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    Birthday Party

    By DJ Taylor

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    There were three or four other Terrapins in the dining room by now: innocuous-looking men in sober suits, who peered respectfully at the wine list and the framed photograph of the Duke of Windsor drinking a cocktail and looking as if he had just stepped in something nasty. An excerpt from D.J. Taylor's new collection Wrote For Luck, Birthday Lunch is a story of years passing, years wasted and bloody awkward conversations...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGalley Beggar Press
    Release dateDec 19, 2014
    ISBN9781910296424
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    DJ Taylor

    DJ Taylor’s most recent work is The Prose Factory: Literary Life in England Since 1918 (2016). His other books include the Man Booker-longlisted novels Trespass (1998) and Derby Day (2011) and Orwell: The Life which won the 2003 Whitbread Biography Prize. ‘Some Versions of Pastoral’ appeared in the short story collection Wrote for Luck (2015) and has been broadcast on Radio 3.

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