- Drag Amazon+EWS to your favorites bar for all your Amazon needs and support the Evelyn Waugh Society at no extra cost to yourself.
Category Archives: A Handful of Dust
Precocious Waughs Reviewed in Italian Press
Aridea Fezzi Price writing in Il Giornale, an Italian language newspaper published in Milan, reviews Precocious Waughs. This is one of the first volumes published in the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project and the first of 12 to be included … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Alexander Waugh, Biographies, Brideshead Revisited, Complete Works, Diaries, Evelyn Waugh, Lancing, Newspapers
Tagged Aridea Fezzi Price, Il Giornale
Comments Off on Precocious Waughs Reviewed in Italian Press
Andrew Marr and Ma Meyrick
BBC4 is rebroadcasting Andrew Marr’s 2009 documentary series The Making of Modern Britain. Yesterday, this reached Episode 4: “Having a Ball.” This covered the 1920s, and both opened and closed with a party. Marr began by mixing a drink he … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Documentaries, Television Programs
Tagged Andrew Marr, Bath and Bottle Party, BBC, Bright Young Things, Ma Meyrick, The 'Twenties
Comments Off on Andrew Marr and Ma Meyrick
Waugh Letter to French Translator
London booksellers Peter Harrington have on offer a 1946 letter from Evelyn Waugh to a translator who was interested in producing a French version of Vile Bodies. This is Jean Dauven who apparently had asked Waugh a number of questions … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Items for Sale, Letters, Vile Bodies
Tagged Jean Dauven, Peter Harrington Booksellers, translations
Comments Off on Waugh Letter to French Translator
Celebrities and Waugh: Roundup
The press is replete with celebrities citing Evelyn Waugh this week. In the Daily Express, actor Freddie Fox cited Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited as one of his six favorite books: “Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint” is … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Film, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Daily Express, Freddie Fox, Irish Times, Kristin Scott Thomas, Richard Prendlebury, Taki's Magazine, The Tatler
Comments Off on Celebrities and Waugh: Roundup
Penguin Book Cover Exhibit Opens
An exhibit has opened at the Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft devoted to a Penguin Book “modern makeover by designers from the worlds of music, fashion and street art (including Banksy).” This began in 1998 and is explained by one … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Art, Photography & Sculpture, Bibliophilia, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Events, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged 20 Years of Penguin Essentials, Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft, John Hamilton, Penguin Books, The Independent
Comments Off on Penguin Book Cover Exhibit Opens
Waugh Novel Among Abebooks’ 2017 Top Sellers
Abebooks has announced its highest priced books for 2017. A set of Waugh’s war trilogy came in at #16 and sold for $12,500. Here is the seller’s description: First editions of each volume in the author’s acclaimed Sword of Honour … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh, First Editions, Items for Sale, Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen, Unconditional Surrender/The End of the Battle
Tagged Abebooks. J F Powers
Comments Off on Waugh Novel Among Abebooks’ 2017 Top Sellers
Waugh’s Influence: A Roundup
–Jessica Fellowes, niece of the creator of Downton Abbey, Julian Fellowes, has written a novel. This follows several companion books relating to the TV series. The novel is entitled The Mitford Murders and sounds like a combination of Agatha Christie … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Interviews, Newspapers
Tagged Damon Young, Financial Times, Harry mount, Il Piccolo (Trieste), Irish Times, James Salter, Jessica Fellowes, Patrick Skene Catling, The Asian Age
Comments Off on Waugh’s Influence: A Roundup
A Handful of Monopoly
Tom Utley writing in the Daily Mail compares the board game of Monopoly to the ending of Waugh’s novel A Handful of Dust. He recalls a disastrous holiday in the Scottish isles where his family endured endless rainfall in a … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Newspapers
Tagged Daily Mail, Monopoly, Tom Utley
Comments Off on A Handful of Monopoly
The Baronets Heygate
A Northern Ireland blogger posting as Lord Belmont has put up a history of the Heygate family of which John Heygate was a member. Heygate is perhaps best remembered as having alienated the affections of Evelyn Waugh’s first wife. He … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies
Tagged Evelyn Gardner, John Heygate, Lord Belmont of Northern Ireland
Comments Off on The Baronets Heygate
A Handful of Hard Cheese
Michael Deacon writing in the Daily Telegraph finds echoes of Waugh in a recent story. This involves the rescue of TV presenter and explorer Benedict Allen from the jumgles of Papua New Guinea into which he had disappeared. Deacon is: … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Alexandra Jacobs, Daily Telegraph, Michael Deacon, New York Times
Comments Off on A Handful of Hard Cheese
