
An Extremely Un-Get-Atable Place
- Publisher
- GOST Books
- Year
- 2025
- ISBN
- 978-1-80598-014-8
- Specifications
- Hardback
270 x 330 mm
100 pages
58 images
Printed in tri-tone
Text by Richard Blair
Includes an 8-page section reproducing handwritten manuscript material
First book of 'An Island Trilogy'
An Extremely Un-Get-Atable Place is a lyrical reimagining of the time that writer George Orwell lived at Barnhill, a remote farmhouse on the Isle of Jura in Scotland. It was here that Orwell wrote his landmark book Nineteen Eighty-Four, a dire warning of the dangers of totalitarianism and political despotism. Photographer Craig Easton was invited to stay at Barnhill—largely unchanged since Orwell's time—where he made a series of landscape and still life images. In Easton's book, these photographs are presented alongside extracts from Orwell's letters and diaries written on the island, printed in beautiful tri-tone, together with a special section reproducing his annotated handwritten manuscript. Orwell lived on Jura between 1946 and 1949, accompanied by his housekeeper and son Richard, who has written the book's afterword. The title comes from a letter Orwell sent to a friend describing the cottage he had taken in the Hebrides as remote and hard to reach. Getting to Barnhill remains difficult—a ferry, a long drive and a final walk along a dirt road—and Easton's images dwell on the restorative power of nature and the small, sustaining pleasures that endure in times of uncertainty. It is the first of three monographs in an Island Trilogy made across the Scottish islands.