Coming Up for Air

· Penguin UK
4.3
7 reviews
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288
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Years in insurance and marriage to the joyless Hilda have been no more than death in life to George Bowling. This and fear of another war take his mind back to the peace of his childhood in a small country town. But his return journey to Lower Binfield brings complete disillusionment.

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4.3
7 reviews
The Pumpking King
10 April 2019
From the shop girl getting berated by her boss, the great king of Bashan Og to meating again his first love after a lifetime of Marriage, two kids and a house in the suburbs. The threat of the War comes to close to home for George.
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Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell, was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. His novels and non-fiction include Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia.

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