Miles Leeson

Books by Miles Leeson

Miles Leeson is the Director of the Iris Murdoch Research Centre at the University of Chichester, lead editor of the Iris Murdoch Review, the author of Iris Murdoch: Philosophical Novelist and the editor of Incest in Contemporary Literature. His most recent work is the edited collection Iris Murdoch: A Centenary Celebration.

Interviews with Miles Leeson

The Best Iris Murdoch Books, recommended by Miles Leeson

Iris Murdoch gained fame as a novelist, a philosopher and, perhaps most prominently of all, for her public and rapid decline (and posthumous immortalization by her husband John Bayley) after an early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. But now, more than a century on from her birth, the attention is returning back to her work. Miles Leeson, Director of the Iris Murdoch Centre at the University of Chichester, recommends what books to read from her canon of 27 novels.

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