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Category Archives: Fiction
Bullingdon/Bollinger Faces Extinction
Sebastian Shakespeare in his Daily Mail gossip column reports that the Bullingdon Club at Oxford (on which Waugh based the Bollinger Club in his novel Decline and Fall) may soon die out for lack of interest: …The Buller is understood … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Bullingdon Club, Daily Mail, Sebastian Shakespeare
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Australian Journalist Cites Scoop
Australian journalist Mark Baker has cited Waugh’s novel Scoop as one of the books that changed his life: This peerless satire of the foibles and vanities of Fleet Street in the golden age of newspapers is as sharp and funny today … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Mark Baker, Sydney Morning Herald
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Waugh Appears in Student Reading List
The iNews (an online UK newspaper) has published a list of books that all well grounded students should read (not necessarily as part of a course or degree syllabus). The list consists of both fiction and non-fiction. For example, two … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged iNews, reading lists
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Simon Leys on Evelyn Waugh
This week’s issue of The Weekly Standard carries a review of a biography of Simon Leys (1935-2014). The review is entitled “Muddle Kingdon” and the reviewer is Stephen Miller. Leys was the pen name of Pierre Ryckmans, a Belgian who became … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Articles, Sword of Honour
Tagged Simon Leys, Steven Runciman, The Economist, The Weekly Standard
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Waugh and Hemingway and “Beat-up Old Bastards”
An article in The Huffington Post earlier this week discusses Ernest Hemingway’s claims to have killed 122 “Krauts” during WWII and compares that claim with those of Chris Kyle (subject of the autobiography and film American Sniper) to have killed 160 enemy … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Brideshead Revisited, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Letters, Newspapers, World War II
Tagged American Sniper, Ernest Hemingway, The Huffington Post
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Scoop in the News
There are several references to Scoop in the recent London papers. The TLS has an article in its Blog about the comic use of the language of telegrams. It mentions novels by P G Wodehouse, Mikhail Bulgakov and John Swartzwelder … Continue reading
Posted in Auctions, Events, London, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Guardian, Philip Norman, Sun, Sunday Times Magazine, The 60s, TLS, V&A Museum
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Video Bookseller
Booksellers Peter Harrington have stepped up their promotion by showing their prize offerings on YouTube. One of their video offerings is a first edition of Waugh’s 1928 novel Decline and Fall with a pristine dust wrapper. The book is presented by … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, First Editions, Items for Sale, London
Tagged Peter Harrington Booksellers, YouTube
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Oxford to Offer Waugh Seminar
The Oxford University Department of Continuing Education has announced a one-week seminar next summer on the topic Evelyn Waugh: Beyond Brideshead. The theme is explained in the announcement which was posted yesterday: Since his death 50 years ago, Evelyn Waugh’s … Continue reading
