
April, 1947. In a run-down farmhouse on a remote Scottish island, George Orwell begins his last and greatest work: Nineteen Eighty-Four . Forty-three years old and suffering from the tuberculosis that within three winters will take his life, Orwell comes to see the book as his...

Simultaneously a captivating drama, a unique literary excavation, and an unflinching portrait of a writer, Dennis Glover's novel The Last Man in Europe will change the way we understand both our enduringly Orwellian times and Nineteen Eighty-Four. "Imaginative...


"There are just a few writers whose work is so distinctive, definitive, and important their very name describes a whole world, like 'Orwellian.' Dennis Glover has written a novel that captures George Orwell as he began to write the book he saw as the culmination of all...

April 1947. In a run-down farmhouse on a remote Scottish island, George Orwell begins his last and greatest work- Nineteen Eighty-Four Forty-four years old and suffering from the tuberculosis that within three winters will take his life, Orwell comes to see the book as his legacy...

"There are just a few writers whose work is so distinctive, definitive, and important their very name describes a whole world, like 'Orwellian.' Dennis Glover has written a novel that captures George Orwell as he began to write the book he saw as the culmination of all...