Iris Murdoch
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The Official Account of the Iris Murdoch Society
We're looking forward to being in Rome soon!
November 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
We're looking forward to being in Rome soon!
Launch! Tomorrow! In Chichester!
November 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Launch! Tomorrow! In Chichester!
'Re-release the Harry Peccinotti covers and I guarantee Murdoch will reach Joan Didion status in about six months...Eventually she will emerge triumphant because her novels genuinely are funny and sexy and cosmopolitan in a manner that doesn’t exist today.'
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October 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
'Re-release the Harry Peccinotti covers and I guarantee Murdoch will reach Joan Didion status in about six months...Eventually she will emerge triumphant because her novels genuinely are funny and sexy and cosmopolitan in a manner that doesn’t exist today.'
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This week in the @thetls.bsky.social, Miles Leeson from @chiunipress.bsky.social writes on Murdoch's poetry.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/470920...
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October 29, 2025 at 11:55 AM
This week in the @thetls.bsky.social, Miles Leeson from @chiunipress.bsky.social writes on Murdoch's poetry.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/470920...
www.penguin.co.uk/books/470920...
They're here! Ready for the @chiunipress.bsky.social launch on Saturday 8th November.
October 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM
They're here! Ready for the @chiunipress.bsky.social launch on Saturday 8th November.
Coming up at @kebleoxford.bsky.social this Friday!
October 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Coming up at @kebleoxford.bsky.social this Friday!
October 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Iris Murdoch Review 16 (2025) Cover and Contents Reveal! This year is a North American Special Edition.
Lots to look forward to; members get the review mailed to them on publication. Not yet a member? You can join here from just £15 for the year.
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Lots to look forward to; members get the review mailed to them on publication. Not yet a member? You can join here from just £15 for the year.
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October 9, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Iris Murdoch Review 16 (2025) Cover and Contents Reveal! This year is a North American Special Edition.
Lots to look forward to; members get the review mailed to them on publication. Not yet a member? You can join here from just £15 for the year.
irismurdochsociety.org.uk/product/memb...
Lots to look forward to; members get the review mailed to them on publication. Not yet a member? You can join here from just £15 for the year.
irismurdochsociety.org.uk/product/memb...
October 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Come and join us if you're in the area. Or catch the editors out on the road at various events over the next six months or so.
@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Come and join us if you're in the area. Or catch the editors out on the road at various events over the next six months or so.
@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
Iris Murdoch talk in December!
September 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Iris Murdoch talk in December!
The new exhibition at the Iris Murdoch Archives at Kingston University - 'Iris Murdoch: Rhyme and Reason', is now open!
If you're in Kingston though, why not visit the exhibition in person. It's free and accessible to all, everyday from 10am-4pm until 15th January 2026 (excluding bank holidays!).
If you're in Kingston though, why not visit the exhibition in person. It's free and accessible to all, everyday from 10am-4pm until 15th January 2026 (excluding bank holidays!).
September 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The new exhibition at the Iris Murdoch Archives at Kingston University - 'Iris Murdoch: Rhyme and Reason', is now open!
If you're in Kingston though, why not visit the exhibition in person. It's free and accessible to all, everyday from 10am-4pm until 15th January 2026 (excluding bank holidays!).
If you're in Kingston though, why not visit the exhibition in person. It's free and accessible to all, everyday from 10am-4pm until 15th January 2026 (excluding bank holidays!).
'In the poetry I am trying to change my old wicked god into a good god, but to change our gods we have to change ourselves.'
Publishing with @ChattoBooks on 06.11.25
www.penguin.co.uk/books/470920...
Publishing with @ChattoBooks on 06.11.25
www.penguin.co.uk/books/470920...
September 19, 2025 at 1:36 PM
'In the poetry I am trying to change my old wicked god into a good god, but to change our gods we have to change ourselves.'
Publishing with @ChattoBooks on 06.11.25
www.penguin.co.uk/books/470920...
Publishing with @ChattoBooks on 06.11.25
www.penguin.co.uk/books/470920...
