Description
Date: 14th October 2026, 7pm
Venue: David's Bookshop. This is an in person event (not available to attend online)
Event to start at 7pm, doors opening 6:30pm.
Please note there are no physical tickets, your name will be added to a guestlist after purchasing and this will get you entry at the event. Ticket prices will be redeemable against copies of the books on the night.
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Author event & book signing
George Orwell: Life and Legacy is an intellectual biography which offers an authentic account of Orwell's life and work from his birth in the high noon of British imperialism in 1903, to his death on the eve of the Cold War in 1950—a life played out against a background of two world wars, the rise of communism, and the war-time pre-eminence of the United States. Yet no matter how alert he was to the world order, and no matter how guarded he was in his personal life, Orwell never shied away from the question of who he was, and the contradictions that entailed. His two great modern masterpieces Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) arrived to define the age he lived in.
Interest in him has never abated since; no writer is more quoted or misquoted. Orwell is in danger of being lost to soundbites. Colls reveals the author once again.
