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On my radar: Bobby Baker’s cultural highlights

The artist on a moving biography of George Orwell’s wife, a theatre company that should be available on the NHS, and the joy of a good crime drama

The Guardian - UK · Mar 8, 2025

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in February

Authors, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

The Guardian - UK · Feb 29, 2024

Wifedom by Anna Funder audiobook review – the first Mrs Orwell

The Australian writer explores the Nineteen Eighty-Four author’s treatment of women in an empathetic biography of his first wife, Eileen O’Shaughnessy

The Guardian - UK · Feb 23, 2024

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The best memoirs and biographies of 2023

The rise of Madonna, Barbra Streisand in her own words, plus the stormy relationship of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor are among this year’s highlights

The Guardian - UK · Dec 7, 2023

Sadistic and misogynistic? Row erupts over sex claims in book about George Orwell’s marriage

Author of acclaimed biography Wifedom hits back at critics who say book casts Orwell in an unfairly negative light

The Guardian - UK · Nov 11, 2023

Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner’s divorce is making the media ask the worst questions

The singer and actor’s divorce is nobody’s business – but the tabloid narrative that she’s a party lover while he’s a devoted father should be questioned

The Guardian - US · Sep 9, 2023

Wifedom by Anna Funder review – Mrs Orwell comes up for air

The Stasiland author re-examines the short life of George Orwell’s first wife, Eileen O’Shaughnessy, in an effort to give her a voice

The Guardian - UK · Aug 13, 2023

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Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life by Anna Funder review – inside a troubled marriage

This feminist reimagining of the fierce and witty Eileen O’Shaughnessy strips her of agency all over again

The Guardian - UK · Aug 10, 2023

The Guardian view on invisible women: cancelled by history, restored with care

Editorial: A new book on George Orwell’s first wife examines how Eileen O’Shaughnessy’s life was erased

The Guardian - UK · Aug 6, 2023

Afternoon Update: hope lost of finding Taipan crash crew; Sydney records hottest July; and the wife behind a famous author

The defence minister, Richard Marles, has said a thorough investigation will be launched after a helicopter crashed on a training mission in Queensland

The Guardian - AU · Jul 31, 2023

Looking for Eileen: how George Orwell wrote his wife out of his story

Anna Funder explains how the search for Eileen O’Shaughnessy, a compelling figure strangely absent from Orwell’s writing, illuminated her own life

The Guardian - UK · Jul 30, 2023

Wifedom by Anna Funder review – a brilliant reckoning with George Orwell to change the way you read

Blending forensic research, fiction, life writing and criticism, Funder upends the legacy of literary triumph to reveal the woman behind it

The Guardian - AU · Jul 6, 2023

‘Exciting’, ‘bold’, ‘laugh out loud’: the best Australian books out in July

Each month, Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

The Guardian - AU · Jul 5, 2023

Anna Funder rescues George Orwell's wife Eileen from being 'cancelled by the patriarchy' – and reminds us he's a sexual predator

In the summer of 2017, Anna Funder found herself “at a moment of peak overload”. Juggling the competing demands of getting her children ready for the new school year, grocery shopping, home maintenance and caring for members of her extended family, Funder felt she had been spiritually drained by the…

The Conversation · Jul 2, 2023

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Chronicle Live · Feb 13, 2023

Blue plaque commemorating South Shields-born writer and wife of George Orwell unveiled in Sunderland

Poet and journalist, Eileen O’Shaughnessy was an Oxford-scholar who went on to marry the renowned author

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