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D J Taylor

Norwich
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Writer. Pb of Orwell: The New Life now available. The King Under the Mountain: In Search of J.R.R. Tolkien due in September 2026. Avid Norwich City fan.
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The King Under the Mountain: In Search of J R R Tolkien

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By D J Taylor
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J R R Tolkien and his works cast a long shadow. It is impossible to write in the fantasy genre without reflecting him in some way. His influence can be traced as far as Iris Murdoch and A S Byatt (both fans), as well as to countless poor imitators, parodies and role-playing games. Meanwhile, his estate fans the flames, churning out items as spurious as The Bovadium Fragments (2025), a satire on Oxford planning regulations. What of the man himself?
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Byatt on Grub Street by D J Taylor

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By D J Taylor
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Flame Music: The True Story of Resurgam Records by One Who was There

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D J Taylor’s new novel is a sequel to Rock and Roll is Life (2018), a scurrilous romp through the 1960s and 1970s transatlantic rock scene narrated by the Oxford-educated Nick Du Pont, PR and gopher for the fictional band Helium Kids. Flame Music takes up Nick’s tale again at the fag end of the 1970s, an era when every dinosaur band, manager and also-ran was frantically making a sideways move in order to evade extinction.
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