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Category Archives: Scoop
End of Wintertime (UK) Roundup
–A review by Dylan Neri in The Spectator about a book entitled Carbon: The Book of Life by Paul Hawken opens with this: There is a scene in Evelyn Waugh’s The Loved One in which a magazine’s advice columnist ‘the Guru … Continue reading
Valentine’s Day Roundup
–Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the New York Times Book Review has posted this notice in its “Read Like the Wind” column. It is written by Book Review editor Joumana Khatib: The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy, by Evelyn … Continue reading
Posted in Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Scoop, The Loved One, Vile Bodies
Tagged Daily Mail, New York Times, P.G.Wodehouse, Robert Plunket, The Daily Telegraph, The Hudson Review, The Spectator, W H Pritchard
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Roundup: Renewed Interest in Rosemary Tonks
–The London Review of Books reviews the reprints of three of the later novels by poet-novelist Rosemary Tonks. She wrote during the period 1963-1980. After a rather difficult life, she stopped writing in 1980 to become a fundamentalist Christian, dying … Continue reading
Posted in A Tourist in Africa, Newspapers, Scoop, Vile Bodies
Tagged London Review of Books, Rosemary Tonks, The Guardian, The Spectator, Vanity Fair
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New Year’s Roundup
–Writing in The Spectator, Druin Burch reviews the press coverage of the Lucy Letby case (recently convicted of murdering babies in her care) and recalls the case of an earlier nurse (Benjamin Geen) who was also convicted of murder. The … Continue reading
Posted in Labels, Newspapers, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged Angelus, National Review, The Spectator
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Winter Solstice Roundup
–Novelist Robert Harris has recommended the best 5 collections of letters for the Wall Street Journal. Those of Evelyn Waugh are included: Born in London in 1903, Evelyn Waugh was a reactionary whose distaste for the modern world included the … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Letters, Newspapers, Oxford, Scoop
Tagged Anglotopia, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Tablet, Wall Street Journal
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Thanksgiving Roundup
–The New Statesman has an article about the crime novels of James Lee Burke. This is by Michael Henderson who describes the Louisiana setting of the novels featuring the characters of Dave Robicheaux and Cletus Purcel. Here’s an excerpt with … Continue reading
Posted in Alec Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Fiction, Newspapers, Podcast, Scoop
Tagged James Lee Burke, New Statesman
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Columbus Day Roundup
–The Australian Financial Review carries the story of a new novel that may be of interest. It is written by Pam Sykes: …Her latest novel, Wives Like Us, skewers the ultra-rich residents of the Cotswolds, a bucolic protected area of … Continue reading
Roundup: Decline in Standards and Increase in Price
—The Times has published a sort of interview with William Boyd on the occasion of the publication of his latest novel, Gabriel’s Moon. Here’s an excerpt: There is no point attempting to whitewash old attitudes. Trying to tidy up the bad … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Interviews, Miscellaneous, Newspapers, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged Catholic World Report, Evening Standard, Guardian, Jonkers Booksellers, The Oldie, The Times, William Boyd
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Autumnal Equinox Roundup
–The political-economic online journal Compact has an article entitled “The End of the Churchill Myth.” This is by Nathan Pinkoski who describes how the principles on which Churchill based his war and postwar foreign policy (as adopted, amended and applied … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Observer, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Television, Waugh Family, World War II
Tagged Compact, Deadline, Financial Times, The Oldie
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Mid-September Roundup
–A new biography of Claud Cockburn, friend and cousin of Evelyn Waugh has been published. This is entitled Believe in Nothing Until It is Officially Denied and is reviewed on the British political website conservativehome.com. The book by Patrick Cockburn … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Biographies, Complete Works, Film, Newspapers, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged Claud Cockburn, Conservativehome.com, Oxford University Press, The Times, Wall Street Journal
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