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

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.

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

📚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.

Find us here: www.anthonyburgess.org/podcasts/nin...

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

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

Plenty to catch up on too!

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 1d

I really love this Burgess book - found lots of authors in here - so it’s quite exciting that there’s a podcast about it

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

📚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.

Find us here: www.anthonyburgess.org/podcasts/nin...

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

📚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.

Find us here: www.anthonyburgess.org/podcasts/nin...

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

📚TOMORROW 📚

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

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 · 12d

Thank you!

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Mahendra Singh @mahendra.bsky.social · 12d

This is one of the very few podcasts I listen, catnip for lovers of 20th century lit.

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

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 · 12d

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 · 13d

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 · 20d

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 · 20d

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

Subscribe for FREE weekly posts: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/la-grande-...

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 27d

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 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.

Subscribe for FREE for weekly posts: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/the-illust...

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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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PARIAH PRESS 🍷 @pariahpress.bsky.social · Aug 26

Bentley's are the most enjoyable Burgess covers.

Tip of the hat Barnbrook's Clockwork Orangre and some of the Vintage editions too.

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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…

Subscribe for FREE: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/the-illust...

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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…

Subscribe for FREE: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/the-illust...

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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 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.

Subscribe for FREE for weekly posts about Anthony Burgess and more: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/the-illust...

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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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