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The definitive biography of one of the greatest writers of the the twentieth century.
Over seventy years since his premature death, George Orwell (1903-50) has become one of the most significant figures in western literature. His two dystopian masterpieces, Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) have together sold over 40 million copies. Even now, he continues to exert a decisive influence on our understanding of international power-politics.
D.J. Taylor's new biography, the first full-length study for 20 years, draws on a wide range of previously unseen material - newly-discovered letters to old girlfriends and professional colleagues, the recollections of the dwindling band of people who remember him, new information about his life in the early 1930s - to produce a definitive portrait of this complex, driven and self-mythologising man.

From the author of the definitive biography of George Orwell, a captivating account of the origin and enduring power of his landmark dystopian novel
Since its publication nearly 70 years ago, George Orwell's 1984 has been regarded as one of the most influential novels of the modern age. Politicians have testified to its influence on their intellectual identities, rock musicians have made records about it, TV viewers watch a reality sh

Glamorous Alice Keach is one of 1930s London's foremost hostesses. Despite humble American origins, she has secured her place in high society through marriage to one of England's wealthiest bachelors. But Alice has a secret. Its roots run years back, and miles away, to the dust-blasted prairies of Kansas. It corncerns a lost little boy left under the haphazard guidance of an eccentric uncle. Now, a visit from America looks set to blow apart Alice's glittering pre-eminence forever.

It's Derby Day and all of England is heading for the Epsom Downs. Society beauties rub shoulders with Whitechapel street girls, as every class of society gathers with high hopes and taut nerves for the greatest race of the year. All through winter, from London to France, plans have been laid, money exchanged, disputes begun. And uniting the destinies of old Mr Gresham and his tigerish daughter, the rakish Mr Happerton and his crony Captain Raff, brooding Mr Davenant, Mr Pardew the burglar and detective Captain McTurk is the champion horse Tiberius. In this rich and exuberant novel, rife with the idioms of Victorian England, the mysteries pile high, propelling us towards the day of the great race, and we wait with bated breath as the story gallops to a finish that no one expects. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011.

‘Terrific’ Daily Mail ‘Tremendous’ Guardian ‘Page-turning’ The Times ‘Gripping’ Daily Telegraph Autumn 1939. In an alternative world, where Edward VIII still sits on the throne, storm clouds gather over Europe, German troops amass and a ‘King’s Party’ of fascist peace campaigners is stealthily undermining the war effort. For Cynthia Kirkpatrick, the war brings a new-found freedom – lunchtime drinks at the Ritz, rented attic rooms, late-night rackety parties and intriguing new acquaintances. But two new friends loom larger than others, her glamorous colleague Anthea and Tyler, an enigmatic American working at the Embassy. Initially Cynthia is dazzled by them both but soon discovers they have secrets which could prove dangerous, both to her and the country at large…

As the shadows lengthen over the June grass, all England is heading for Epsom Downs - high life and low life, society beauties and Whitechapel street girls, bookmakers and gypsies, hawkers and acrobats, punters and thieves. Whole families stream along the Surrey back-roads, towards the greatest race of the year. Hopes are high, nerves are taut, hats are tossed in the air - this is Derby Day. For months people have been waiting and plotting for this day. Even in dark November, when the wind whistles through the foggy London courts, the alehouses and gentlemen's clubs echo to the sound of disputed odds. In Belgrave Square old Mr Gresham is…

Autumn 1939. In a parallel world where Edward VIII never abdicated and the Second World War might have taken a very different course… Storm clouds gather over Europe, German troops amass and a ‘King’s Party’ of fascist peace campaigners is stealthily undermining the war-effort. Country house parties teem with conspiring Tory MPs, an American Embassy clerk pilfers Presidential telegrams and paranoia grips MI5. In the offices of Duration magazine Cynthia Kirkpatrick finds herself at the centre of a web of intrigue. Journalist Beverley Nichols is engaged on the most important commission of his life – a speech for King Edward VIII that will shock the nation. As history threatens to derail, both learn that taking sides can be a very dangerous business.

It's Derby Day and all of England is heading for the Epsom Downs. Society beauties rub shoulders with Whitechapel street girls, as every class of society gathers with high hopes and taut nerves for the greatest race of the year.

All through winter, from London to France, plans have been laid, money exchanged, disputes begun. And uniting the destinies of old Mr Gresham and his tigerish daughter, the rakish Mr Happerton and his crony Captain Raff, brooding Mr Davenant, Mr Pardew the burglar and detective Captain McTurk is the champion horse Tiberius.

In this rich and exuberant novel, rife with the idioms of Victorian England, the mysteries pile high, propelling us towards the day of the great race, and we wait with bated breath as the story gallops to a finish that no one expects.

