The Orwell Prize Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Sally Hayden's 'My Fourth Time, We Drowned' - the winner of The Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2022 - has just picked up the Royal Irish Academy Michel Déon Prize. Find out more about the book and why it matters: https://t.co/3gdFu3cc3c

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A reminder that you can read Ilona Mannon's book review of 'Radio Empire' on our blog. If you are a postgraduate student or an early-career researcher and would like to review a book for us, please get in touch! https://t.co/Z6kReKdxjF

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"There's a conversation with George Orwell, who @MargaretAtwood says drastically changed her life; and there's even a parallel reality to the author's 1985 dystopian novel, The Handmaid's Tale, where men are the ones being controlled." https://t.co/Jhx6WTDCJ7

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Orwell's caustic novel #KeeptheAspidistraFlying is heavily inspired by his own time working as a bookseller in #Hampstead. Take a guided walk around the locations behind the book - and more - at this year's Orwell Festival, 11th June! Tickets here: https://t.co/cQz49MvqBV https://t.co/f5eBHORJDP https://t.co/z31pRVlpgS

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"Orwell perfectly encapsulates how people can destroy their own relationships through their stubbornness and refusal to let people help them." A great review of a great book (and often underappreciated, we think) - George Orwell's early novel 'Keep the Aspidistra Flying'. https://t.co/f5eBHORJDP

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David Graeber and David Wengrow's #orwellprize shortlisted #TheDawnofEverything reviewed here by @natalieben. https://t.co/szteSgYG4p

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"It could very well have been a Zimbabwean novel..." A fascinating piece by NoViolet Bulawayo, whose @TheBookerPrizes-shortlisted novel 'Glory' draws inspiration from George Orwell's 'Animal Farm': https://t.co/kyWhCfhzKz

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What can we learn from Orwell's roses? Our most recent @SubstackInc fts an exclusive review of Rebecca Solnit's new book (@GrantaBooks) exploring the deep links between Orwell's political commitments and his love of nature - and their resonances today: https://t.co/QNDQ9LnUZR

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Barbara Demick (@BarbaraDemick) tell us about her "fascinating, sometimes harrowing, but intensely human" book, EAT THE BUDDHA , pub. @GrantaBooks and shortlisted for The Orwell Prize for Political Writing, in the latest of our Q+As: https://t.co/BD1joWF2Bp

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"George Orwell’s faur-kent novel Animal Fairm... has been translatit intae Scots for the verra first time by Thomas Clark." @LuathPress https://t.co/vQz5FclN3I