On sale from 7th October 2010.

‘Burgess need defer only to Nabokov in translating his comic vision into comic prose.’ Newsweek

Janet Shirley’s husband is special. He has a “photographic brain”, which wins the modest used-car salesman and his wife an eaasy fortune on England’s most popular high-stakes TV quiz show. Recklessly, the Shirleys revel in new-found affluence, and locquacious Janet obligingly provides details of first-class travel, luxury hotels, mink coats, a bit of adultery and—ultimately, outrageously, hilariously—not entirely accidental death.

The author
“This constantly astonishing writer...has such great gifts and writes with so much wit and energy,” Robertson Davies

Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) was the author of a Earthly Powers, the Malayan Trilogy, A Clockwork Orange and many other much-loved novels. He was a truly multifaceted artist, producing novels, orchestral music, film scripts, criticism, poetry and translations.

Details

• ISBN 9781905636990
• Publication date: 7th October 2010
• Format: B format paperback
• Pages: 256
• RRP: £8.99

Rights information

• UK and Commonwealth book, World E-book and audio