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Throughout his career, Anthony Burgess used a variety of recording equipment to document both his personal and professional lives. From reel-to-reel tapes to cassettes, Burgess and his wife, Liana, used different technology to record readings, lectures, interviews, musical compositions, telephone conversations and even scenes from the Burgess family’s daily life. The ...


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Anthony Burgess often wrote about his love of the North of England. In this article, we consider why he was also drawn to the South.

One of the paradoxes of Anthony Burgess is that he was a proud northerner who longed for the culture and climate of southern Europe.

Born in Manchester at a time when the city was part of the county of Lancashire, Burgess wrote fo...


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To mark the 30th publication anniversary of Byrne, we revisit Burgess’s posthumous novel.

When Anthony Burgess died in November 1993, he had completed the typescript of his last work, a 150-page narrative poem titled Byrne: A Novel. Rumours of this novel began to circulate in the British press a few days after Burgess’s death was announced. The...


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