Burma sahibBefore George Orwell was Orwell the pen name he took on becoming a writer he was Eric Blair, an unlikely policeman in Burma. 19 years old, unusually tall, highly intelligent, a diffident loner fresh from Eton, Blair stood out amongst his fellow trainees in 1920s Mandalay. It was here, over five years in the narrow colonial world of the Raj a decaying system steeped in overt racism and petty class conflict that Eric Blair became the George Orwell we

and wrote at least one poem under his name

Winner of Spain's Premio Biblioteca Breve

Ghana and America

and it is deep

Any civilisation that reveals its location is prey

Now we swim in freezing Arctic waters

First stop - a Baltimore coffee shop

a terrible accident occurs

She knelt down and picked some blades of grass

But then a Christian minister offers her a chance of salvation: a new life in Japan as his wife

before long

Can you love someone without the need for labels and commitment