Derby Day: A Novel
“D. J. Taylor, a British writer of formidable accomplishments,has pulled off an impressive and wholly engaging feat inDerby Day. The prose brings to mind Thackeray and Dickens. It is delicious fun. Taylor leaves one delighted to have visited this world and to have shared in its dissolute yet inviting pleasures.Derby Dayis on every count a winner.” (Jonathan Yardley - The Washington Post)“Epsom Derby is the subject of an intricately plotted and stylistically burnished crime caper. Taylor builds the suspense,sending his characters to the racetrack for the final event.  Whether he intends Tiberius to win or to lose remains, like much else in this tantalizing novel, mysterious almost to the end.” (The New York Times Book Review)“Derby Dayis a triumphant success. In this unputdownable Victorian romp Taylor enjoyable proves himself to be one of the finest of our 21st-century novelists.” (A. N. Wilson - Financial Times)