What a difference a decade makes. In 1940 George Orwell published his eighth book, the essay collection Inside the Whale, but when the Nazis in the same year drew up a list of Britons to be arrested ...

Geoff Dyer’s biography of D H Lawrence, Out of Sheer Rage (1997), famously puts the ‘auto’ into the biographical and tells us much more about Dyer than it does about Lawrence. John Sutherland’s new ...

Human rights lawyer-turned novelist Anna Funder’s 2023 release Wifedom investigates one wife’s unseen literary impact — ...

where he has mapped the locations Orwell visited and what he did there, with some of the information to be included in an upcoming book. The anniversary of the publication of George Orwell’s ...

Lost and Found” draws parallels between apartheid South Africa, segregation in the United States and the modern world.

Season Promo images and additional images of The Round, please visit our Dropbox HERE Following a hugely successful debut ...

In his classic novel 1984, George Orwell’s chilling warning about the dangers of dictatorship, he described the ultimate goal of the dictators, known simply as “The Party”, in this way ...

“I don’t do biography films,” Peck said in a recent ... His next documentary centers on George Orwell and will serve as “exactly the response” to the current political situation.

For readers in the Soviet Union and later in Russia Orwell’s last novel has never been “dystopian” – they recognized every aspect of their own country: ‘the system of organized lying’, rewriting of ...

In Believe Nothing Until It Is Officially Denied, Patrick Cockburn explores the fascinating life of his father, journalist ...

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