 What are the links between political engagement and our engagement with the natural world? In our Book of the Week, Orwell's Roses, Rebecca Solnit takes a rose garden planted by George Orwell as the starting point for a meandering journey through his life, writings and motivations, and through much else besides, arriving at a more nuanced and somehow hopeful assessment of what it means to care about the state of the world in our own century.
 What are the links between political engagement and our engagement with the natural world? In our Book of the Week, Orwell's Roses, Rebecca Solnit takes a rose garden planted by George Orwell as the starting point for a meandering journey through his life, writings and motivations, and through much else besides, arriving at a more nuanced and somehow hopeful assessment of what it means to care about the state of the world in our own century. 
>>Read Stella's review. 
>>Rebecca Solnit and Margaret Atwood!
>>A new perspective. 
>>Pleasure and flowers. 
>>The written political project. 
>>The Orwell Foundation. 
>>Your copy is ready for you. 
>>Other books by Rebecca Solnit. 
>>Some books by and about George Orwell. 
