This text is the outcome of years spent in Paris and months spent tramping south-east England. It depicts what life was like for a striving author who was struggling to write, painting a vivid picture of the life he led in the lower depths.

A journey through the life and thought of George Orwell, from public school satirist and imperial policeman to 'Animal Farm' and 'Nineteen Eighty Four'.

In 2012 John Sutherland permanently lost his sense of smell. At about the same time he embarked on a re-reading of George Orwell's works, and his lack of olfactory sense cast an entirely new light on the re-evaluation. What he now noticed was just how acutely attuned to scent Orwell was: rich descriptions of odours, fetors and reeks occur throughout his works. Orwell's Nose is an original and imaginative account of the life and work of George Orwell,...