J.P. Bruce : Writer & Podcaster

ABOUT THIS BOOK9

In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell’s prophetic novel about a future “world of lies”, the author wrote about a device called the Memory Hole. It is used to alter any record, like a press report or a photograph, that no longer fits with the ever-changing policies of the Big Brother regime. 

Now imagine an historian trying to retrieve even a few of those records before they are doctored or destroyed.  Would it be possible to reverse what Orwell described as a "process of continuous alteration" of the past? 

Into the Memory Hole is much more than a nostalgia trip. It is an attempt to re-evaluate our assumptions about human history, to rediscover the shocking truth about our own “world of lies”.

EXTRACTS

"I had no words to express the emotions churning around inside me. But I needed desperately to share the experience with someone who might understand. So I left the house to find a kindred spirit." (page 8) 

"John Charles McQuaid is not an obvious candidate for the underdog in this story; far from it.  But that is what he turned out to be." (p. 32)

"In the Irish Constitution, why does the name of a female pagan goddess appear directly beneath a description of God?" (p. 160)

"When I arrived I found the door unlocked.  As I went in, my legs suddenly went from under me and I fell down. It was as if some invisible force had compelled me to drop to the floor." ( p. 197)

"Jesus’ very existence was such a reproach to the 'ruler of this world' that, if Jesus himself could not be erased completely, his life would have to be misrepresented and distorted." (p. 293)

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