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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 4d

📚NINETY-NINE NOVELS IS BACK! 📚

Series five is starting with an exploration of TITUS GROAN by Mervyn Peake, one of the key fantasy novels of the twentieth century. Editor of Peake's poems, Rob Maslen, joins us to talk all things Gormanghast.

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Ninety-Nine Novels, new podcast episode on Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake.

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 2d

On this week’s newsletter: 100 years of the Iron Lady. Anthony Burgess (author of A Clockwork Orange) assesses Margaret Thatcher’s premiership. But what does he make of the her?

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you! We do one series a year, every autumn.

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 3d

A SHORTER ULYSSES arrives in ONE WEEK! Pre-order your copy now: uk.bookshop.org/a/15106/9781...

A SHORTER ULYSSES is a companion piece to Anthony Burgess’s edited edition of Finnegans Wake, acts as a perfect entry point for readers who have not yet mastered Joyce’s complexity.

International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 4d

Plenty to catch up on too!

International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 5d

📚TOMORROW 📚

International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 16d

Series 5 of Ninety-Nine Novels, our podcast exploring Anthony Burgess's favourite books, is coming soon. Available wherever you get your podcasts.

International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 16d

Thank you!

International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 16d

Series 5 of Ninety-Nine Novels, our podcast exploring Anthony Burgess's favourite books, is coming soon. Available wherever you get your podcasts.

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 16d

A Shorter Ulysses, Anthony Burgess’s companion piece to his Shorter Finnegans Wake, is out on 16 October 2025. In this week’s newsletter, we introduce the book and reveal the origins of the manuscript. Pre-order link within.

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 23d

In this week’s newsletter, we celebrate the life of Josephine Baker, the groundbreaking performer who captivated Anthony Burgess (author of A Clockwork Orange). In his own words, he explains what made her special

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · Sep 12

Our latest newsletter considers patriotism. Anthony Burgess (author of A Clockwork Orange) asks if we should allow politicians to define country and whether we owe our nations any loyalty.

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · Sep 5

This week’s newsletter reveals all of the autumn 2025 events at the Burgess Foundation. Not in Manchester? Also find out how you can visit the us online!

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · Aug 29

It’s our 100th newsletter! And the third in our series on the illustrated Anthony Burgess. This time, we look inside the books and examine the illustrators who brought Burgess’s stories to life.

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · Aug 26

The second in our series about the artists who worked on Anthony Burgess’s fiction is about Peter Bentley, who illustrated more Burgess covers than anyone else — and the covers are among the best Burgess ever had…

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · Aug 21

Für unsere deutschsprachigen Freunde: „Der Mann aus Nazareth“, ein Roman von Anthony Burgess über das Leben Christi, ist jetzt erstmals auf Deutsch erhältlich. Die Übersetzung stammt von Ludger Tolksdorf

Man of Nazareth, Anthony Burgess's novel about Jesus, is available in German for the first time

The cover of Der Mann aus Nazareth, the German edition of Man of Nazareth by Anthony Burgess, showing an abstract painting of Christ on the cross.

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · Aug 15

On the newsletter this week, find out how Anthony Burgess’s most famous novel, A Clockwork Orange, has been represented by cover artists over the years.

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · Aug 12

To mark the centenary of W. Somerset Maugham’s The Painted Veil, our latest newsletter explores the influence Maugham had on Anthony Burgess’s Booker-nominated novel Earthly Powers.

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · Aug 6

Today is the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. Here is a piece written by Anthony Burgess to mark the 40th anniversary.

“Every day now we wake to the possibility that mankind will obliterate itself at the mere touch of a button.”

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Anthony Burgess and the Age of Oppenheimer

Anthony Burgess considers the impact of the atomic bomb, in an essay written to mark the 40th anniversary of the destruction of Hiroshima.

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · Aug 1

This week’s newsletter celebrates the 40th anniversary of the publication of Flame into Being, Anthony Burgess’s biography of D.H. Lawrence.

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · Jul 31

PRE-ORDER NOW: A Shorter Ulysses, edited by Anthony Burgess is coming in September. It's a companion piece to Burgess's A Shorter Finnegans Wake, and includes Blooms of Dublin, his musical based on Ulysses.

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The cover of A Shorter Ulysses by James Joyce, edited by Anthony Burgess

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · Jul 25

About to go on your summer break? Have you considered just going to sleep instead? In this week’s newsletter, the dubious blessings of a summer holiday explored by the writer, and indoorsman, Anthony Burgess.

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · Jul 18

It’s prom season, and in this week’s newsletter we’re celebrating the beginning of the BBC Proms with a piece by Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange) about the relationship between music and literature.

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · Jul 11

There was an old writer called Burgess
Who found the limerick form bliss,
He liked the set rhyme
And found rudeness sublime,
So wrote his own to prove his prowess.

In this week’s newsletter Anthony Burgess on LIMERICKS!

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · Jul 8

We love it when our archive volunteers write about working with us. Here, Lydia Flack takes a deep dive into our collections and ponders on curation, categorisation and domesticity.

Categorising a Life – Volunteering at the Burgess Foundation www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/c...

Categorising a Life: Volunteering at the Burgess Foundation - The International Anthony Burgess Foundation

In October 2024 I had the privilege to volunteer for the Burgess Foundation where I assisted with a project to catalogue the numerous objects in the archive in preparation of eventual digitisation. My...

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · Jul 7

A lovely review of Anthony Burgess's A Dead Man in Deptford, his novel about Christopher Marlowe. If you liked Nothing Like the Sun, this companion-piece is right up your muck-strewn Elizabethan London street.

Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · Jul 2

#Read my new #bookreview of “A Dead Man in Deptford” by Anthony Burgess 💫 vocal.media/geeks/book-r...

Book Review: "A Dead Man in Deptford" by Anthony Burgess

5/5 - the whirlwind life of Kit Marlowe, written in such incredible prose...

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · Jul 4

July at the Burgess Foundation is a busy month. In this week’s newsletter, you can find out everything that’s happening. Not in Manchester? You can also find out how to connect with the Burgess Foundation online.

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Annie @anniewithbooks.bsky.social · Jul 2

#Read my new #bookreview of “A Dead Man in Deptford” by Anthony Burgess 💫 vocal.media/geeks/book-r...

Book Review: "A Dead Man in Deptford" by Anthony Burgess

5/5 - the whirlwind life of Kit Marlowe, written in such incredible prose...

vocal.media

International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · Jun 16

Happy #Bloomsday to all of our followers! As a special treat, here is a little-heard song from Anthony Burgess's musical version of James Joyce's Ulysses. 'Today' is from early in the musical and is about the day on which the story is set: 16 June 1904.

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'Today' from Anthony Burgess's Blooms of Dublin

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · Jun 13

Frederick Forsyth died this week. In tribute, we decided to write a newsletter highlighting Anthony Burgess’s thoughts about the author. We scoured the archive and what we found was not exactly tribute material…

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RNCM PRiSM @rncmprism.bsky.social · Jun 10

🎵Coming up tomorrow 🎼

"Sound Sculptures: A Concert Merging Installation and Live Performance" feat. music by Simon Knighton, Gemma Bass, Emmy Lambert, Sidney Patrick, and Gloria Xia.

📍 @anthonyburgess.bsky.social, M1 5BY, Manchester
⏱️ 8pm, 11 June 2025

🔗 www.ticketsource.co.uk/simonknighton

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