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What's it going to be then, eh? All things Anthony Burgess (author of A Clockwork Orange) from his Estate and Archive in Manchester, UK. www.anthonyburgess.org

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This week we’re exploring Anthony Burgess’s unconventional autobiography, Little Wilson and Big God, a literary event when it was published in 1987. Subscribe for FREE for weekly posts by and about Anthony Burgess (author of A Clockwork Orange): anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/glued-toge...
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Glued Together by Energy
The Confessions of Anthony Burgess
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Centre For New Writing @newwritingmcr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Join us for an evening with Jennifer Lee Tsai and Adam Lowe to celebrate their debut poetry collections. 📅 Tuesday 6 October ⏰ 6.30-8pm 🎟️ Free – Booking required 📍 @anthonyburgess.bsky.social Tickets and info: www.tickettailor.com/events/unive...
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Select tickets – Jennifer Lee Tsai and Adam Lowe in Conversation with John McAuliffe – International Anthony Burgess Foundation
Jennifer Lee Tsai and Adam Lowe in Conversation with John McAuliffe – International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Tue 6 Oct 2026 - Join us for an evening to celebrate the debut collections of two exciti...
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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The third episode of INSIDE ANTHONY BURGESS, our new podcast about the writing of the author of A Clockwork Orange, deals with the second part of his ‘confessions’, You’ve Had Your Time. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts or here: www.anthonyburgess.org/podcasts/ins...
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Inside Anthony Burgess: You've Had Your Time - The International Anthony Burgess Foundation
Inside Anthony Burgess is a podcast that explores the writing of the author of A Clockwork Orange. Taking in both his fiction and non-fiction, we feature one of his books in each episode, discussing B...
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Jeff Stringer @blooms-ghost.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Anthony Burgess came to speak where I went to university in the 70s. I went up to get him to sign my copy of 'Clockwork Orange'; it was a mass market paperback that had a glossary in the back that he'd not authorised so he tore it out and threw it away before signing it.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 28/09/2026
‘Why 𝘯𝘰𝘵 work simultaneously on screenplays about James Bond and Jesus Christ? He was an omnivorous polymath to the end, relentlessly curious, a true freelance mind.’ Ian Penman on Anthony Burgess, published online early from our next issue. Read here: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Ian Penman · AB Fab: Anthony Burgess heads south
For a certain kind of northern man, Burgess has always been – for once the term is apt – something of an icon. A bit...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 29/09/2026
‘For a certain kind of northern man, Anthony Burgess has always been – for once the term is apt – something of an icon. A bit mouthy and contrarian. Not part of the self-regarding London literary establishment. A Big Canvas man.’ Ian Penman in the next issue. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Ian Penman · AB Fab: Anthony Burgess heads south
For a certain kind of northern man, Burgess has always been – for once the term is apt – something of an icon. A bit...
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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A good article about Anthony Burgess is in the new @lrb.co.uk. It's by Ian Penman and gives a good intro to Burgess that goes way beyond A Clockwork Orange. You can read it online here: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Ian Penman · AB Fab: Anthony Burgess heads south
For a certain kind of northern man, Burgess has always been – for once the term is apt – something of an icon. A bit...
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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This week’s newsletter returns to the Odyssey. Find out Anthony Burgess’s opinions on the impossibility of translating the poem into English verse and the poets who have given it a worthy stab. Subscribe for FREE for weekly posts: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/a-very-mac...
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A Very Macho Book
Anthony Burgess on Homer’s Odyssey
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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Episode 2 of our new podcast series INSIDE ANTHONY BURGESS is out now! In the first of a two-parter, we look at Little Wilson and Big God, volume one of Burgess's autobiography. Find INSIDE ANTHONY BURGESS at your favourite place to get podcasts or here: www.anthonyburgess.org/podcasts/ins...
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Inside Anthony Burgess: Little Wilson and Big God - The International Anthony Burgess Foundation
Inside Anthony Burgess is a podcast that explores the writing of the author of A Clockwork Orange. Taking in both his fiction and non-fiction, we feature one of his books in each episode, discussing B...
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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Probably best to do it in Elizabethan English. Here's a little crib sheet from Anthony Burgess himself (Hamlet, but you get the idea)... www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXiL...
