Books of Interest: 2021 Autumn

Some of these books we may have covered in other editions, or even other languages. We offer a link to the publishers’ websites for more information about each title.

Non-Fiction

Orwell’s Roses by Rebecca Solnit

Published by Granta Books, ISBN13: 9781783785452

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Orwell (A Biography): Words by Pierre Christin, Art by Sébastien Verdier, Translated by Edward Gauvin

English translation published by Self Made Hero: ISBN13: 9781910593875

Nicola Rossi reviewed the French edition for the Orwell Society here.

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Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal by George Packer

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN13: 9780374603663

George Packer edited two collections of Orwell’s shorter writings for American readers, Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays and All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays.

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Fiction

P by D. Rudd-Mitchell

P is published by Plastic Brain Press, ISBN13: 9781838166724

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They by Kay Dick

To be published 2022, Faber Editions, ISBN13: 9780571370863. (First published in 1977).

Lucy Scholes has compared They not only to the work of Orwell and Ray Bradbury but to Ann Quin and Anna Kavan.

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