D.J. Taylor has written twelve novels, including English Settlement (1996), which won a Grinzane Cavour Prize,Trespass (1998) and Derby Day(2011), both of which were long-listed fo...ver maisD.J. Taylor has written twelve novels, including English Settlement (1996), which won a Grinzane Cavour Prize,Trespass (1998) and Derby Day(2011), both of which were long-listed for the Booker Prize, Kept (2006), a U.S. Publishers' Weekly Book of the Year, and The Windsor Faction (2013), joint winner of the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. His non-fiction includes Orwell: The Life, winner of the 2003 Whitbread Prize for Biography, The Prose Factory: Literary Life in England Since 1918 (2016) and Lost Girls: Love, War and Literature 1939-1951 (2019). His most recent books are a collection of short stories, Stewkey Blues (2022), and Critic at Large: Essays and Reviews: 2010-2022 (2023). His new biography, Orwell: The New Life, was published in 2023. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in Norwich with his wife, the novelist Rachel Hore.ver menos