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Anthony Burgess Recites Hamlet in Original Pronunciation
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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Episode 2 of our new podcast series INSIDE ANTHONY BURGESS is out now! In the first of a two-parter, we look at Little Wilson and Big God, volume one of Burgess's autobiography. Find INSIDE ANTHONY BURGESS at your favourite place to get podcasts or here: www.anthonyburgess.org/podcasts/ins...
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Inside Anthony Burgess: Little Wilson and Big God - The International Anthony Burgess Foundation
Inside Anthony Burgess is a podcast that explores the writing of the author of A Clockwork Orange. Taking in both his fiction and non-fiction, we feature one of his books in each episode, discussing B...
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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
On this week’s newsletter, we’re celebrating the 70th anniversary of Anthony Burgess’s debut novel, Time for a Tiger. In an article originally published in 1981, Burgess himself reminisces about how it came to be. Subscribe for FREE: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/time-for-a...
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Time for a Tiger at 70
Anthony Burgess looks back at the publication of his debut novel
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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Great podcasts for devotees of Burgess and 20th-century lit in general.
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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This year marks the 70th anniversary of Anthony Burgess’s debut novel, Time for a Tiger. To celebrate, we’re launching a new podcast series: INSIDE ANTHONY BURGESS. The first episode is about The Malayan Trilogy. Listen at your favourite pod-app or here: www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/i...
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Inside Anthony Burgess: The Malayan Trilogy - The International Anthony Burgess Foundation
Inside Anthony Burgess is a podcast that explores the writing of the author of A Clockwork Orange. Taking in both his fiction and non-fiction, we feature one of his books in each episode, discussing B...
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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This year marks the 70th anniversary of Anthony Burgess’s debut novel, Time for a Tiger. To celebrate, we’re launching a new podcast series: INSIDE ANTHONY BURGESS. The first episode is about The Malayan Trilogy. Listen at your favourite pod-app or here: www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/i...
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Inside Anthony Burgess: The Malayan Trilogy - The International Anthony Burgess Foundation
Inside Anthony Burgess is a podcast that explores the writing of the author of A Clockwork Orange. Taking in both his fiction and non-fiction, we feature one of his books in each episode, discussing B...
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Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
#Read my new #bookreview 🎀 vocal.media/geeks/book-r...
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Book Review: "Puma" by Anthony Burgess
5/5 - possibly Burgess's best example of writing dialogue...
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Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The things people leave in little free libraries…
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Centre For New Writing @newwritingmcr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Join our graduating master's students for the launch of this year's Manchester Anthology! 📅 Monday 19 October ⏰ 6-9pm 📍 International Anthony Burgess Foundation 🎟️ Free – Booking required
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Launch Event: The Manchester Anthology (Vol. 16)
Come celebrate the launch of the latest Manchester Anthology!
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Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“The beauty was all within, behind the locked doors of the eyes.” - A Dead Man in Deptford by Anthony Burgess #bookquotes #booksky #books #book #bookish #bookworm #bookpics
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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
To commemorate the film director Jean-Paul Rappeneau, who died this week, our latest newsletter explores how Anthony Burgess’s came to write the subtitles to Rappeneau’s film version of Cyrano de Bergerac. Subscribe for FREE for weekly posts: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/a-nose-by-...
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A Nose By Any Other Name
On Anthony Burgess’s translation of Cyrano de Bergerac
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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Andy Burnham thinks Margaret Thatcher ruined Britain. We know what the burning question on all of your lips is right now: what did Anthony Burgess, the author of A Clockwork Orange, think of her? Wonder no more (from our Substack archive): anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/a-woman-wh...
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A Woman Who Chills the Heart
Anthony Burgess on Margaret Thatcher and the legacy of Thatcherism
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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Andy Burnham thinks Margaret Thatcher ruined Britain. We know what the burning question on all of your lips is right now: what did Anthony Burgess, the author of A Clockwork Orange, think of her? Wonder no more (from our Substack archive): anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/a-woman-wh...
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A Woman Who Chills the Heart
Anthony Burgess on Margaret Thatcher and the legacy of Thatcherism
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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This week, to celebrate the bicentennial of Carl Maria von Weber’s opera, Oberon, we’re looking at Anthony Burgess’s libretto for a production in 1985. Subscribe for FREE for weekly posts by & about Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange) anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/webers-obe...
