For me, winning the first ever Anthony Burgess/Observer Prize in 2012 ­­– as opposed to an award given in any other similarly esteemed writer’s name – had a uniquely personal resonance. To someone who grew up in the north-west, without obvious advantages of birth or connection, and who went on to study and compose music, all the while harbouring a passion […]

Burgess and the art of quotation. By Graham Foster.

Burgess’s relationship with the work of Thomas Pynchon. By Graham Foster.

Burgess and the American Counter-Culture. By Graham Foster.

Burgess’s vexed relationship with pop music. By Graham Foster.

Burgess’s interaction with American writers and their work. By Graham Foster.

Burgess’s relations with Monty Python’s Flying Circus. By Graham Foster.

The importance of Burgess’s army career for his fiction. By Graham Foster.