Stephen Taylor

Stephen Taylor was once a happy and reasonably well-adjusted person; that was until an urge to write invaded his psyche, this need to be a writer, to tell tales. He spent his days as a Tax Inspector - Now come on out from behind the sofa - they're a fine bunch of lads and lasses at the Tax office-, and shuffling his daughter to and from school. But then these thoughts began to coalesce.

A Georgian trilogy was conceived. Three stories, set in London; a decadent time, a decadent place.

The first Novel, No Quarter Asked No Quarter Given, was born - later long-listed for the BritWriters Award.

The second novel, A Canopy of Stars - A Georgian courtroom drama,

The third novel - Ripples and Shadows - now republished as The Secrets of Elloughton Park - a historian uncovers the story of two amazing lives. Now the winner of the Great Beeston Book Read.

Now a fourth novel - Gospels. Also set in the late Georgian era, but follows the adventures of Bible hunters and takes us to Egypt and the Ottoman Empire.

A fifth Novel, - The Mystery of Rufford Abbey- a dual time story. A medieval chronicle is discovered telling the story of Margaret of Wellow. A fifteen-year-old girl who is accused of witchcraft when she claims she has visions of the future. But then her visions collide with the present.

My publisher has now contracted me to write a detective series set in Georgian England. The first book, Brotherhood of Death, was published on October 31, 2025. It is 25 years before the first Metropolitan Police service and 50 years before the first detective service. My detective is a physician who has studied in Edinburgh and in Cairo.

And see also contemporary novels - In The Morning When I Leave, and Once Upon a Thatcher Time. Also a Children’s Novel - The King of Blognogpotin

Stephen Taylor was Born in Yorkshire, brought up in Manchester; he now lives near Loughborough with his partner

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