Dr Nathan Waddell, Senior Lecturer in Early Twentieth-Century and Modernist Literature and editor of The Cambridge Companion to 'Nineteen Eighty-Four', invited Dorian Lynskey, author of The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell's "1984", to the Department of English Literature for an 'In Conversation' event. 

Dorian Lynskey has written about music, film, books, and politics for titles including The GuardianThe ObserverGQQEmpireBillboardThe New Statesman, and The Spectator. He is the author of 33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs and The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell's 1984.