Applications are open for the Barbara Stevens Heusel Research Fund for Early-Career Scholars. Closing date 1st November. Full details via the website:
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August 29, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Applications are open for the Barbara Stevens Heusel Research Fund for Early-Career Scholars. Closing date 1st November. Full details via the website:
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Her politics changed radically throughout her life. For much more, see this superb new work by Gary Browning...
August 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Her politics changed radically throughout her life. For much more, see this superb new work by Gary Browning...
'I don’t in fact feel too much identification with the ass that I was... How little work figures in this record – except for philosophy as I used to do it, &
that very boring. The things which deeply sustain –the novels – get little mention.'
Journal, November 1968
that very boring. The things which deeply sustain –the novels – get little mention.'
Journal, November 1968
August 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
'I don’t in fact feel too much identification with the ass that I was... How little work figures in this record – except for philosophy as I used to do it, &
that very boring. The things which deeply sustain –the novels – get little mention.'
Journal, November 1968
that very boring. The things which deeply sustain –the novels – get little mention.'
Journal, November 1968
They're out there...
August 8, 2025 at 8:50 AM
They're out there...
The new book has arrived! Very pleased to add this to the 'Iris Murdoch Today' collection from @springernature.com, all eight of which were published in the past three years.
Full details here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Full details here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
August 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
The new book has arrived! Very pleased to add this to the 'Iris Murdoch Today' collection from @springernature.com, all eight of which were published in the past three years.
Full details here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Full details here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
A rogues' gallery of Murdoch characters...spot a favourite?
July 15, 2025 at 11:06 AM
A rogues' gallery of Murdoch characters...spot a favourite?
'Learned people, intellectuals, have lost their confidence, their kind of protest is being esoteric. And at the other end it's smashing things. There's a gap where the theories ought to be, where the thinking ought to be.'
June 4, 2025 at 12:03 PM
'Learned people, intellectuals, have lost their confidence, their kind of protest is being esoteric. And at the other end it's smashing things. There's a gap where the theories ought to be, where the thinking ought to be.'
May 31, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Lovely to receive @lucyoulton.bsky.social's new book from @springernature.com! An excellent addition to the 'Iris Murdoch Today' series from Palgrave MacMillan.
For more details on the book, and the series, follow the link
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
For more details on the book, and the series, follow the link
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
May 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Lovely to receive @lucyoulton.bsky.social's new book from @springernature.com! An excellent addition to the 'Iris Murdoch Today' series from Palgrave MacMillan.
For more details on the book, and the series, follow the link
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
For more details on the book, and the series, follow the link
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
New Podcast Episode! We talk to Mark Hopwood from Sewanne, University of the South, about his new book - The Moral Philosophy of Iris Murdoch - from Routledge.
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April 30, 2025 at 8:22 AM
New Podcast Episode! We talk to Mark Hopwood from Sewanne, University of the South, about his new book - The Moral Philosophy of Iris Murdoch - from Routledge.
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Easter day. Christ is risen. How suddenly pagan that seems to me – or rather I see it from some new viewpoint where Christ is one with the pagan gods. A great apprehension of gods, now, but not of God.'
Murdoch's Journal, 29 March, 1959.
Murdoch's Journal, 29 March, 1959.
April 20, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Easter day. Christ is risen. How suddenly pagan that seems to me – or rather I see it from some new viewpoint where Christ is one with the pagan gods. A great apprehension of gods, now, but not of God.'
Murdoch's Journal, 29 March, 1959.
Murdoch's Journal, 29 March, 1959.
Now available for pre-order! The first collection examining Murdoch's theological thought in decades: huge thanks to @amyinvernizzi.bsky.social and all at #PalgraveMacmillan @springer1842.bsky.social.
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April 14, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Now available for pre-order! The first collection examining Murdoch's theological thought in decades: huge thanks to @amyinvernizzi.bsky.social and all at #PalgraveMacmillan @springer1842.bsky.social.
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...