4 January 2021
George Orwell died at University College Hospital, London, on 21 January 1950 at the early age of 46. This means that unlike such long-lived contemporaries as Graham Greene (died 1991) or Anthony Powell (died 2000), the vast majority of his compendious output (21 volumes to date) is newly out of copyright as of 1 January. Naturally, publishers - who have an eye for this kind of opportunity - have long been at work to take advantage of the expiry date and the next few months are set to bring a glut of repackaged editions.