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Weber’s Oberon at 200
Anthony Burgess updates an operatic classic
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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
A fascinating insight into how Tremor of Intent, Anthony Burgess spoof of James Bond-style spy fiction, inspired the American writer James Ellroy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnoB...
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Tremor of Intent by Anthony Burgess
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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This week, why quoting Anthony Burgess’s work may be more difficult than it seems, and why even the dictionaries of quotation often get it wrong. Subscribe for FREE for weekly posts: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/the-art-of...
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The Art of Quotation
The aphorisms and epigrams of Anthony Burgess
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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This week, why quoting Anthony Burgess’s work may be more difficult than it seems, and why even the dictionaries of quotation often get it wrong. Subscribe for FREE for weekly posts: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/the-art-of...
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The Art of Quotation
The aphorisms and epigrams of Anthony Burgess
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Stanley Bad 🍰 @stanleybad.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Good stuff! Burgess talks Finnegans Wake...
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Anthony Burgess — Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake (1973)
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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
— There is one truth I will admit, and that is religion was founded to keep men in awe. You seem shocked. — I am not so. I submit to believing what I am bid to believe, but I hold as a true protestant that a man is free to enquire of the meaning of what he reads. Anthony Burgess
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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Anthony Burgess hated Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of A Clockwork Orange, right? This week’s newsletter attempts to set the record straight… Subscribe for FREE for weekly posts by and about Anthony Burgess, twentieth century literature and more: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/kubricks-h...
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Kubrick's Horrorshow
Did Anthony Burgess hate Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of A Clockwork Orange?
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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Anthony Burgess hated Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of A Clockwork Orange, right? This week’s newsletter attempts to set the record straight… Subscribe for FREE for weekly posts by and about Anthony Burgess, twentieth century literature and more: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/kubricks-h...
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Kubrick's Horrorshow
Did Anthony Burgess hate Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of A Clockwork Orange?
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PARIAH PRESS 🍷 @pariahpress.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Publishing Obscenity & the Arts www.pariahpress.com/post/publish... #AnthonyBurgess #Booksky
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Publishing Obscenity & the Arts
Jonny Walsh with a publishing procedural, first featured on the International Anthony Burgess Foundation Blog.
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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Over the past year, we have been working to restore, digitise and catalogue the massive archive of cassette tapes in the Burgess Foundation’s collections. Find out what they tell us about Anthony Burgess's life and work. anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/listening-...
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Listening to Anthony Burgess
On the Burgess Foundation's audio cassette collection
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Phil Price @philipcprice.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Anthony Burgess' prescient novel (& Kubrick movie): thememoryhole.substack.com/p/as-odd-as-...
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As Odd as a Clockwork Orange
The Unreliable Narrator and Primary Sources
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Ricardo 🇵🇸 @thoughtcat.com · 23/07/2026
Say this in a TV interview and you get lauded as an intellectual. When I bring it up in a Teams meeting I get called in afterwards for “a word”.
Anthony Burgess circa late 80s saying “We cannot go on not eating each other.”
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Tim Lees @timlees.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Anthony Burgess -- hardly a "radical leftie" -- on the grim reign of Margaret Thatcher. anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/a-woman-wh...
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A Woman Who Chills the Heart
Anthony Burgess on Margaret Thatcher and the legacy of Thatcherism
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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
It’s Odyssey Day! To celebrate the release of Christopher Nolan’s epic adaptation, we’re looking at Anthony Burgess’s use of Greek and Roman mythology in his own novels. Subscribe for FREE: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/complex-oe...
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Complex Oedipus
Anthony Burgess revisits Greek and Roman myths
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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
It’s Odyssey Day! To celebrate the release of Christopher Nolan’s epic adaptation, we’re looking at Anthony Burgess’s use of Greek and Roman mythology in his own novels. Subscribe for FREE: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/complex-oe...
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Complex Oedipus
Anthony Burgess revisits Greek and Roman myths
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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Last month, we hosted Unavoidable Happenings, a song cycle based on the poetry of Anthony Burgess. We were mightily impressed, and we are delighted that the full performance is now available to watch on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzst...
