Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917 and educated at
Xaverian College and Manchester University. He spent six years in
the British Army before becoming a schoolmaster and colonial
education officer in Malaya and Brunei. After the success of his
Malayan Trilogy, he became a full-time writer in 1959. His books
have been published all over the world, and they include The
Complete Enderby, Nothing Like the Sun, Napoleon Symphony, Tremor
of Intent, Earthly Powers and A Dead Man in Deptford. Anthony
Burgess died in London in 1993.
Andrew Biswell is the Professor of Modern Literature at Manchester
Metropolitan University and the Director of the International
Anthony Burgess Foundation. His publications include a biography,
The Real Life of Anthony Burgess, which won the Portico Prize in
2006. He is currently editing the letters and short stories of
Anthony Burgess.
A terrifying and marvellous book
*Roald Dahl*
Still delivers the shock of the new ... a red streak of gleeful
evil
*Martin Amis*
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