Anthony Burgess is one of Manchester’s most famous writers, yet he’s best remembered for the film of his novel, A Clockwork Orange, which he didn’t even script. This year’s Literature Festival is hoping to redress that injustice. This report from BBC Manchester:

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With expert advice from Burgess biographer, Andrew Biswell, the writing talent have been commissioned to produce new Burgessian works that will be presented live on Manchester’s streets, culminating in a city centre performance, with rich media footage of Burgess' real life such as photos, clips from his broadcasts and ringtones from his compositions being sent to the audience’s phones.

There’s also an event for the author at the Whitworth Gallery, where the launch of Andrew Biswell’s biography of Burgess and some of the new writing involved in The Burgess Project will go hand-in-hand to celebrate the great writer’s work.

And as honoured as Burgess would probably be by it all, he would also smile at the choice of venue. As a small boy, Anthony was thrown out of the Whitworth for indecently assaulting a modernist sculpture. How times change!

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a unique and pioneering production
a special production which will be doing things that have not been done

a diverse literary archive
a collection of books and other writings that are very varied and different

a psycho-geographic tour
a tour which covers places and the psychological connections to those places

a live-literature promenade tour
a performance which will be done while the speakers are walking around the city

biographer
the person who writes a book about somebody's life

commissioned to produce
paid to make

Burgessian
In the syle of Burgess

culminating in
ending with

go hand-in-hand
be done together

venue
the place where an event or performance is held

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