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Unavoidable Happenings
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David Reader 🐳📚🐦 @thepaleusher.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
He liked this life of woodcock-shooting in the woods around Ettenheim, all at English expense, a plump *Mädchen* most evenings, a quiet read of a French romance in bed. #SundaySentence (The aristocratic good life during the Napoleonic era) Anthony Burgess / Napoleon Symphony
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The Wyndham Lewis Society @lewisian.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Interesting article by @lukegilfedder.bsky.social in the latest issue of the Modernist Review, on Anthony Burgess's essay, ‘Lewis as Spaceman’. @modernistudies.bsky.social @anthonyburgess.bsky.social
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Lewis as Spaceman: Anthony Burgess on Lewis as the Anti-Joyce
10 July 2026 Dr Luke Gilfedder, Independent Researcher Joyce is an auditory writer; he writes for the ear. He was not, like his fellow Man of 1914—the Vorticist painter and draughtsman Wyndham Lewi…
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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Anthony Burgess was not a man who cared about sport, but he was sent to report on the 1974 World Cup in West Germany. This week’s newsletter contains his full report. WARNING: You won’t learn much about the 1974 World Cup. anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/sex-violen...
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Sex. Violence. Football?
Anthony Burgess considers the beautiful game
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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Anthony Burgess was not a man who cared about sport, but he was sent to report on the 1974 World Cup in West Germany. This week’s newsletter contains his full report. WARNING: You won’t learn much about the 1974 World Cup. anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/sex-violen...
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Sex. Violence. Football?
Anthony Burgess considers the beautiful game
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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
On Mervyn Peake's birthday, why not listen to our podcast about Titus Groan, one of Anthony Burgess's favourite novels? Our guest was the brilliant @profrmaslen.bsky.social. www.anthonyburgess.org/podcasts/nin...
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Ninety-Nine Novels: Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake - The International Anthony Burgess Foundation
In 1984, Anthony Burgess published Ninety-Nine Novels, a selection of his favourite novels in English since 1939. The list is typically idiosyncratic, and shows the breadth of Burgess’s interest in fi...
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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
It’s the USA’s 250th birthday this weekend, so in today’s newsletter, Anthony Burgess himself attempts to put his finger on what makes the country great. Subscribe for FREE for weekly posts by and about Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange): anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/on-america...
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On American Excellence
Anthony Burgess visits Washington D.C.
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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
It’s the USA’s 250th birthday this weekend, so in today’s newsletter, Anthony Burgess himself attempts to put his finger on what makes the country great. Subscribe for FREE for weekly posts by and about Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange): anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/on-america...
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On American Excellence
Anthony Burgess visits Washington D.C.
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David Coates @oziasmidwinter.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Dave Eggers in Manchester!! Can’t wait to hear him discuss his new book CONTRAPPOSTO with @luciaoc.bsky.social at the Anthony Burgess Foundation on Thursday! (I may or may not bring all 83 issues of my @mcsweeneys.net collection with me!)
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Birgit Böllinger @birgitboellinger.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Neu im Büro - das passende Buch für diese Tage. Ein Kinderbuch von ANTHONY BURGESS in deutscher Erstübersetzung: Das Land wo die Eiscreme wächst birgit-boellinger.com/2026/06/30/b...
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Anthony Burgess: Das Land wo die Eiscreme wächst
Anthony Burgess, weltbekannt durch Uhrwerk Orange, war ein vielseitiger Autor. So verfasste er das bezaubernde Kinderbuch "Das Land wo die Eiscreme wächst."
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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
In this week’s newsletter, we explore the friendship of Anthony Burgess and Umberto Eco, the Italian author of The Name of the Rose. Medieval Sherlock Holmes! A novel in need of an index! The spectacular benefits of reading! It’s all in here… anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/in-the-eco...
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In the Eco chamber
Anthony Burgess encounters Umberto Eco
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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
In this week’s newsletter, we explore the friendship of Anthony Burgess and Umberto Eco, the Italian author of The Name of the Rose. Medieval Sherlock Holmes! A novel in need of an index! The spectacular benefits of reading! It’s all in here… anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/in-the-eco...
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In the Eco chamber
Anthony Burgess encounters Umberto Eco
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