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'No ordinary pop biography, this is a very personal exploration of a very unusual artist' – Dorian Lynskey 'A beautiful, frequently extraordinary book. Part biography, part social commentary and part love letter, it somehow does full justice to the magnificent man it examines' – James...

There is no shortage of earnest books about the cultural significance of musicians like David Bowie, Bob Dylan, and John Lennon. But George Michael does not attract such attention. The music he produced is not generally deemed worthy of serious analysis, yet such dismissals overlook how...

Hello there, my name is Matt Homer and welcome to Homer’s Podyssey: Conversations on Purpose.Let me tell you exactly what this new venture is all about.Over the years, I have had the pleasure of meeting a host of really kind, generous and talented people all with really exciting stories to tell. These include producers, musicians, actors, writers and researchers; and that's just for starters!I gave this podcast the subtitle “Conversations on Purpose” because I wanted to find a word which unifies the different discussions that I hope to have on the show. That word, for me, was “purpose...

Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian social science fiction novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, it centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance and repressive regimentation of people and behaviours within society. Orwell, a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian state in the novel on Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany.