It would be hard to find a more courageous and perverse, iconic yet controversial figure in European literary history than George Sand. One of the great romantics, she helped transform culture, and... Read more »
George Orwell’s correspondence, contracts and readers’ reports relating to his earliest novels are among historic papers that have been saved for the nation after an outcry over their initial dispersal. University College... Read more »
He was a writer concerned with poverty, class and power; we will never know how George Orwell would feel about being commemorated on a coin. The Royal Mint had announced that the... Read more »
George Orwellâs archives provide an invaluable insight into one of the most influential British writers of the 20th century, casting light on how he produced his most memorable books, his sensitivity to... Read more »
This memoir-cum-polemic by George the Poet, AKA George Mpanga, opens at a party attended by the author where a white man starts preaching about race to a group of Black guests and... Read more »
His fantasy novel series A Song of Ice and Fire may have sold 90m copies and been translated into 47 languages, propelling George RR Martin to literary superstardom â but that wasnât... Read more »
Copies of George Orwellâs dystopian masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four have been arriving at an artistâs studio in Edinburgh for months. Every shape and size, posted from Ukraine, Hong Kong, Peru, Germany, Cape Cod... Read more »
George Orwell’s years as a colonial policeman in Burma in the 1920s preoccupied him for the rest of his life. Straight out of Eton, he was thrown into a world that mirrored... Read more »