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The Windsor Faction

The Windsor Faction

by D J Taylor (Author), D J Taylor (Author), D J Taylor (Author)

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    Hardcover 2013

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Synopsis

Autumn 1939. In a parallel world where Edward VIII never abdicated and the Second World War might have taken a very different course. Storm clouds gather over Europe, German troops amass and a 'King's Party' of fascist peace campaigners is stealthily undermining the war-effort. Country house parties teem with conspiring Tory MPs, an American Embassy clerk pilfers Presidential telegrams and paranoia grips MI5. In the offices of Duration magazine Cynthia Kirkpatrick finds herself at the centre of a web of intrigue. Journalist Beverley Nichols is engaged on the most important commission of his life - a speech for King Edward VIII that will shock the nation. As history threatens to derail, both learn that taking sides can be a very dangerous business.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 384
 Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 05 Sep 2013
ISBN 10: 0701187875
ISBN 13: 9780701187873
Book Overview: A taut and gripping thriller: King Edward VIII is on the throne and keen to broker peace at any cost - WWII could turn out very differently...

Media Reviews
Compulsively enjoyable Independent A tense phoney-war thriller, as evocative in its period representations as it is compelling in its denouement Mail on Sunday With its meticulous period detail and its dissection of the English class system at work, this new novel from the author of the highly accomplished Derby Day proves that good historical fiction does not have to take place in a past that actually happened -- Nick Rennison Sunday Times It is much harder to show historical change occurring through incremental creep rather than sudden swerves of direction. That DJ Taylor's novel achieves this so well makes in an unusually smart and subtle addition to the genre... Gripping entertainment -- Robert Douglas-Fairhurst Daily Telegraph A splendid what if thriller... Terrific Daily Mail
Author Bio
D.J. Taylor's novels include English Settlement, which won a Grinzane Cavour Prize, Trespass and Derby Day, both of which were long-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and Kept: A Victorian Mystery, a Publishers' Weekly Book of the Year. His other books include After the War: The Novel and England Since 1945, Thackeray, Orwell: The Life, which won the 2003 Whitbread Biography Prize, and Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918-1940. He lives in Norwich with his wife, the novelist Rachel Hore, and their three sons. 'A writer of formidable accomplishment' Washington Post 'Taylor is marking out a territory as distinct and disturbing as Greeneland, with the same imperative towards moral inquisition and a flatlands melancholy that is all his own' Hilary Mantel, Sunday Times 'Taylor is a felicitous, intelligent writer' Herald