Big Brother, Thoughtcrime, Newspeak, Doublethink, Room 101. The ominous jargon coined by George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four, his last and greatest novel, are understood even by those who have yet to read the book. Marking 75 years after initial publication in 1949, from post-war to post-Brexit, Folio presents a revolutionary limited edition of one of the most influential novels ever written. Published in an election year that promises to be a pivotal one in the book’s history, the dystopian warnings of Nineteen Eighty-Four feel even more urgent and terrifyingly familiar. Created with full approval of the Orwell Foundation, with a stirring introduction by Elif Shafak, the award-winning British-Turkish author of The Forty Rules of Love – and whose novel The Bastard of Istanbul brought censure from the Turkish government – this momentous edition casts a fresh, more diverse light on Orwell’s universal text.

A two-man team from multi-award-winning design studio La Boca have contributed eight kaleidoscopic new illustrations, along with a striking endpaper design and a hypnotic foil-blocked cover. Encased in a mirrored presentation box that holds several, subversive hidden extras, this unique edition has been designed to unpack the book’s ideas like never before. Strictly limited to 750 hand-numbered copies signed by Elif Shafak and La Boca, this special anniversary edition sheds a new and galvanising light on this timeless dystopian novel, a book that demands to be read and re-read for generations to come.