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Anthony Burgess has a dormobile

Personally I will always remember Burgess fondly, with the image of a brilliant, if unworldly man trundling about Europe in his dormobile promoting his books and insulting people on television.

Beard's Roman Women is considered by some to be his least successful novel (plea of mitigation: it was written entirely while on the road in his Bedford Dormobile campervan).

The novelist Anthony Burgess, who owned one and used it as a home and a means of travelling throughout western Europe in the late 1960s, described the Bedford Dormobile as "a miracle of British design, although much let down by slipshod British execution — screws missing, bad wood-planing..."

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