book cover of Wishing on a Blue Star
by Jaime Samms, Brian Holliday, Victor J. Banis
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011

A Special Project by Dreamspinner Press & ManLoveRomance Press. Edited by Kris Jacen. How much impact can someone have on your life if you’ve never met them face to face? In this electronic age of E-mails, electronic publishing, and social networks, quite a lot. Through his...
Book cover of Thinning Films and Tribological Interfaces

Thinning Films and Tribological Interfaces

Proceedings of the 26th Leeds-Lyon Symposium

by D. Dowson, M. Priest, C. M. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000

This collection of fully peer-reviewed papers were presented at the 26th Leeds-Lyon Tribology Symposium which was held in Leeds, UK, 14-17 September, 1999. The Leeds-Lyon Symposia on Tribology were launched in 1974, and the large number of references to original work published in the Proceedings over...
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