George Orwell aka Eric Blair (1903-50) is now clearly second only to Shakespeare in the pantheon of English literary giants. In our current contemporary context, where hyperbole is coin of […]
George Orwell aka Eric Blair (1903-1950) died seventy years ago today, on the 21st January 1950. His favourite aunt, Nellie Limouzin (1870-1950), passed away five months later in tragically sad […]
“I think we’ve ended up being incredibly faithful to the book.” Duncan MacMillan George Orwell’s last novel, published in 1949, was not expected to have much of a shelf life […]
“As a child I lived in a home that was full of books … Rare works and first editions were kept under lock and key, and it took all my […]
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My #reading: June 2016
“This is to be a sort of diary or book of notes. When I have finished filling these pages, I shall burn them. But if […]