D.J. Taylor

As a piece of imaginary biography, Burma Sahib is atmospherically and decorously done

The writer was one of the great underrated chroniclers of ’the valley of the shadow of books’

While I expected the le Carré who emerges from it to be a womanizer, a fantasist and a self-server, I didn’t anticipate that he would be such a terrible bore

Richard Russo doesn’t do fireworks. Dazzling metaphorical flights are not his thing

The legendary British author’s attitude to the US is curiously double-edged