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 ...

The assistant principal at Dapto High School near Wollongong has won international recognition for his scholarly research on George Orwell, author of books including Nineteen Eighty-Four and ...

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

He is author of The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four which was longlisted for the Orwell and Baillie Gifford prizes. Lynskey’s latest book is Everything Must Go: ...

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 ...

He doesn’t even look back. That’s the thread. I suggest scissors. Helen Gottstein, Loud and Clear Training, boosts public ...

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

[25] On 21 October 1949, Huxley wrote to George Orwell, author of Nineteen Eighty-Four ... a few weeks after Aldous Huxley’s death] The publisher had suggested John Lehmann should write the biography.

“My thanks to Tess Livingstone for this engaging biography, which captures the fact that, most of all, George Pell was a giant in his love of Jesus and His Church, whom he served with vigor and ...

The first section of the London Underground opens. Construction ends on the Statue of Liberty. Construction ends on the Empire State Building. George Orwell's '1984' is published. J.R.R Tolkien's 'The ...

Crisell’s contribution stands apart for its rejection of grandiosity. Instead of feeding the mystique, In Writing exposes the ...