Orwell on Jura: Jeremy Malies

“Nineteen Eighty-Four” on Jura

“My new book is a Utopia in the form of a novel. I ballsed it up rather, partly owing to being
so ill while I was writing it,
but I think some of the ideas in it might interest you.”

George Orwell to Julian Symons, 4 February 1949

 

Jeremy Malies on Jura for 75th anniversary of publication

 

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Why Jura?

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The hotel, distillery, library

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The walk to Barnhill

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A night in the hotel

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Tarbert Bay

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