DJ Taylor
@djtaylorwriter.bsky.social
Writer. Orwell: The New Life now in pb. Poppyland: Stories coming in June. Avid Norwich City fan.
Glad this went down well with the family.
Great article by @djtaylorwriter.bsky.social about my dad, 'paranoid' George Orwell, and sneaking a peek at the manuscript of 1984: www.the-tls.com/literature-b...
Trial by Jura
David Holbrook (1923–2011) pursued a distinguished career as a writer, poet and educationalist. As a teacher of English literature he was a protégé of F.
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October 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Glad this went down well with the family.
Just caught wonderful @coryhanson.bsky.social Kpex performance on You Tube. Top stuff. Looking forward to UK tour.
September 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Just caught wonderful @coryhanson.bsky.social Kpex performance on You Tube. Top stuff. Looking forward to UK tour.
Afraid I laughed just now when I read that all the novels on the Booker list are ‘brilliantly human.’
September 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Afraid I laughed just now when I read that all the novels on the Booker list are ‘brilliantly human.’
Deeply alarmed to see the world’s leading demagogue on the news just now wearing a ‘What would Orwell think!’ T shirt.
September 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Deeply alarmed to see the world’s leading demagogue on the news just now wearing a ‘What would Orwell think!’ T shirt.
Great to hear the wonderful @coryhanson.bsky.social is playing the Moth Club Hackney in February!
September 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Great to hear the wonderful @coryhanson.bsky.social is playing the Moth Club Hackney in February!
Always a reliable critic..,
Finished reading Poppyland by @djtaylorwriter.bsky.social last night.
Like Stewkey Blues, this is a great collection of short stories though this time mainly set in and around Norwich rather than Norfolk as a whole.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Like Stewkey Blues, this is a great collection of short stories though this time mainly set in and around Norwich rather than Norfolk as a whole.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
September 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Always a reliable critic..,
Apropos of this, very sorry to hear just now of death of Byron Rogers, Carr’s biographer.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
JL Carr was indeed a great life, I hadn't realised.
Re-reading A Month In The Country now!
@djtaylorwriter.bsky.social
JL Carr was indeed a great life, I hadn't realised.
Re-reading A Month In The Country now!
@djtaylorwriter.bsky.social
Great Lives - Miles Jupp on JL Carr, author of A Month in the Country - BBC Sounds
Famous guests pick a life they love or admire.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Apropos of this, very sorry to hear just now of death of Byron Rogers, Carr’s biographer.
Greatly enjoyed this tribute to the great Jim Carr.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
JL Carr was indeed a great life, I hadn't realised.
Re-reading A Month In The Country now!
@djtaylorwriter.bsky.social
JL Carr was indeed a great life, I hadn't realised.
Re-reading A Month In The Country now!
@djtaylorwriter.bsky.social
Great Lives - Miles Jupp on JL Carr, author of A Month in the Country - BBC Sounds
Famous guests pick a life they love or admire.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 26, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Greatly enjoyed this tribute to the great Jim Carr.
Published today in paperback, the retitled Who is Big Brother? @yalepress.bsky.social @orwellprize.bsky.social Great design job.
August 26, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Published today in paperback, the retitled Who is Big Brother? @yalepress.bsky.social @orwellprize.bsky.social Great design job.
Enjoyed doing this. And he turned out to be a fan of Rock and Roll is Life, which is always a good start.
Rod Liddle interviews DJ Taylor on Times Radio 02:37:00 about his new collection of short stories: POPPYLAND.
www.thetimes.com/radio/show/2...
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Listen to Times Radio live for the latest breaking news, expert analysis and well-informed discussion covering the biggest stories of the day.
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August 13, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Enjoyed doing this. And he turned out to be a fan of Rock and Roll is Life, which is always a good start.
Terrific stuff! This is the view of Norwich market from Caffè Nero, where much of Poppyland @saltpublishing.com was written. Greatly obliged to @jonathancoe.bsky.social
Location footage fans! Last night Together TV, which screens some incredible 1970s curios at the weekends, unearthed a film from 1974 called Got It Made, described by its sole IMDb reviewer as ‘the most Norwich-centric film ever made’. I wonder if @djtaylorwriter.bsky.social knows about it?
August 11, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Terrific stuff! This is the view of Norwich market from Caffè Nero, where much of Poppyland @saltpublishing.com was written. Greatly obliged to @jonathancoe.bsky.social
Delighted to report that @coryhanson.bsky.social ‘I Love People’ is the business and joins @stereolabgroop.bsky.social album as best thing I’ve heard this year.
July 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Delighted to report that @coryhanson.bsky.social ‘I Love People’ is the business and joins @stereolabgroop.bsky.social album as best thing I’ve heard this year.
Superb design job by @yalebooks.bsky.social for pb of Who is Big Brother? Out next month @orwellprize.bsky.social
July 11, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Superb design job by @yalebooks.bsky.social for pb of Who is Big Brother? Out next month @orwellprize.bsky.social
Great to see three generations of the family getting a mention!
July 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Great to see three generations of the family getting a mention!
Very depressed to learn that @thetls.bsky.social is going fortnightly as of 6 September. Little enough space for serious book reviewing as it is.
