About Matson Taylor.

Matson Taylor grew up in Yorkshire (the flat part, not the Brontë part). He comes from farming stock and spent an idyllic childhood surrounded by horses, cows, bicycles, and cheap ice-cream. 

Matson now lives in London, and works simultaneously as a novelist and design historian. He studied at the Royal College of Art and has taught at museums and universities around the world. He has also worked on Camden Market, appeared in an Italian TV commercial, and been a pronunciation coach for Catalan opera singers. He gets back to Yorkshire as much as possible, mainly to see family and friends but also to get a reasonably-priced haircut.

He has always loved telling stories and, after writing extensively about luxury goods manufacturing during World War 2 (think glow-in-the-dark fascinators & alligator-skin gas-mask cases) he decided to enrol on the Faber Academy 'Writing A Novel' course.

In 2016 he started writing his first novel, The Miseducation of Evie Epworth, inspired by his work at the V&A museum.  Published in April 2021 by Simon & Schuster, the book was chosen for both the Richard & Judy Bookclub and the BBC Radio 2 Bookclub, and went on to become a bestseller.

His second book, All About Evie, is a sequel, charting the messy end of the 1960s and the choppy beginnings of the 1970s. It was published in hardback in July 2022, and is now available to pre-order as a paperback.

Matson is now working on his third novel, which, like his first two, will be a funny book about serious things. 

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