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P.J. Taylor

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P.J. Taylor was born in Kent in 1971. He was educated at Ramsden School for Boys, where he spent pretty much most of the time playing computer games, watching movies and occasionally writing a short story. In 1988 he began working for a bank in London and five years after this he was happily married and living in South East London.

In 1994 he was diagnosed with Wegner's Granulomatosis and became seriously ill. Five years later and after various treatments he successfully went into remission. Unfortunately, in 2004 he became seriously ill again and was diagnosed with an inoperable tumour behind his left eye caused by the same disease.

It was whilst he was in hospital, receiving treatment, that he began working on his first novel 'Brian, his ...more

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I chose and read this after watching the Bosch TV series. I've never really read a serious crime novel before in my life. Like the TV series I found the story slow but absorbing, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I would gladly read another Bosch novel an ...more
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Whilst the protagonist in The Long Shoe is a different character from Bob's previous books he's almost identical. Matt talks to his cat this time instead of a squirrel. That's really my only complaint. Otherwise I really enjoyed the story, the humour ...more
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P.J.’s Quotes

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

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“Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”
― Clare Boothe Luce

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“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

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“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither

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“Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

tags: childhood, friendship, growing-up

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