Superlatives may get people's attention, but they don't do much to reward it. So if one were to hazard, for example, that novelist Thomas Pynchon's foreword to the new Plume edition of "Nineteen ...

The anniversary of the publication of George Orwell’s greatest novel is an opportunity to recognise literature’s capacity to provoke and instruct, and to inspire independent thought and action. (Photo ...

Just 750 copies of this lovingly designed edition of George Orwell’s classic novel have been made, commemorating the original book’s enduring legacy This year, George Orwell’s seminal book Nineteen ...

It all began in 2017, when a charity shop in Swansea put a notice in its window imploring people to stop donating copies of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code. On average, the shop was receiving one copy ...

The year 1984 came and went a generation ago, and the clocks did not strike 13. Big Brother’s face doesn’t stare down at us from giant posters. Masked police do not apprehend citizens guilty of ...

WHEN Julia first arrives in London, her mind must rearrange itself around her new life under the ubiquitous telescreens. “She’d started out feeling self-conscious and important, panicked by every ...

George Orwell endured a case of tuberculosis and a near-death experience while writing Nineteen Eighty-Four. | Ivan Radic, Flickr // CC BY 2.0 George Orwell’s 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four has given ...

Seven decades ago, a middle-aged book reviewer and former Anzac digger was so mesmerised by a new novel that he urged his readers to waste no time in ordering copies of it. "I have just finished ...

Since first appearing in the popular lexicon, the term “Orwellian” has conjured up a vision of the prototypical “totalitarian state”: a one-party dictatorship that swarmed with secret police, spied on ...

My copy of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four has cardboard covers. Front and back, the book is decorated with cheesy reproduced paintings. Big Brother wears an evil goatee and eye makeup. A red ...