Category Archives: Fiction

Waugh Books Feature in Best of Year Listings

Posted on December 5, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

UK newspapers have begun listing their best of the year selections, and books about Waugh feature in several of them. Philip Eade’s biography was named in numerous papers. The Financial Times included the book in its selections of best literary non-fiction: … Continue reading →

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Scoop Rebroadcast on BBC Radio 4

Posted on December 3, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

BBC Radio 4 Extra earlier this week rebroadcast a two-hour adaptation of Waugh’s 1938 novel Scoop. This was written by Jeremy Front who has also adapted for radio Decline and Fall (2016), Sword of Honour (2013) and Brideshead Revisited (2003). The Scoop dramatization was first … Continue reading →

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David Pryce-Jones Reviews Eade Biography (Updated)

Posted on December 2, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

David Pryce-Jones, son of author Alan Pryce-Jones who was Waugh’s near contemporary at Oxford but not close friend, has reviewed Philip Eade’s biography of Waugh in the National Review. He begins with an apology for having written an unfavorable review … Continue reading →

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Waugh Novel on Winter Reading List

Posted on December 1, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

The news webpage Business Insider has published a list of recommended books by British authors for reading on the long, cold winter nights now being experienced rather early this year in the UK. Among the 15 books selected, about half are … Continue reading →

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Waugh and the “Inner Toff”

Posted on December 1, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

Author and journalist James Delingpole, writing in this week’s Spectator in an essay entitled “How I learned to embrace my inner toff,” cites Waugh as a precedent in defense of his reaction to certain recent changes in life style. Delingpole acquired … Continue reading →

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Tony Last on Fifth Avenue

Posted on November 29, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

In a recent post on his weblog, political commentator, enemy of political correctness and general iconoclast Taki Theodoracopulos (sometime contributor to the Spectator) has conjured up the image of Tony Last from Waugh’s novel A Handful of Dust among the anti-Trump protestors … Continue reading →

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Goodbye to More of All That

Posted on November 28, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

In the Guardian’s ongoing series of the “100 Best Nonfiction Books,” its latest selection is Goodbye to All That, Robert Graves’ memoir of his WWI experiences and early life. The Guardian describes the book’s depiction of the war as an: irreverent, comic, and … Continue reading →

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Grammarian Names Waugh Favorite Writer

Posted on November 25, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

British writer and grammarian Lynne Truss has named Evelyn Waugh her favorite writer. This is in an interview in today’s “One Minute With…” column in the i Newspaper, as reposted on PressReader. Truss is probably best known for her 2003 book Eats, Shoots … Continue reading →

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Waugh’s Books Ranked in Fashion Magazine Lists

Posted on November 24, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

Stylist magazine is a weekly print publication with free distribution within the UK. It has a books column which specializes in listing books in categories thought to be of interest to or likely to amuse its audience of young women. A recent … Continue reading →

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Judge Turns Novelist, Citing Waugh

Posted on November 24, 2016 by Jeffrey Manley

The Nottingham Post reports the story of a retiring judge who has published a novel. This is entitled Blackmail, which is about a robbery by a group of professional criminals, and is written by former judge of the Nottingham Crown Court, … Continue reading →

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