Spaghetti Formaggio Surprise, as prepared by F.X. Enderby. By Will Carr.

Burgess’s recipe for Lancashire Hotpot, the ‘Devil’s Supper’. By Will Carr.

Burgess on one of the bestselling novels of the early 1970s. By Will Carr.

Painting belonging to Burgess from the 1940s identified. By Will Carr.

Burgess and Beckett: ‘We’re all in it really, strapped to a porcupine sofa, waiting for God and water, becalmed in our filth’… by Andrew Biswell