Read Animal Farm

Experience the dystopian classic by George Orwell

A Muslim party wins the French presidency in 2022; Houellebecq published it the day of Charlie Hebdo.

Schoolboys on an island, a conch and a pig's head on a stick; civilisation lasts a week.

Becky Sharp climbs through Regency society without a heart; a novel without a hero.

A nature columnist sent by mistake to cover an African war; Waugh's Fleet Street satire.

Earth is demolished for a bypass; 42 and a towel.

Orwell fights in the Spanish Civil War, is shot through the throat and sees the revolution betrayed.

Orwell as a dishwasher and a tramp; poverty from the inside.