Homage to Qwert Yuiop

Homage to Qwert Yuiop (1986) — published in the United States as But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen?

The contents of the book are arranged loosely by subject, covering "travel, language, film, music and, overwhelmingly, literature.

Burgess was widely known as a polyglot, and frequently includes linguistic anecdotes (etymology and so forth), from English, Russian, Greek, Latin and Malay.

Burgess also writes on the movie business, including a celebration of Sophia Loren and accounts of his own experiences as a scriptwriter.

The book displays the tremendous amount of knowledge Burgess had accumulated by the age of 66, especially concerning geography, travel, cultures, languages and literature.