C. M. Taylor

Taylor's latest novel, Staying On, is published by Duckworth in 2018 and described as a 'tragi-comic geriatric coming-of-age story and a deep, loving portrait of the English working class'. In 2014 he began a project with the British Library to document the creative process of writing the book. In a 2017 interview Taylor explained: 'They have put what is effectively a piece of spyware on a laptop on which I’m writing a novel, and this spyware documents every key stroke I make, and documents the time it was made.'

Taylor co-wrote (with Jeremy Sheldon) the screenplay of the 2015 film Writers Retreat.

In December 2014, Taylor launched the 'immersive narrative app' Reptile Resistance in collaboration with John Crump through the crowdfunding publisher Unbound; funding was secured in 2017. The app is illustrated by the artist Pete Fowler.

Premiership Psycho is the first part of a planned Kev King trilogy; the second instalment, Group of Death, set at the 2012 European Football Championship in Poland and Ukraine, was published by Corsair in 2012.

The dystopian satire Grief was nominated for Best Book of the Year 2005 by the British Science Fiction Association and was described in the BSFA's review as 'magnificent', and a work of 'breathtaking originality.'

Taylor's novel Cloven is a dark treatment of the BSE epidemic in Britain in the 1990s.

The novella Light is set in the e-commerce boom of the late 1990s and features the author's own Primitivist drawings. In Time Out London the novelist Nicholas Royle described Light as 'compelling', and 'delightfully unusual.'

C. M. Taylor (born 1972) is the pen name of Craig Taylor, an English novelist, screenwriter and lecturer.

Born in Birmingham in 1972, C. M. Taylor has lived in West Yorkshire, Suffolk, Cambridge, Edinburgh, India, Spain and Brussels. He is married with two daughters and currently lives in Oxford.