📚📚📚 My book A Bright Cold Day: The Wonder of George Orwell is out in paperback today (4 June 2026)! It re-reads Orwell's concern with politics and justice by seeing it through the magic of the ordinary. 📚📚📚 #georgeorwell #orwell @oneworldbooks.bsky.social oneworld-publications.com/work/a-brigh...
📚📚📚 My book A Bright Cold Day: The Wonder of George Orwell is out in paperback today (4 June 2026)! It re-reads Orwell's concern with politics and justice by seeing it through the magic of the ordinary. 📚📚📚 #georgeorwell #orwell @oneworldbooks.bsky.social oneworld-publications.com/work/a-brigh...
When we think about George Orwell, we imagine an angular, moustachioed sceptic crouched over a typewriter, who – between puffs on his cigarette – composes effortless streams of prose, unadorned but ex...
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When we think about George Orwell, we imagine an angular, moustachioed sceptic crouched over a typewriter, who – between puffs on his cigarette – composes effortless streams of prose, unadorned but ex...
Latest episode of my 'Reading Orwell' podcast is on its way soon. This one considers Orwell and Aldous Huxley, and how each thought they'd outdone the other in imagining the future. The text is here: drnjwaddell.co.uk/26_orwell-an...
Very excited to see this when it appears in May!
Nathan Waddell
Nathan Waddell
Ahead of the paperback release in June 2026 of my book A Bright Cold Day: The Wonder of George Orwell (@oneworldbooks.bsky.social), I spoke w/ John Burton about Orwell's ability to capture the magic of the seemingly ordinary. Available via YouTube & the usual podcast places. youtu.be/e0qQFCgCoZU?...
Paperback edition of my book A Bright Cold Day: The Wonder of George Orwell, out from @oneworldbooks.bsky.social in June 2026. oneworld-publications.com/work/a-brigh...
Oh hi there! Just me, casually appearing from a behind a big stack of US editions of LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK, because the book's out in America today! A huge thank you to @princetonupress.bsky.social 🐈⬛
Buy it here! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
My review of Robert Dale Parker's
'The Literature of Extreme Poverty in the Great Depression' is now live in the Review of English Studies, and I can't recommend this book highly enough. Check it out!
Latest episode of my 'Reading Orwell' podcast is on its way soon. This one considers Orwell and Aldous Huxley, and how each thought they'd outdone the other in imagining the future. The text is here: drnjwaddell.co.uk/26_orwell-an...
