Detailed, illuminating, accessible and engagingly partisan.Matthew Dennison, Country Life
Using Orwells 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 worlds leading Orwellian. What he offers here will raise any readers awareness of a writer whose reputation grows year on year as the world catches up with him.John Sutherland, author of Orwells Nose
