On Books

Now known primarily for his epoch-defining novels, Orwell's status as a literary celebrity is equally attributable to his work as a book reviewer and literary critic, many of his writings now forming cornerstones of both disciplines.

The contents of this brand new collection span the author's career and range in tone from the personal - as in "Bookshop Memories", an autobiographical account of working in a bookshop, and the delightful "Confessions of a Book Reviewer" - to profound and incisive insights into the art of fiction, as in "New Words", in which the man who was to be famed for the invention of Newspeak discusses the ways in which writers and authors affect the formation and evolution of language as a whole.