David Shrigley turns 6,000 The Da Vinci Code novels into Nineteen Eighty-Four

Artist creates new edition of Orwell classic after Swansea charity shop had its fill of Dan Brown bestseller

Six years after an Oxfam shop amusingly, but seriously, pleaded for no more copies of The Da Vinci Code, the artist David Shrigley has completed a project to collect and recycle 6,000 copies of the novel into a new edition of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.

This weekend copies of the new “Pulped Fiction” edition of the Orwell classic will be displayed and sold at the Swansea charity shop that inspired the project.