Category Archives: A Handful of Dust

Visit to Combe Florey

Posted on October 29, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

A West Country blogger (Hasenschneck, which, I think, means rabbit-snail in German) has posted several photos with narrative of a recent visit to Waugh’s house and grave at the village of Combe Florey. The entry is entitled “By Special Request” and … Continue reading →

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Hetton Abbey Cited in Gilbert Scott Article

Posted on September 25, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

Architectural historian and critic Gavin Stamp refers to Hetton Abbey in his recent Spectator review of a biography of George Gilbert Scott: Briefing his illustrator for the jacket of A Handful of Dust (1934), Evelyn Waugh asked for a country house in … Continue reading →

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Candace Bushnell, Waugh Fan

Posted on June 21, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

U.S. novelist Candace Bushnell is the featured writer in this week’s By the Book column in  the New York Times Book Review. She is best known for Sex and the City which was a collection of her columns from The New York Observer … Continue reading →

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WSJ Selects Waugh Novel for Book Group

Posted on May 14, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

The Wall Sreet Journal has announced an internet book group that will discuss Waugh’s 1934 novel A Handful of Dust. The group will be moderated by novelist Joseph Kanon, said to be best known for thrillers such as The Good … Continue reading →

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Waugh Surfaces in Bosnia

Posted on May 7, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

Mark Lawson in this week’s New Statesman reviews a novel by Jesse Armstrong which is said to have a distinct Wavian influence: Love, Sex and Other Foreign Policy Goals.  (The choice of title would not appear to have been influenced by … Continue reading →

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Guardian Adds Scoop to Top 100 Novels List

Posted on November 11, 2014 by Jeffrey Manley

Robert McCrum, novelist and literary journalist, has for several months been writing a weekly Guardian column naming and discussing what he considers the 100 best novels in English. He is working through the history of English novel year by year … Continue reading →

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Waugh Wins Place in Literary Bad Mothers Competition

Posted on March 29, 2014 by Jeffrey Manley

In recognition of English Mother’s Day and to counterbalance the rash of  greeting card  excess, the Guardian has published an article by Moira Redmond entitled Bad Mothers in Books: a literary litany.  Top award goes to Charles Dickens with a hat … Continue reading →

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