Dennis Glover

April 1947. In a run-down farmhouse on a remote Scottish island, George Orwell begins his last and greatest work—Nineteen Eighty-Four. Forty-four years old and suffering from the tuberculosis that within three winters will take his life, Orwell comes to see the book as his legacy—the culmination of a career spent fighting to preserve the freedoms which the wars and upheavals...

In the spirit of George Orwell's Animal Farm comes a darkly funny satire on technology, the gig economy, and the smartphone - and what would happen if we re-created a world without them. We're told that the future will be brighter. But what if human happiness really lies in the past? Hobart, 2022 - a city with a declining population,...

Orwell's Australia argues that, in an era of global war and national insecurity, the Australian left must once again become the defenders of our way of life and political institutions—just as Orwell wanted the English left to do over half a century ago. The left needs to reclaim Orwell for Australia's good. Orwell has two key messages that speak directly...

Are we about to see history repeat? 'Do you ever stop and ask, 'Is it all going to happen again?' - Siegfried Sassoon We live in an age that seems eerily familiar. A time of dictators, populists, organised lying, European wars, grabs for territory, ideological extremism and even antisemitism, a time when things are falling apart and the centre is...

Some secrets won't stay buried. Scott's lost expedition was still here, she thought - frozen, preserved, waiting to be rescued from the thaw. The truth lay beneath the surface, and she was going to bring it up. In 1912, five British explorers struggle across the freezing Antarctic landscape, through howling winds and plummeting temperatures, seeking the safety of their camp....