It’s Banned Book Week!

To celebrate, we’re highlighting the best best of the books we once considered ‘too much’!

Today, we’re spotlighting Animal Farm.

Banned in Russia due to its criticism of the communist regime, this novel holds a unique place in contemporary culture. Railing against the conformity of totalitarianism, Orwell’s novel was weaponised by the CIA, who funded an animated film adaptation of the novel in 1955. Sitting between the two binaristic poles of Totalitarianism and Individualism, Animal Farm is just as striking and important today, as it was at the height of The Cold War.

Order your copy today directly through October Books or buy online through our bookshop store and we’ll get a commission on your purchase.

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Paperback £8.99

When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought, and find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another.

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