John Taylor, Author Story Line Press $12.95 (130p) ISBN 978-1-885266-53-8
The daydreams and meditations that Taylor passes off as ""mysterious"" in his second collection of stories (after The Presence of Things Past) are in fact too often forays into the most insipid of anxieties. One narrator wonders whether he will ever
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John Taylor, Author Random House (NY) $22.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-375-50094-7
Taylor (Storming the Magic Kingdom) has written an eloquent and deeply felt memoir about the demise of his 11-year marriage. Taylor married his wife when he was 26 and she was 32, after they had been living together for more than a year. Almost...
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John Taylor, read by Benedict Cumberbatch, AudioGo, unabridged, two CDs, 2 hrs., $19.95 ISBN 978-1-60998-266-9
Benedict Cumberbatch, star of the British television series Sherlock, shines in this audio version of four short mystery stories written by John Taylor and inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In each tale—"An Inscrutable Masquerade," "The Trinity...
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John Taylor, Author . Random $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-375-50538-6
Seasoned journalist Taylor explored financial wheelings and dealings in Circus of Ambition
and earned praise for Falling,
an eloquent memoir of his doomed marriage. A similar intimacy and flair for intrigue pervade this account of the trial and...
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John Taylor, Author Alfred A. Knopf $18.95 (261p) ISBN 978-0-394-54640-7
Disney is once again a golden name in Hollywood, but three years ago that wasn't the case, prompting a Disney family rift that erupted in a struggle for company control. But what Disney insiders saw as a mismanaged family business looked to Wall...
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John Taylor, Author Warner Books $19.45 (240p) ISBN 978-0-446-51484-2
Arguing that our growing conservatism in things political goes hand in hand with American society's increasing interest in wealth, appetite for conspicuous consumption and yearning for power, Taylor ( Storming the Magic Kingdom ) offers an...
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John Taylor, Author Manchester University Press $79.95 (295p) ISBN 978-0-7190-3723-8
Tourism as time-travel, an English landscape far more sinister than meets the eye and photographs as memento mori are the themes that dominate this work. Interpreting the use of photography over the past hundred years, British art historian Taylor...
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John Taylor, Author . Random $25.95 (421p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6114-3
Taylor (The Count and the Confession
) offers a vivid account of the fledgling days of the National Basketball Association and the intense competition between two of its biggest early stars: Bill Russell (of the Boston Celtics) and Wilt Chamberlain (
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John Taylor with Tom Sykes. Dutton, $27.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-5259-5800-0
Duran Duran was one of the most successful pop groups of the early 1980s and is still performing
today—outliving such contemporaries as Spandau Ballet and Culture Club. Founding member and bass player Taylor delivers a straightforward look at the...
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