Tag: George Orwell
The making of… Criterion’s 1984 DVD
It’s eight months since my book George Orwell on Screen came out in America, and I’m still not rich. Far from it, actually. But being a published author has opened doors for me, I must admit. The very talented AL Kennedy wrote an effusive foreword for it, which pleased me no end, as did the fact that Orwell biographer DJ […]
Judging my book by its cover
I Googled myself last night. It had been a while since I’d heard from my publishers, and my English diffidence prevents me from sending them a ‘hey, what’s happening?’ email. Part of me suspects that an email of theirs has vanished into the ether. Anyway, I was keen to learn whether my forthcoming book, George […]
Crazy old Bagan
Return to Wigan Pier
I was in Wigan the other day – a flying visit, really – for a weekend of events to celebrate George Orwell. Eighty years on from The Road to Wigan Pier‘s publication, townspeople, local dignitaries and the Orwell Society were putting on a show. Several, in fact. Though I was snowed under with work, I’d […]
Indiana Jones, Winston Smith and the Black Orchid
When Orwell met Moriarty
I was reading a graphic novel the other day – a library book that had caught my eye, about the adventures of Professor James Moriarty. It was dreary stuff, self-consciously dark and moody as these things tend to be. I ploughed my way through it late one evening, determined, like the half-hearted Holmesian I am, […]
Orwellians on Jura
I joined the Orwell Society about a year-and-a-half ago, partly because of a book I’m writing. I won’t say too much about it here – one of these days I’ll launch a Kickstarter campaign – but I like to quip that it’s the least intellectual book about George Orwell ever. The society was founded in […]
It was a bright cold day in April
A little over a week ago, I read something thrilling on the Orwell Society‘s Facebook page. A group called the Luxury Book Club would be discussing Nineteen Eighty-Four in London’s Genesis Cinema on 12 April – after which, Michael Radford’s film adaptation (the John Hurt one, made in 1984) would cheap nba jerseys get a […]