Tremor of Intent (1966)

The Book…

• This wasn't to be the last time that Burgess was drawn into the spy novelist's world, as this article shows

• In 1984 Burgess published an essay in which he selected the best 99 novels in the English language since the war. It is certainly a very unconventional list, as well as including Len Deighton's war novel "Bomber", it finds space for the rather unexpected Mr Goldfinger....

• Whilst we're on Spotify, here's the episode from the Anthony Burgess Foundation in which Tremor of Intent is paired with One Hand Clapping for discussion. Stick with us, though, there's more laughs.

The Artist as a Performer.

Burgess imagined as a whisky priest, by William Rushton.

Burgess was a great chat show guest and panel game contestant. here he is being distracted from finishing Tremor of Intent by the need to earn easy money…

…and here he is twenty years later, completely unperturbed by the passage of time and reading the room with ease…

Here’s a clip from the RTE of Burgess giving a quick-fire verdict on Irish letters…

… Whilst we’re on the subject of Irish writers, you can’t really talk about Burgess without mentioning Joyce. Here’s Burgess explaining Finnegan’s Wake to an American TV audience in 1974. Imagine you’ve just tuned in to this in the middle…

Documentaries, interviews…

There have been many documentaries about Burgess over the years, probably the best one came out after Burgess’s death…

…and finally…

as a present to all of you who are still wondering about alternative James Bonds. Imagine, in a parallel universe that is also Italian, you decide to make a Bond film using what you can afford, like Sean Connery’s younger brother. Enjoy…

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