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Category Archives: Non-fiction
Penguin UK Issue TV Tie-in Edition of Decline and Fall
Penguin Books have announced the publication of a TV tie-in edition of Waugh’s first novel Decline and Fall. This will be issued later this week on 23 March 2017. Aside from a cover photo of Jack Whitehall looking rather clueless in … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Decline and Fall, Items for Sale, Rossetti: His Life and Works, Television
Tagged Chapman and Hall, Penguin Books, TV Tie-in Edition
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Waugh in Reviews
The Prufrock column in this week’s Weekly Standard magazine contains this reference to the new book Ronald Knox: A Man for All Seasons, with a link to a review of the book: The Catholic priest Ronald Knox made a deep … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Catholicism, Newspapers, Ronald Knox, Sword of Honour
Tagged Ben Judah, Financial Times, Greg Morrison, London Review of Books, Rosemary Hill, Sreven Runciman, University Bookman, Weekly Standard
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Addis Ababa Today
The Guardian in a feature-length article by Jason Burke in its “Cities” series describes the growing unrest in Ethiopia. This has its roots in the country’s land ownership policies under which the government owns all the land and allows development only … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Remote People, Waugh in Abyssinia
Tagged Addis Ababa, Guardian
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Waugh in the Papers
There are references to Waugh and his works in several major newspapers. In The Weekend Australian, an article in their opinion section urged Brits, Yanks and Aussies to stop blaming voters they view as irredeemably dim for results such as Brexit, Trump and, in … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Catholicism, Edmund Campion, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged Financial Times, Graham Greene, Roy Hattersley, The Irish Times, The Spectator, The Weekend Australian
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Waugh’s Psychogeographic Experience
In a posting to his weblog The Hollywood Walker, writer Geoff Nicholson compares the travel experiences in Malta of Evelyn Waugh and Thomas Pynchon. This seems to have been suggested to him by Paul Fussell’s 1980 book Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars. … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Humo(u)r, Labels
Tagged Geoff Nicholson, Malta, Psychogeography, The Hollywood Walker
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Visit to Oslo
A letter from Evelyn Waugh to a Mr Some on the stationery of the Grand Hotel in Oslo is to be sold by Forum Auctions later this month. The letter would have been written in August 1947 while Waugh was on … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography & Sculpture, Auctions, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Letters
Tagged Edvard Munch, Gustav Vigeland, Norway
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“Two Lives” Reviewed
Waugh’s biographies of two Roman Catholic priests (Edmund Campion and Ronald Knox) were published as a single volume entitled Two Lives in 2002. A paperback edition was issued in 2005. Both editions were published by Continuum International Publishing, an independent academic press … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Edmund Campion, Evelyn Waugh, Ronald Knox
Tagged Eve Tushnet, Patheos
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Evelyn Waugh and the “Catholic Novel”
A blogger writing as Tychy has posted an article billed as a review of Graham Greene’s 1938 novel Brighton Rock but is really an essay on Greene’s writing as a Roman Catholic novelist. The blogger (a non-catholic) begins by comparing Greene’s … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Catholicism, Edmund Campion, Essays, Articles & Reviews
Tagged Andrew Biswell, Anthony Burgess, Brighton Rock, Graham Greene, The Tablet, Tychy
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Waugh Topic of Lecture and Preview
This month will see Waugh’s biographer Martin Stannard lecture in Oxford and the BBC’s film of Decline and Fall previewed in Cardiff: Campion Hall in Oxford will host a lecture by Prof Martin Stannard entitled “No Abiding City: Evelyn Waugh and America”. Stannard, … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Complete Works, Decline and Fall, Edmund Campion, Oxford, Television, The Loved One, Wales
Tagged Anthony Burgess Society, BBC, Campion Hall, Martin Stannard
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