George Orwell: A Reader's Guide

D. J. Taylor is an award-winning novelist, critic, and biographer. His book Orwell: The Life won the 2003 Whitbread Prize for Biography, and Orwell: The New Life was published in 2023. His books include two Booker-longlisted novels and a life of Thackeray.

“Detailed, illuminating, accessible and engagingly partisan.”—Matthew Dennison, Country Life“Using Orwell’s life, and his writings and novels of the time, on which he is an expert, Taylor explores certain themes in depth.”—Richard Harries, Church Times“From the foothills of early Orwell, when he was searching for a style and a politics, to the stunning vistas of his later years, Taylor shows the way. No one knows the trails better.”—Robert Colls, author of George Orwell: English Rebel“Full of new intriguing insights, as one has come to expect from any melding of the inquisitive minds of Taylor and Orwell.”—Sylvia Topp, author of Eileen: The Making of George Orwell“D. J. Taylor knows Orwell back to front and inside out, and he wears his immense knowledge lightly. Insightful, provocative and entertaining.”—Dorian Lynskey, author of The Ministry of Truth“D. J. Taylor is the world’s leading Orwellian. What he offers here will raise any reader’s awareness of a writer whose reputation grows year on year as the world catches up with him.”—John Sutherland, author of Orwell’s Nose