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This may tickle my Bunker punters. I’m reading an Iris Murdoch novel ‘An Unofficial Rose’, and there’s a strange, controlling relationship between an older and younger woman in it. The older woman is wry evil; the younger has a totally contrived personality hiding her real one.

"Blackbird digging in the warm mown grass Glancing about with an eye of glass, Blackbird digging in the mown grass heap How mechanical you look, Flirting and glistening in agitation. Quiet now yellow beak motionlessly listening For tiny little things their doomed crepitation."

'Iris Murdoch’s Wild Imagination,' by Lucy Hunter Oulton, presents the first ecocritical study of novelist, philosopher, poet and public intellectual Iris Murdoch (1919–1999). bit.ly/3I7eKM6

Cover Reveal! Coming soon from Chatto&Windus, Iris Murdoch's Selected Poetry! With a preface by novelist Sarah Hall. Full details and pre-order via the link. penguin.co.uk/books/470920/p… Penguin Books UK

Wonderful collage of prominent literary figures on the front page of this week's TLS (Times Literary Supplement). Included are: Friedrich Nietzsche, W.G. Sebald, George Eliot, E.M. Forster, Zadie Smith, Iris Murdoch, and Doris Lessing.

My next read. Thank god for Iris Murdoch.

'The Bell by Iris Murdoch....I read it at 16 and it was perhaps the first time I realised that a novel, if perfectly executed, could be about absolutely anything.' theguardian.com/books/2025/jul…

Iris Murdoch is one of my most favourite and most loved novelists. Just read this sentence by her: “To avoid the torment of social life at the launderette I had bought a washing machine.” From A WORD CHILD, 1975.

and of iris murdoch; of jake donaghue alone in paris

First published novel, first paragraph by Iris Murdoch, born July 15 1919

Happy Iris Murdoch’s birthday! commonreader.co.uk/p/iris-murdoch…

A rogues' gallery of Murdoch characters to celebrate her birthday.

New article from Casa Carlini casacarlini.com/the-moral-visi…

Novelist & philosopher, Dame Iris Murdoch, would have been 106 today. To celebrate her life and remember her birthday, explore an issue of MFS including a 1987 interview. #ReadUP - bit.ly/lirismurdoch Thank you Hopkins Press

Missed last night's Birthday Lecture with Miles Leeson? No need to worry, we've got it here: soundcloud.com/user-548804258…

Summertime Litkicks blog post! I have a new favorite writer. litkicks.com/ringing-the-be…

“Attentive use of the imagination is, unlike fantasy, not a way to escape the world into a daydream but the route by which we become positive agents within the world,” argues Miles Leeson. | iai.tv/articles/imagi… Tap to read more about Leeson’s exploration of Iris Murdoch’s

'Seven decades on, Iris Murdoch’s debut still dazzles' Thanks Philip Womack!

A madcap plot, philosophical shenanigans and raucous scenes — Under the Net, published in 1954, must have shone brightly through the postwar gloom thetimes.com/culture/books/…