1984 by George Orwell

1984 by George Orwell1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 is still the great modern classic of "negative utopia" a startlingly original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary world that is convincing, from the first sentence to the last four words. No one can deny the novel's hold on the imaginations of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions a power

The climate crisis asks us to imagine other forms of human existence—a task to which fiction

And if all the gods are dead

The 'scientific worldview' has become a belief system

a year after Kafka’s death

He also remembers the people he knew

'Sephy is a Cross: dark-skinned and beautiful

In this beautifully written

and the panic attacks that have begun to take over her life

From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed

The source of all innovation in any organisation is its people

her harrowing escape through China's underworld of smugglers and human traffickers

The Trumpet of the Swan