Books by Peter Taylor
In the course of a distinguished career spanning nearly 40 years, multi-award-winning BBC reporter and documentary maker Peter Taylor has frequently come face-to-face with terrorists and their victims in his attempt to explain the actions of the individuals behind some of the world’s most notorious terror attacks
“In the story ‘1939’, a couple of creative writing students at Kenyon College in Ohio decide to spend Thanksgiving weekend driving down to New York City to see their fiances, and everything goes about as wrong as you might wish. The genius is in the telling, in Peter Taylor’s case. There’s this wonderful episode—maybe this encapsulates it—where their car breaks down and they have to get a train back to university. And you have the rhythm of the train, which sticks in the mind of the narrator like a tune, and the rhythm has been turned into words, and the words are: Not yet, not yet, not yet.” Read more...
Benjamin Markovits, Novelist
Interviews with Peter Taylor
The best books on Al-Qaeda, recommended by Peter Taylor
The award-winning BBC documentary maker Peter Taylor tells us what he learned in his ten years investigating Al-Qaeda, and suggests what we should read to understand where the group came from, and what it’s still trying to do
Interviews where books by Peter Taylor were recommended
The Best Road Trip Novels, recommended by Benjamin Markovits
Why do so many people fantasise about getting in their cars and driving away from everything they know? The novelist Ben Markovits reflects on the near-universal urge to get out on the open road, as he recommends five of the best road trip novels—from Jack Kerouac to Anne Tyler.
