'A monument to crazy love. Magic' New York Times 'The actress arrived in his village the only way one could come directly . . .'In spring 1962 American actress Dee Moray's boat motors into an Italian
'DO NOT OPEN - DESTROY.'The words on the envelope he has found are written in Kath's hand, but Glyn ignores his wife's instruction and breaks the seal. His life unwinds. For he finds a photograph show
'Are we making a bomb?' 'This is a trust exercise, like in drama,' she says. 'Are we making a bomb as a trust exercise?'Fifteen-year-old Oliver Tate is terrified that his family is falling apart. He f
When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunnin
'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past' Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the pa
Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a good job to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self
Features essays, reviews and articles that illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who created a unique literary manner from the process of thinking
An account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s. It presents his descriptions of social injustice, cramped
Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, this book describes both indigenous corruption and Imperial bigotry, when 'after all, natives were natives - interesting, no doubt, but
Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell, was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most promi
Offers an account of the brutal conditions of the Spanish Civil War. The author brings to bear all the force of his humanity, passion and clarity, describing with bitter intensity the bright hopes and
The classic comedy of a 50s youth trapped inside a Walter Mitty fantasy-world, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Keith Waterhouse's Billy Liar was published in 1959, and captures br
One of Britain's most popular novels, George Orwell's dystopian tale Nineteen Eighty-Four is set in a society terrorised by a totalitarian ideology propagated by The Party. 'It was a bright cold day i
The classic World War One novel, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Alec and Jerry shouldn't have been friends: Alec's life was one of privilege, while Jerry's was one of toil. But t
'An exciting writer, sharp and shocking as the knives her characters wield' Sunday TimesLike her namesake Jack Kerouac, J.K. is always on the road, travelling Europe with her typewriter in a pillowcas
'Sometimes I feel that I am destined always to be offstage whenever the main action occurs. That God has made me the victim of some cosmic practical joke, by assigning me little more than a walk-on pa
"Politics and the English Language" is widely considered Orwell's most important essay on style. Style, for Orwell, was never simply a question of aesthetics; it was always inextricably linked to poli
