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Tag: George Orwell

Review of ‘Burmese Days’ by George Orwell

05/07/2022 nsford 2 Comments

Orwell’s first novel is quite a tough read, not for the writing style but for the content. It’s based on…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, fiction, George Orwell, reviews

Review of ‘Orwell’s Roses’ by Rebecca Solnit

05/10/2021 nsford 4 Comments

A unique mix of biography, journalism, politics and nature writing, this is a very thought-provoking book. I found the content…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: biographies, books, George Orwell, history, non-fiction, plants, Rebecca Solnit, reviews

Film of the book: ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ (1984)

09/06/2020 nsford Leave a comment

George Orwell would have been impressed by this film, I’m sure. It’s very close to the book, with a lot…

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Posted in: Film & TV Filed under: books, fiction, films, George Orwell

Paperback writers and neverending stories: books in songs!

05/06/2020 nsford 11 Comments

Here’s a fun post for you, which I thought of while walking home through heavy rain one afternoon during lockdown.…

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Posted in: Music, Reading Filed under: books, Disney, George Orwell, H G Wells, Ian Dury, Jefferson Airplane, Kate Bush, music, Queen, Radiohead, reading, Semisonic, Simon and Garfunkel, Stephen Moore, The Beatles

10 writers I’d love to have coffee with – time travel edition!

05/03/2020 nsford 29 Comments

My previous post on writers I’d love to have coffee with was very popular. My blogger friend Ryan stole my…

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Posted in: Reading Filed under: books, Charlotte Brontë, classics, fiction, George Orwell, H G Wells, H P Lovecraft, Harper Lee, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Stella Gibbons, Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, writers

Review of ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ by George Orwell

07/12/2019 nsford 15 Comments

What can I say about this iconic and influential book which hasn’t already been said?! It’s 70 years since it…

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Posted in: Book Reviews Filed under: books, classics, dystopias, fiction, George Orwell, reviews

My mum’s favourite books

31/03/2019 nsford 25 Comments

As it’s Mother’s Day and my mum likes books as much as I do… Here are some of her favourites!…

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Posted in: Reading Filed under: books, Charles Dickens, Daphne du Maurier, E Nesbit, George Orwell, Jane Austen, L M Montgomery, Margaret Atwood, reading, Sophie Kinsella

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