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excellent

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Paul W. B. Marsden's avatar

Great post Elif. Read more about how Orwell came to write 1984 in my book - ‘Darkness in 1984’ - my new George Orwell historical fiction novel, set in Blaenau Ffestiniog, in North Wales, is out now.

Based on true events.

‘Darkness in 1984’ available from Amazon - https://tinyurl.com/4twzftfr

Christmas 1945 - George Orwell, recently widowed, arrives with his baby son to stay with his friend Arthur Koestler at a remote cottage, Bwlch Ocyn, in North Wales.

Orwell has just published ‘Animal Farm’ and mulls ideas with Koestler for his next novel. Koestler had written the acclaimed novel, ‘Darkness at Noon,’ about the Stalin show trials and also spent time in a Nazi prison. Both Orwell and Koestler supported the Republican government during the civil war in Spain and were dedicated to democratic Left causes.

Here for the first time are their imagined conversations in wintry Wales, based on true events, which produced one of the 20th Century’s greatest and darkest books, ‘1984.’

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