A George Orwell book checked out of a library in the United Kingdom 50 years ago was finally returned by a mortified borrower ...

The hard-cover book of George Orwell’s “Road to Wigan Pier” was due at the Hull Central Library all the way back in 1974. What would’ve been a hefty fee was eliminated thank… ...

Passers-by and drivers will have noticed that the clock in the tower of the former Orwell building at Wigan Pier has ...

The Orwell, the pub at Wigan Pier. Manchester’s emergence as the site and center of the industrial revolution was based on the “three C’s”: coal, cotton, and canals.

Paul Theroux’s latest novel revisits the young George Orwell’s experience as a ... —along with some reflective passages in “The Road to Wigan Pier” (1937) and his debut novel ...