Laura Beers

Orwell’s Ghosts is a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2025 in Biography and was named BBC History Magazine Book of the Year 2024. Seventy-five years after 1984 was first published, George Orwell is back in the public consciousness. Progressives denounce 'Orwellian' untruths by Trump, Johnson, Putin, and others, while conservatives accuse governments and mainstream media of 'Orwellian'...

**Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2025, Biography****BBC History Magazine Book of the Year 2024**Seventy-five years after 1984first published, George Orwell is back. Progressives denounce 'Orwellian' untruths by Trump, Johnson, Putin et al, while conservatives accuse governments and mainstream media of 'Orwellian' censorship. But what does 'Orwellian' really mean? What would the man himself say about these crises, and what...