Dennis Glover Dennis Glover i(A87573 works by)
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Dennis Glover has been an honorary visiting research fellow in the School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University. He has also worked as a speechwriter.

Most Referenced Works

Notes

  • Other works by Dennis Glover not individually indexed include:

    Repeat : The Warning from History (Black Inc. 2024)

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Factory 19 Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2020 18776405 2020 single work novel science fiction

'They tell us that human happiness lies only in the future. But what if it really lies in the past?

'Hobart, 2022- a city with declining population, in the grip of a dark recession. A rusty ship sails into the harbour and begins to unload its cargo on the site of the once famous but now abandoned Gallery of Future Art, known to the world as GoFA.

'One day the city's residents are awoken by a high-pitched sound no one has heard for two generations - a factory whistle. GoFA's owner, world-famous tycoon Dundas Faussett, is creating his most ambitious installation yet. He's going to defeat the internet's dominance over our lives by establishing a new Year Zero: 1948. Those whose jobs and lives have been destroyed by Amazon and Uber and Airbnb are invited to fight back in the only way that can possibly succeed" by living as if the internet and the smartphone had never been invented.

'The hold over our lives by Gates, Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg and the rest starts to loosen as the revolutionary example of Factory 19 spreads. Can nostalgia really defeat the future? Can the little people win back the world? We are about to find out.' (Publication summary) 

2021 shortlisted Russell Prize for Humour Writing
y separately published work icon The Last Man in Europe : A Novel Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2017 11476216 2017 single work novel historical fiction

'April, 1947. In a run-down farmhouse on a remote Scottish island, George Orwell begins his last and greatest work: Nineteen Eighty-Four.

'Forty-four years old and suffering from the tuberculosis that within three winters will take his life, Orwell comes to see the book as his legacy – the culmination of a career spent fighting to preserve the freedoms which the wars and upheavals of the twentieth century have threatened. Completing the book is an urgent challenge, a race against death.

'In this illuminating novel, Dennis Glover masterfully explores the creation of Orwell’s classic work, which for millions of readers worldwide defined the twentieth century. Simultaneously a captivating drama, a unique literary excavation and an unflinching portrait of a beloved British writer, The Last Man in Europe will change the way you understand Nineteen Eighty-Four.' (Publication summary)

2018 longlisted ASAL Awards ALS Gold Medal
2018 longlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) The Matt Richell Award for New Writer
2018 shortlisted Indie Awards Debut Fiction
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