{"product_id":"the-windsor-faction-by-dj-taylor-855v","title":"The Windsor Faction by D.J. Taylor","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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.  Autumn 1939. In a parallel world where Edward VIII never abdicated and the Second World War might have taken a very different course.  As the storm clouds gather over Europe and German troops are amassing, a clandestine 'King's Party' of fascist peace campaigners is stealthily undermining the war-effort. Back from Ceylon to work in the offices of Duration, the newly-founded literary magazine, Cynthia Kirkpatrick finds herself at the centre of a web of intrigue. London shivers with uncertainty. Country house parties are full of conspiring Tory MPs while a clerk from the American Embassy is busy pilfering Presidential telegrams. Everyone is under suspicion as MI5 are widening their net; and journalist Beverley Nichols is engaged on the most important commission of his life -- a secret King's Speech to shock the nation. And as Hitler's encroaches further into Europe, Cynthia soon discovers that taking sides can be a very dangerous business.  Editorial Reviews  Review • 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  About the Author D. J. TAYLOR was born in Norwich in 1960. He is a novelist, critic and acclaimed biographer, whose biography of Thackeray was a critically-acclaimed success and whose Orwell: The Life won the Whitbread Biography prize in 2003. His most recent books are Kept: A Victorian Mystery (a Publishers Weekly Book of the Year), Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918-1940, and the Booker-longlisted novel Derby Day.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41829237096522,"sku":"855v","price":8.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/Book-Express-No-Image-Main_c91c10cb-a534-4427-86e7-4e0907becbcc.png?v=1764436470","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/the-windsor-faction-by-dj-taylor-855v","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}