The Judges
D. J. Taylor
D. J. Taylor is a writer/critic with a career spanning over 35 years. He is the author of 12 novels, numerous non-fiction books and acclaimed biographies of Thackeray and George Orwell, for which he won the Whitbread Biography Prize in 2003.
Following the discovery of new material, in 2023 he released a second biography of George Orwell, Orwell: The New Life, which was released in paperback in March 2024.
Rachel Hore
Rachel worked as an editor at HarperCollins until moving to Norfolk with her husband, the author D. J. Taylor.
She was in her mid-forties when she wrote her first novel, The Dream House. Aside from writing, she teaches creative writing and publishing at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of thirteen novels, several of which have been Sunday Times Top Ten bestsellers.