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Jonathan’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jonathan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Jonathan Payne
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Citizen Orlov (Citizen Orlov #1)
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Hotel Melikov (Citizen Orlov #2)
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Croatian translation
The Croatian translation of CITIZEN ORLOV is now available from VBZ Books. Translation by Neven Anticevic. Cover illustration by Milan Trenc, the creator of The Night at the Museum.
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“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
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"I love this series. The first crossed my path via a Bookbub/Kobo promotion, and it was the surprise book of that year, for me. This second book is quite possibly better. I can’t help wondering whether anyone else who has read this imagines it - just "
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"I loved the sequel to "Citizen Orlov" and the continuing story of this ordinary and earnest fishmonger, who has a knack for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and tries to do the right thing anyway. Jonathan Payne does a great job of depicti"
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"This installment of Citizen Orlov's escapades does not fall from the first one. It is suspenseful, clever and engaging. Orlov is a Chauncy Gardner kind of character, whose actions left me wondering - doesn't he have an opinion of his own on what's go"
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“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”
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“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grammes a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”
― 1984
― 1984
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be REDUCED to twenty grammes a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”
― 1984
― 1984
“We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.”
― The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, The Accident
― The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, The Accident
“The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.”
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