In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob, rape, torture and murder - for fun. Alex is jailed for his vicious crimes and the State undertakes to reform him - but how and at what cost?

Fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost?

A bumper volume of the best poems by a hugely funny and quotable writer.

Anthony Burgess' epic work revolves around a writer, Kenneth Marchal Toomey, and the man he is linked to through family ties, Carlo Campanati, an earthy Italian priest destined to become Pope. Toomey, now in his 80s recalls the past.

Burgess's trilogy dissects the racial and social prejudices of post-war Malaya during the chaotic upheaval of independence. Through a succession of colourful characters he delineates the conflict and confusion arising from the enforced mingling of cultures.

Born Jack Wilson, Anthony Burgess grew up in one of the toughest areas of Manchester between the wars. This biography tells the story of this disaffected Manchester Catholic from his birth in 1917 up to the commencement, in 1959, of his career as a professional writer.

Kicked out of college and harassed by his lawyer, Miles Faber abandons New York and embarks on a defiant pilgrimage across the Caribbean to find the shrine of Sib Legeru, an obscure poet and painter.

Set in Elizabethan England, Burgess's first novel for four years centres on the life of Christopher Marlowe, who was killed in suspicious circumstances in a tavern brawl in Deptford 400 years ago. It portrays a theatre genius riven by sexual and political conflicts.

In these impressions of the Italian countryside: Twilight in Italy , Sea and Sardina , and Etruscan Places , the author transforms ordinary incidents into passages of intense beauty.

The Eve of St Venus is a delightful fantasy, blending classical myth and farce. Displaying a high degree of verbal ingenuity and intelligence, Burgess effortlessly plays with ideas to create a riotous comedy that is ultimately a celebration of love and marriage. Ambrose and Diana are to be married. However, Diana is having last-minute doubts fuelled by her feminist friend and bridesmaid Julia, ...

Presents the life and loves of William Shakespeare.

New edition.

Focuses on ancient Rome.

This is a collection of four novels by Anthony Burgess, featuring the poet and social critic, Enderby. These novels are a chronicle of the gross and fitfully inspired poet's triumphs despite all the obstacles in his path.

This work follows Daniel Defoe's fictional narrator as he traces the devastating progress of the plague through the streets of London. Here we see a city transformed - some of its streets suspiciously empty and some overwhelmingly full of the sounds and smells of human suffering.

Presents a new version of the Greek classic drama as adapted for a modern theatrical performance.

Like Burgess's early novel, Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love-Life, this equally delightful factual treatment of what we know of the Bard combines Burgess's stimulating erudition and his well-informed imagination. The result is at once a speculative biography, a theatrical history, and a re-creation of the Elizabethan age. Whether a vivid retracing of the evolution Elizabethan

The second volume of Burgess's autobiography begins in 1959 with the author's return to England from Brunei and - after the mistaken prognosis which gave him a year to live - the start of his professional writing career. It ends in 1982 with the centenary celebrations of James Joyce's birth.