The Windsor Faction

A highly successful thriller

Oldie

A gripping and highly convincing novel… Here are intrigue and clever parallel narratives… One emerges from immersion in this tantalizing creation admiring both Taylor’s art and the cleverness of his imagination

Allan Massie, Scotsman

This is a gripping tale of intrigue

Good Book Guide

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

Offers a chilling alternative view of the direction the Second World War might have taken had the man who later became the Duke of Windsor…remained on the British throne

Mark Nicholls, UK Regional Press

A highly successful literary thriller with one eye on a shocking chapter in the nation’s genuine history and another on the potential for authorial invention

Christian House, Independent on Sunday

It is Taylor’s achievement to have written a tense, page-turning thriller, enriched by acute social observation, within which unfolds a subtle meditation upon where the quest for peace ends and the path to treason begins

Graham Stewart, The 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 fascinating foray into the 'what if?'… Ingenious and extremely plausible

Trevor Heaton, UK Regional Press

The novel is much more than an intriguing exercise in alternative history… This is as skilful and enjoyable a novel as you can ask for, the work of a master-craftsman

Allan Massie, Scotsman

This galloping, might-have-been thriller… Taylor cleverly uses genuine historical details to make the nightmare horribly convincing

Kate Saunders, Saga

A splendidly disrespectful counterfactual history that questions the perceived patriotism of King Edward VIII and his notoriously pro-Hitler views

Mark Perryman, Huffington Post

Compulsively enjoyable

Independent

A tense phoney-war thriller, as evocative in its period representations as it is compelling in its denouement

Mail on Sunday

A splendid "what if" thriller… Terrific

Daily Mail

A crafty and pitch-perfect novel of Nazi sympathizers and secret agents in wartime London

Independent

A witty, meticulous detailed alternative version of the second world war

Observer