Category Archives: Fiction

Waviana in the Book Trade

Posted on December 20, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

A Baltimore dealer has on offer an original Hollywood film script of Waugh’s 1948 novel  The Loved One as written by Terry Southern and Christopher Isherwood. This is Royal Books on 25th St. This is a July 1964 draft of … Continue reading →

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Brideshead Revisited in Foreign Media

Posted on December 19, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Articles featuring Brideshead Revisited have appeared recently in Italian and Spanish news media. In the Italian-language Roman Catholic internet news site Radio Spada, Luca Fumagalli reviews the 1981 TV adaptation of the novel (although he notes that no Italian language … Continue reading →

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Wavian Roundup

Posted on December 18, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

—The Guardian reviews the new book by Nicholas Shakespeare, who wrote and directed the BBC’s 1980’s Arena TV documentary series known as The Waugh Trilogy. The book is entitled Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister and … Continue reading →

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Evelyn Waugh: An End and a Beginning

Posted on December 16, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

Writing in the Weekly Standard, Elizabeth Kantor examines the fascination of viewers with the Netflix series The Crown and compares it to the earlier ITV series Downton Abbey. The  article is entitled, with not too subtle irony, “Crown of Duty.”  In the course … Continue reading →

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The Baronets Heygate

Posted on December 15, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

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 →

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Revisiting Brideshead TV Series in Holland

Posted on December 14, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

A Dutch language internet entertainment website has posted a review of the 1981 Granada TV adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. This is on the occasion of its recent rebroadcast in the Netherlands on the ONS Channel. The reviewer Robert Gooijer opens … Continue reading →

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D J Taylor Reviews the Complete Works

Posted on December 11, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

In the current issue of Literary Review, literary critic and novelist D J Taylor reviews the first four volumes of Evelyn Waugh’s Complete Works. The review, entitled “Author of Himself”, manages to be at the same time thorough, scholarly and … Continue reading →

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Waugh and the Nazis?

Posted on December 1, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

An article in the independent news and opinion website PULSE has an article by Anas el Hawat entitled “On the Astonishment That Nazis Can ‘Still’ Have Taste” that opens with this: Evelyn Waugh [sic], on a visit to Germany in … Continue reading →

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Literary Drinking Bouts

Posted on December 1, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

In today’s Guardian there is an article in the “Rereading” column by Mark Forsyth discussing the 10 most entertaining discriptions of drinking bouts in literature. One of those included is from Waugh’s novel Decline and Fall: Decline and Fall starts … Continue reading →

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A Handful of Hard Cheese

Posted on November 30, 2017 by Jeffrey Manley

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 →

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