Nineteen Eighty-Four Nineteen Eighty-Four Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel by English writer George Orwell published in June 1949. The novel is set in the year 1984 when most of the world population have become victims of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and propaganda. In the novel, Great Britain ("Airstrip One") has become a province of a superstate named Oceania. Oceania is ruled by the "Party", who employ the "Thought Police" to persecute individualism and independent thinking. The Party's leader is Big Brother, who enjoys an intense cult of personality but may not even exist. The protagonist of
The Refuge (novel) The Refuge (novel) The Refuge (1954) is the final novel by Australian author Kenneth Mackenzie. Late one night Lloyd Fitzherbert, who works as a police reporter for the Sydney "Gazette", is called to Sydney Harbour where the body of a young woman has been found. The woman is Fiztherbert's lover and, as is immediately obvious, he is the one who killed here. Reviewing the 2015 re-issue of the novel, Peter Craven, in "The Sydney Morning Herald", noted that the novel "is some kind of psychological thriller and it is not one of the books by which all others are to