A closer look at the first Joseph Kell novel, published in 1961. When Anthony Burgess was struggling to establish himself in the literary world in the years before the publication of A Clockwork Orange, he wrote a strange comic novel that stands apart from most of his other work. Although One Hand Clapping has little in common […]

Anthony Burgess was born on 25 February 1917. On the occasion of his 108th birthday, we look forward to future publications and other forthcoming Burgess-related events. It was Amol Rajan, the presenter of University Challenge and the Today programme on BBC Radio 4, who spoke recently of ‘the great, late Anthony Burgess.’ Of his lateness […]