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Tag Archives: A N Wilson
Roundup
–Novelist and biographer A N Wilson has published a detailed review of John Betjeman’s recently rebroadcast program Metroland. This appears in a recent issue of the Daily Mail. The BBC rebroadcast was mentioned in the previous Roundup. Wilson who was … Continue reading
Posted in Letters, Scoop, Television, The Loved One
Tagged A N Wilson, City Journal, Daily Mail, Esquire, John Betjeman, New York Review of Books
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AN Wilson Returns to Brideshead
The Oldie joins the Spectator in commemorating this week’s 40th anniversary of the 1981 Granada TV adaptation of Brideshead Revisited. They send critic and novelist AN Wilson back to have another look. He begins by noting Waugh’s main themes: the … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Catholicism, Decline and Fall, Sword of Honour
Tagged A N Wilson, The Oldie
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Roundup: Boyd, Banville and Paper Hats
–Novelist William Boyd is interviewed in The Times by Robbie Millen. This is on the occasion of the publication of Boyd’s new novel Trio which is about the creation of a film in the late 1960s. After establishing Boyd’s somewhat … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Letters, Scoop, Sword of Honour, World War II
Tagged A N Wilson, Books from Scotland, John Banville, Lisa Hilton, The Critic, The Times, Washington Post, William Boyd
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Soho and Auberon Revisited
A new book about Soho has been written by Darren Coffield. This is Tales from the Colony Room: Soho’s Lost Bohemia. It was reviewed in a recent London Review of Books by novelist Andrew O’Hagan whose review may be even … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, London, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged A N Wilson, London Review of Books, Soho, The Oldie, The Times
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Summer Solstice Roundup
–Peter Quennell may be having a revival. Duncan McLaren (see previous post) has now been joined by A N Wilson in recounting his career. Wilson in a memoir posted by The Oldie discusses several first hand meetings he had with … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Letters, Newspapers, Rossetti: His Life and Works
Tagged A N Wilson, The Critic, The Hollywood Reporter, The Independent (Ireland), The Oldie, TLS
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Brideshead @ 75: A N Wilson, The Oldie and The Folio Society
The Oldie has posted A N Wilson’s introduction to the Folio Society’s 2018 reprint of Brideshead Revisited. While this may not be denominated by Wilson or The Oldie as a commemoration of the novel’s 75th anniversary, we should be entitled … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers
Tagged A N Wilson, The Folio Society, The Oldie
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Autumnal Equinox Round-up
–A N Wilson writing in the Times newspaper reviews a new book by Dominic Sandbrook. This is number 5 in a series Sandbrook is writing about the cultural and social history of England in the post Suez period. It covers … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Television
Tagged A N Wilson, Charles Moore, Daily Mail, Nicholas Coleridge, The Spectator, The Times, Wall Street Journal
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Folio Society Issues New Brideshead Edition
The Folio Society has issued a new illustrated edition of Brideshead Revisited in its Autumn collection. This is a 344-page hardback book in a slipcase, with an introduction by novelist and critic A N Wilson. According to the Society’s online … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, Items for Sale
Tagged A N Wilson, The Folio Society
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Milk in First (More)
Two papers today have independently quoted Evelyn Waugh on the issue of when to add milk to one’s tea. In the Liverpool Echo there is a feature article on the subject that opens with the claim that “Liverpool is the … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers, Scoop
Tagged A N Wilson, Daily Express, landline telephone, Liverpool Echo, milk in first, Sir Ian Ogilvy, Sydney Morning Herald, The Huffington Post
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Waugh, Helena and the Gnostics
George Weigel, author and Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC, has a written an essay aimed at generating interest in Waugh’s late novel Helena. Writing in the Catholic World Report, Weigel describes the novel … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Catholicism, Helena, Newspapers
Tagged A N Wilson, Catholic World Report, David Jones, George Weigel, Gnosticism, Laura Freeman, Observer, Rachel Cooke, Standpoint, The Spectator, Thomas Dilworth
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