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How President Trump is helping book sales

George Orwell鈥檚 1984 sold 5,000 copies in the first week of Donald Trump鈥檚 presidency

According to Penguin books, sales of George Orwell's 1984 are up 95 percent. In the first week of Donald Trump's presidency they sold 5,000 copies. Do artists secretly love having an apocalyptic figure to moralise against?

Nick Robinson discusses with Jessica Harrison classics editor for Penguin, and Stig Abell editor and publisher of the Times Literary Supplement and presenter on LBC, how President Donald Trump is influencing literature and the arts.

(Image: Book cover of George Orwell's 1984; credit: Getty Images)

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