Natasha Brown & Gabriel Gatehouse
Tuesday 17 June 2025 @ 18:30Join us at Waterstones Gower Street for an evening celebrating some of this year's Orwell Prize finalists. This event will bring together authors shortlisted for this year’s Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and Orwell Prize for Political Writing to re… find out more
Orwell Prize Masterclass with Peter Apps
Tuesday 17 June 2025 @ 19:00 - 21:00In this Arvon Masterclass Peter Apps, author of the Orwell Prize-winning Show Me The Bodies, will discuss the techniques of approaching subjects for interview, getting the most out of the interview itself, and what comes next, and will cover the most pres… find out more
Mishal Husain & Simon Parkin in conversation with Thangam Debbonaire
Thursday 19 June 2025 @ 18:30The lives of Mishal Husain’s grandparents changed forever in 1947, as the new nation states of India and Pakistan were born. For years she had a partial story made up of memories and anecdotes. Decades later, the fragment of an old sari sent Mishal on a… find out more
Benefit of Clergy: Helen Lewis and Nathan Waddell
Monday 23 June 2025 @ 18:30Art, morality and the "genius myth"... "The important thing is not to denounce him as a cad who ought to be horsewhipped, or to defend him as a genius who ought not to be questioned, but to find out why he exhibits that particular set of aberrations." Ge… find out more
The Orwell Festival: Orwell’s World?
Wednesday 25 June 2025ORWELL’S WORLD? 27 May - 25 June BLOOMSBURY, LONDON www.orwellfestival.co.uk “WE ARE ALL LIVING IN ORWELL’S WORLD NOW.” The New York Times Is Orwell’s vision our reality? The Orwell Festival is returning to Lond… find out more