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Homage to Catalonia

“Homage to Catalonia” by George Orwell

18 July 2011 · Reading · Comments { 8 }

Homage to Catalonia is many books in one. It is a piece of journalism – Orwell initially went to Spain in the 1930s to report on the Spanish Civil War. It is also a war memoir, because Orwell was immediately convinced that enlisting in the fight against fascism rather than merely writing about it was [...]

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Sheer egoism

1 March 2009 · On the Holloway Road · Comments { 2 }

Yes, I went around bookshops looking for my book on the shelves. And I started taking photos of it… OK, so it’s not very cool. It’s not something I could picture Salman Rushdie or Iam McEwan doing. But I enjoyed it!

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