SixBySix is back for a very special evening with the book launch and premiere of Craig Easton’s new work An Extremely Un-get-atable Place: George Orwell on Jura.
Join Craig and his SixBySix colleagues at Ropes & Twines in Liverpool on Thursday 23rd October (7-10pm) for a complimentary glass of wine or bottle of beer to help celebrate this special event.
An Extremely Un-get-atable Place, is a lyrical exploration and re-imagining of the time that Orwell spent at Barnhill, the remote farmhouse on the Isle of Jura in the Hebrides, where between 1946 - 1949 he lived and wrote his classic dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
The work is about hope, about finding joy in the small things in life and believing in a better future in a world of political turmoil.
In 2023 Craig was invited to stay at Barnhill – 8 miles from the nearest road and almost unchanged since the time Orwell lived there.
Barnhill was Orwell’s escape. His place of hope, a place of peace & calm where he could build a future.
Orwell was dying, but after the untimely death of his wife, Eileen, he was determined to cling on to life to maintain hope and belief in the future, if not for him then for their son and for humanity. He believed in a better future and counsels us against tyrants.
He planted trees, grew vegetables, fished, kept chickens & had visitors galore. His diaries & letters are full of plans for the future.
The book is being published by GOST and copies will be available for purchase at the event.
