By Gordon Wright

£2.75

This booklet was first produced in the early 1980s for those coming to Jura to see where George Orwell had written his famous book - '1984'.

1984 has come and gone but visitors are still attracted to the isolated house at the north end of Jura which was home to Orwell for a few short years. This booklet provides a facinating insight to Orwell's life on Jura through the recollections of those who knew him.

Extract

'George Orwell first visited Jura in September 1945 on the recommendation of his friend David Astor, but it was in April 1946 that he finally came to live at Barnhill - a remote farmhouse at the north of the island... To the local people George Orwell was always known by his real name of Eric Blair. He made few friends while on the island, probably because of the isolation of where he was living, but those who knew him remember him as a quiet sad looking man who was dogged by ill-health.'

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Paperback booklet