The Finlay Publisher Archive

Between 2008 and 2011, before forming The Orwell Society, our Founder Dione Venables commissioned a number of articles for her “Finlay Publisher” website.  These articles can be accessed here:

Bernard Crick – Orwell as Comic Writer.

Professor Peter Davison – Religion & Ethical Values.

Dr Loraine Saunders – Between 1984 and Brave New World: A Far Cry from Orwell’s Socialism.

Dr Gordon Bowker – The Biography Orwell Never Wrote.

Professor Douglas Kerr – Orwell, Kipling and Empire.

D.J. Taylor –  Orwell’s Poetry.

Richard Blair – Life With My Aunt Avril Blair.

Professor Peter Davison – Orwell and Sport.

Professor John Rodden/John Rossi – Papa and “St. George” – The (Un)meeting.

Dr William (Liam) Hunt – Why Did Orwell Go To Burma.

Professor Peter Stansky – Searching for Orwell: A Reminiscence.

Dr Ron Bateman – No Room at the Hypocrites’ Club.

Dominic Cavendish – Coming Up For Air Revisted: Orwell, England and the Idea of Escape. 

Professor Peter Davison – Getting It Right.

Professor John Rodden – The Biographical Review Orwell Never Wrote.

Steve Wadhams – Orwell’s Crystal Chandelier.

Dr William (Liam) Hunt – New Light on Orwell’s Lost Youth. 

Dr Gordon Bowker – The Trail That Never Ends: Reflections of a Biografiend.

Professor Peter Davison – Two Wasted Years? 

Emma Larkin – Being Eric / Being George: Or, What It’s Really Like to Become Someone Else.