Manchester Met's Prof Andrew Biswell Discovers a Lost ‘Sequel’ to A Clockwork Orange

Andrew Biswell is Professor of English at Manchester Metropolitan University.

The sequel was found among papers Anthony Burgess abandoned in his home near Rome in the 1970s. Read the full story on the Manchester Met website here.

The story was broken on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, which aired on Thursday 25th April. You can listen to it here from 2:41:10.

 The story has also been covered by the BBC Online and The Guardian among many others. Read both stories at the links. 

Andrew is the Professor of Modern Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has taught English and Creative Writing at the university since 2003. Andrew's academic work is spread across a variety of media. This includes book publications with academic and commercial publishers, exhibitions, broadcasting for television and radio, articles for newspapers and literary journals, and electronic publication of research materials.

Andrew is the editor and annotator of the digital edition of A Clockwork Orange: The Restored Text, available for iPad via the Apple store. The electronic edition is published by Random House Digital. The print edition is published by William Heinemann (UK hardback), W.W. Norton (US hardback) and Penguin Classics (UK and Commonwealth paperback). Current projects include a scholarly edition of the works of Anthony Burgess for Manchester University Press, and a book about British writers of the 1930s.