In this essay, originally published in the Spectator in March 1968, Anthony Burgess discusses the pros and cons of living with cats. ‘Dare to Be a Catman’ by Anthony Burgess Cats only came properly into my life when, after six years of soldiering and two years of postwar mess (known officially as readjustment), I got […]

Anthony Burgess wrote about Christmas in a number of different contexts. His responses are always distinctive and flavoursome, like a glass of Madeira or a traditional British Christmas pudding, stuffed with fruit and sixpence coins. In the first volume of his autobiography, Little Wilson and Big God, Burgess recalls that one of his earliest published […]