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Norminton, Gregory

As well as novels, Gregory Norminton has written two collections of short stories and a book of aphorism, translated three books including The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, written plays for radio and appeared several times on BBC Radio 3’s The Verb.

www.gregorynorminton.co.uk

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A Too-Early Death

Gregory Norminton on Anthony Burgess, Abba Abba

I am one of those fastidious individuals who, before travelling, has to draw up a reading list suited to the place he is to visit. For this reason, on a recent trip to Rome, I reread Abba Abba (one of Anthony Burgess’s slimmest books, it has the added virtue of fitting easily into a cramped suitcase). By the time he wrote the novel in the mid-seventies, Burgess had lived in Rome and married his second wife, Liana, an Italian contessa. Abba Abba is, amongst other things, a wary tribute to that capital of temporal power.

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