Category Archives: Fiction

Sword of Honour Among Telegraph’s Best War and History Books

Posted on December 5, 2014 by Jeffrey Manley

Waugh’s Sword of Honour Trilogy was listed by the Daily Telegraph earlier this year among “Best War and History Books of All Time.” The list consisted of 35 books, including both fiction and history in English and translation. Here is the … Continue reading →

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Waugh Cameo in BBC Series on Tatler Magazine

Posted on November 25, 2014 by Jeffrey Manley

BBC has started a series of three programs on Tatler magazine: Posh People: Inside Tatler. In the first episode (Monday, 24 November) Matthew Bell, newly appointed Commissioning Editor, is among those interviewed. He was formerly the society diarist for the Independent … 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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Lecture by Dr. Lisa Colletta at the American University of Rome, “Travelers, Exile, and Expats: British Novelists in Hollywood”

Posted on November 10, 2014 by Antony F. P. Vickery

On November 13 at 7:00 p.m., at the American University of Rome, Dr. Lisa Colletta will give her inaugural lecture as a full professor at AUR. Based upon her 2013 book exploring the same subject, her lecture “Travelers, Exile, and … Continue reading →

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Complete Works Event at Literary Leicester Festival, Nov. 12

Posted on November 4, 2014 by Antony F. P. Vickery

From the Arts & Humanities Research Council’s news pages: It’s been just over a year since work began on the first ever Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh. Together with Oxford University Press and the Waugh family, the project has been … Continue reading →

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Previously Unknown Evelyn Waugh Letters for Sale at Bonhams

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Antony F. P. Vickery

Three previously unknown letters from Evelyn Waugh to his friend Eleanor Watts, the girlfriend of the man who ran off with the novelist’s wife in 1929, are to be sold at Bonhams Fine Books, Atlases, Manuscripts and Photographs Sale on … Continue reading →

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New Age Waugh

Posted on October 26, 2014 by Jeffrey Manley

This week’s New York Times Book Review contains a review by writer David Leavitt of a novel by British satirist Edward St. Aubyn that was originally published in England in 1998. The novel, entitled On the Edge, is compared to … Continue reading →

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Scoop Included in Daily Telegraph Top 100

Posted on October 24, 2014 by Jeffrey Manley

Last month the Daily Telegraph published a list of the 100 novels everyone should read.  This includes translations as well as books in English. There is no explanation of how or by whom the list was compiled or whether the books … Continue reading →

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Inaugural Dead Meet Up, London, Nov. 26th: “The Loved One” and the Reality of Embalming

Posted on October 23, 2014 by Antony F. P. Vickery

There is nothing new under the sun. Except, perhaps, this: On Wed., Nov. 26th, at Barts Pathology Museum in London, Dead Meet (“Dating and Networking for Death Professionals”), is holding its Inaugural Dead Meet Up, a networking event at which … Continue reading →

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Peter Harrington’s Evelyn Waugh catalog

Posted on June 7, 2014 by Antony F. P. Vickery

The bookseller Peter Harrington’s Evelyn Waugh catalog contains many desirable volumes, none more so than Graham Greene’s inscribed copy of Helena (£25,000). Note, however, the last sentence in PH’s description of the item: First edition, first impression, large paper issue, … Continue reading →

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