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Category Archives: Scoop
Good-bye to Fleet Street
The Independent newspaper, now online only, reports that the last journalists have now left their Fleet Street premises. The final departures were two reporters for the Dundee Sunday Post. In a panegyric to the former home of British journalism. the … Continue reading
Posted in London, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Daily Express, Fleet Street, Independent
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Waugh Event at Henley Festival Early Sell Out
The Henley Standard for today reports that the Evelyn Waugh event at the Henley Literary Festival next month was its first sell out. Philip Eade will discuss his new biography of Waugh in a session at Stonor Park where lunch will be … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Festivals, Scoop
Tagged Henley Literary Festival, Henley Standard, Philip Eade, Stonor Park
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Journalists in Literature Surveyed in New Book
In a book to be published tomorrow by Bloomsbury, Dr Sarah Lonsdale, who teaches at the City University London, surveys the role of the journalist in British literature over the period since 1900. The book is entitled The Journalist in British Fiction … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Remote People, Robbery Under Law, Scoop, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged PressGazette, Sarah Lonsdale, The Conversation
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William Boyd Names Scoop as a Favorite Classic
In response to a request by booksellers W H Smith, novelist William Boyd has named Scoop one of his five favorite classic novels. This comes as no surprise since Boyd wrote the screenplay for the 1987 TV adaptation of the … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Scoop, Television
Tagged W H Smith, William Boyd
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Waugh Adaptations in TLS
The TLS has posted an essay by Alexander Larman (“Waugh on screen”) on its weblog. In it, he notes his concerns about the upcoming BBC adaptation of Decline and Fall and offers advice about how to avoid problems by looking at previous … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Black Mischief, Decline and Fall, Film, Miscellaneous, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour, Television, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Alexander Larman, BBC, Jack Whitehall, James Wood, TLS, William Boyd
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“Scientific” List of Top 100 Novels Includes 3 by Waugh
The website “Trading Atoms” has made a comparison of six lists of Top 100 20th Century novels in an effort to come up with a more accurate (“scientific”) selection. The lists included those compiled both by widely based popularity polls … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Scoop
Tagged Top 100 Novels, Trading Atoms
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Satirical Novels Listed on Interactive Rating Site
The interactive rating site Ranker has started a list of the best satirical novels. So far, there are four of Waugh’s novels on the list: Decline and Fall, The Loved One, Scoop and A Handful of Dust (in descending order of rank) . There … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Decline and Fall, Scoop, The Loved One
Tagged Ranker, Satirical Novels
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Waugh Works Named in Newspaper Shortlists
Two of Waugh’s books feature in recent newspaper shortlists. In the Daily Mail, novelist Charles Cumming names Scoop as his desert island book. Cumming is a writer of spy novels said by some to be the John Le Carre and … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Humo(u)r, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Charles Cumming, Daily Mail, Shortlist Magazine
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The Daily Beast on The Daily Beast
In an article in the online newspaper The Daily Beast, Robert Bateman describes the origin of the paper’s name. He recounts how the 1935 Abyssinian War was influenced by the First Abyssinian War of 1895-96, which Italy lost disastrously. Benito Mussolini was 13 … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Abyssinia, Robert Bateman, The Daily Beast
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Evelyn Waugh, Winston Churchill and Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson, ex-Mayor of London and gadfly without portfolio of the Conservative Party, has written a book about his hero Winston Churchill. Entitled The Churchill Factor, this was published to much acclaim in 2014 and was excerpted in the Daily Telegraph. … Continue reading
Posted in Discussions, Scoop, World War II
Tagged Boris Johnson, Daily Telegraph, The Churchill Factor, Winston Churchill
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