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Oh brother! It's totalitarianism with a side order of Negronis

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Julia by Sandra Newman and The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith.

Rejoice, comrades

George Orwell apologised to his close friends the writers Anthony Powell and Julian Symons for his novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. He told one that it was “a good idea ruined” and the other that “I ballsed it up rather, partly owing to being so ill while I was writing it.”

This ambitious retelling from Julia’s point of view gives Winston Smith’s lover the agency she lacked

‘Orwellian’ is an accusation increasingly levelled by both right and left but what does it mean, asks author Sandra Newman, who has reimagined Orwell’s novel – and why does Orwell’s dystopian classic speak so powerfully to our current moment?

The first of today's two races was defined by a wild first corner clash that left just five cars running.

Remember, you’re always being watched.

The V8-powered series will make its debut at the rural Victorian circuit as part of the Race Winton event.

IT seems impossible in an era when football managers are subjected to more intense scrutiny than Winston Smith was in the dystopian George Orwell…

In January 2017, Donald Trump’s advisor Kellyanne Conway was quizzed on White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s false claims about the number of attendees at the president’s inauguration. When pressed on why Spicer would “utter a provable falsehood”, Conway said that Spicer was offering “alternative facts”.