Англия. 1863 год. Загадочная гибель богатого аристократа Генри Айрленда... Несчастный случай? Нет. Убийство. И чтобы расследовать это убийство, надо быть гением сыска... или по крайней мере капитаном полиции Мактурком. Ему единственному удается понять, что смерть Айрленда - лишь одно из звеньев в цепи множества преступлений, краж, похищений и шантажа - цепи, протянувшейся от Шотландского нагорья до Франции. Куда приведет Мактурка следующий поворот расследования? В провинциальную глубинку? В гостиные представителей высшего света? Или на самое дно Лондона? Не важно - ведь опасность подстерегает его на каждом шагу...

Англия. 1863 год.

Загадочная гибель богатого аристократа Генри Айрленда...

Несчастный случай? Нет. Убийство.

И чтобы расследовать это убийство, надо быть гением сыска... или по крайней мере капитаном полиции Мактурком.

Ему единственному удается понять, что смерть Айрленда - лишь одно из звеньев в цепи множества преступлений, краж, похищений и шантажа - цепи, протянувшейся от Шотландского нагорья до Франции.

Куда приведет Мактурка следующий поворот расследования?

В провинциальную глубинку?

В гостиные представителей высшего света?

Или на самое дно Лондона?

Не важно - ведь опасность подстерегает его на каждом шагу...

Англия. 1863 год.
Загадочная гибель богатого аристократа Генри Айрленда...
Несчастный случай? Нет. Убийство.
И чтобы расследовать это убийство, надо быть гением сыска... или по крайней мере капитаном полиции Мактурком.
Ему единственному удается понять, что смерть Айрленда - лишь одно из звеньев в цепи множества преступлений, краж, похищений и шантажа - цепи, протянувшейся от Шотландского нагорья до Франции.
Куда приведет Мактурка следующий поворот расследования?
В провинциальную глубинку?
В гостиные представителей высшего света?
Или на самое дно Лондона?
Не важно - ведь опасность подстерегает его на каждом шагу...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WHITBREAD BIOGRAPHY AWARD
'Definitive' Daily Telegraph
Orwell has become one of the most potent and symbolic figures in western political thought. Even the adjective 'Orwellian' is now a byword for a particular way of thinking about life, literature and language yet, despite this iconic status, the man who was born Eric Blair in 1903 remains an enigma.
Drawing on a mass of previously unseen material, D J Taylor offers a strikingly human portrait of the writer too often embalmed as a secular saint. Here is a man who, for all his outward unworldliness, effectively stage-managed his own life; who combined chilling detachment with warmth and gentleness, disillusionment with hope; who battled through illness to produce two of the greatest masterpieces of the twentieth century.
Moving and revealing, Taylor's Orwell is the biography we have all been waiting for, as vibrant, powerful and resonant as its extraordinary hero.

Book Description At last, a fresh, comprehensive biography of the twentieth century's most emblematic writer In the last fifty years, Animal Farm and 1984 have sold over forty million copies, and "Orwellian" is now a byword

Da Manhattan alla City, nel vortice delle società di consulenza aziendale, della finanza di rapina, degli affari facili e quasi sempre sporchi, l'americanissimo Scott Marshall perde il controllo della propria vita, ingannato da un mondo in cui ha appreso a praticare con entusiasmo il gioco dell'inganno. Esperto di una finanza senza patria, ma incapace di comprendere gli uomini, le donne, i riti, il sistema di caste dell'enigmatica patria di adozione, resta sempre ancorato ai ricordi della sua «prima» vita americana che, alla fine, si materializzano tragicamente nel suo rifugio londinese. Anche il padre ha perso il controllo della propria…

Since its publication nearly seventy years ago, George Orwell's 1984 has been regarded as one of the most influential novels of the modern age. Politicians have testified to its influence on their intellectual identities, rock musicians have made records about it, TV viewers watch a reality show named for it, and a White House spokesperson tells of «alternative facts.» The world we live in is often described as an Orwellian one, awash in inescapable surveillance and invasions of privacy. On 1984 dives deep into Orwell's life to chart his earlier writings and key moments in his youth, such as his years at a boarding school that's strict and charismatic headmaster shaped the idea of Big Brother. Taylor tells the story of the writing of the book, taking listeners to the Scottish island of Jura, where Orwell, newly famous thanks to Animal Farm but coping with personal tragedy and rapidly declining health, struggled to finish 1984. Published during the cold war-a term Orwell coined-Taylor elucidates the environmental influences on the book. Then he examines 1984's post-publication life, including its role as a tool to understand our language, politics, and government.