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'The Real Life of Anthony Burgess is the biography all Burgess fans have been waiting for and which the great man himself richly deserves: revelatory, scrupulous, sincere and fascinating' William Boyd, Books of the Year Guardian   'Biswell's absorbing new life . . . is a work of scholarship, understanding and sympathetic portraiture' Observer   'He has shed great light on a writer, his personality and his work. 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