Half a dozen of the greatest novels of the last century, each highly original and, once read, never forgotten. Smiley won a Pulitzer for her transposition of King Lear to the American Mid-We... read more
We are familiar with Sonia, but Orwell's remarkable first wife is usually overlooked. The author of a poem called 'End of the Century, 1984' (published in 1934), she was with him through the... read more