July 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Very depressed to learn that @thetls.bsky.social is going fortnightly as of 6 September. Little enough space for serious book reviewing as it is.
Love this illustration to Critic piece in support of my new short story collection Poppyland @saltpublishing.com This is ‘The Frogman’, who prowled the streets of south-west Norwich in my childhood.
June 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Love this illustration to Critic piece in support of my new short story collection Poppyland @saltpublishing.com This is ‘The Frogman’, who prowled the streets of south-west Norwich in my childhood.
Andrew O’Hagan terrific on Joan Didion in new @lrb.co.uk
June 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Andrew O’Hagan terrific on Joan Didion in new @lrb.co.uk
Glad to have hit the spot!
Great collection of (13) short stories by @djtaylorwriter.bsky.social - mostly set in Norfolk. My fav is 'Yare Valley Mud' about the sex lives of 2 Norwich-based taxi cab controllers which is full of humour. DJT is adept at portraying different English social classes. Published: @saltpublishing.com
June 18, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Glad to have hit the spot!
With JS Barnes, who conducted the Q&A, at launch of Poppyland @saltpublishing.com @bookhive.buzz
June 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
With JS Barnes, who conducted the Q&A, at launch of Poppyland @saltpublishing.com @bookhive.buzz
Very much obliged to Mr Cochrane here.
An ill wind: Poppyland, by @djtaylorwriter.bsky.social , reviewed in The Spectator by George Cochrane
‘Norfolk life looks quietly bleak in these carefully worked short stories of broken homes, precarious employment, dwindling expectations and torpor’
‘Norfolk life looks quietly bleak in these carefully worked short stories of broken homes, precarious employment, dwindling expectations and torpor’
An ill wind: Poppyland, by D.J. Taylor, reviewed
As the term refers to the stretch of the north Norfolk coastline between Sheringham and Mundesley, only one of the stories in D.J. Taylor’s engrossing new collection strictly takes place in ‘Poppyland...
www.spectator.co.uk
June 5, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Very much obliged to Mr Cochrane here.
Obliged to Mr Akram here. Gather he’s never been to Norfolk. Ought to visit!
Terrific review by Hassan Akram of
@djtaylorwriter.bsky.social’s new short stories, Poppyland, in the Literary Review:
‘Smells of oil, burnt sugar and kebabs linger long after the plots have faded.’
Read on ...
@djtaylorwriter.bsky.social’s new short stories, Poppyland, in the Literary Review:
‘Smells of oil, burnt sugar and kebabs linger long after the plots have faded.’
Read on ...
Hassan Akram - Norfolk Rhapsodies
Hassan Akram: Norfolk Rhapsodies - Poppyland by D J Taylor
literaryreview.co.uk
June 4, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Obliged to Mr Akram here. Gather he’s never been to Norfolk. Ought to visit!
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More reviews of @djtaylorwriter.bsky.social’s sensational Poppyland – here's Harry Cochrane in The Tablet. #Booksky
June 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
More reviews of @djtaylorwriter.bsky.social’s sensational Poppyland – here's Harry Cochrane in The Tablet. #Booksky
Another splendid production and publicity job from the fine people @saltpublishing.com Looking forward to Thursday’s launch at The Bookhive, Norwich.
Huge congratulations to @djtaylorwriter.bsky.social on the publication of Poppyland! 🥳🎉🥂
June 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Another splendid production and publicity job from the fine people @saltpublishing.com Looking forward to Thursday’s launch at The Bookhive, Norwich.
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🌺 New from DJ Taylor – Poppyland 🌺
Published Mon 2nd June, a dazzling collection of short stories explores the murky edges of nostalgia, ambition, and identity in England.
📖 Buy now:
www.saltpublishing.com/products/pop...
#Poppyland #DJTaylor #ShortStories #BookSky #IndieBooks #SaltModernStories
Published Mon 2nd June, a dazzling collection of short stories explores the murky edges of nostalgia, ambition, and identity in England.
📖 Buy now:
www.saltpublishing.com/products/pop...
#Poppyland #DJTaylor #ShortStories #BookSky #IndieBooks #SaltModernStories
May 29, 2025 at 6:45 AM
🌺 New from DJ Taylor – Poppyland 🌺
Published Mon 2nd June, a dazzling collection of short stories explores the murky edges of nostalgia, ambition, and identity in England.
📖 Buy now:
www.saltpublishing.com/products/pop...
#Poppyland #DJTaylor #ShortStories #BookSky #IndieBooks #SaltModernStories
Published Mon 2nd June, a dazzling collection of short stories explores the murky edges of nostalgia, ambition, and identity in England.
📖 Buy now:
www.saltpublishing.com/products/pop...
#Poppyland #DJTaylor #ShortStories #BookSky #IndieBooks #SaltModernStories
With two top lads just before Iggy Pop’s arrival on stage at the Alexandra Palace last night. He was terrific. Adroitly managed exit in a coffin.
May 29, 2025 at 8:25 PM
With two top lads just before Iggy Pop’s arrival on stage at the Alexandra Palace last night. He was terrific. Adroitly managed exit in a coffin.