Monday, June 27, 2011

Derby Day ? DJ Taylor | Rock's Backpages Writers' Blogs

Author: Leyla Sanai

DJ Taylor?s Derby Day is an accomplished novel written in a gently ironic
tone parodying the great novelists of the Victorian era, the time at which it?s
set. My review of it is here:

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http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/derby-day-by-dj-taylor-2302761.html

Freelanced for NME in London, mainly from '81 - '83, with sporadic pieces after that for a few years while studying medicine in Edinburgh. After graduation from Edinburgh Medical School, did JHO year then worked as a physician for a couple of years in Edinburgh, doing MRCP exams, then as an anaesthetist in Glasgow, doing FRCA and becoming a consultant anaesthetist in Glasgow's Western Infirmary/Gartnavel General Hospital. Freelanced for various publications over the years eg Times, Sunday Times, Herald (column for few years), Scotland on Sunday, Scotsman, Guardian, Sunday Herald, Observer. News Ed of British Journal of Intensive Care and International Journal Intensive Care for few years. Columns in BMA News Review, and book reviews in BMJ and Lancet, plus articles in Careers BMJ and Student BMJ. Now have more time on hands as had to give up work as anaesthetist because of rheumatological illness (scleroderma) and write book reviews on freelance basis for The Independent on Sunday and The Independent.

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