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Roundup: Football, Ocean Liners and Bankers
–In the sports weblog Onside View, a blogger compares Waugh’s opening chapters of his 1930 travel book Labels to the situation facing Arsenal FC’s new manager: … Waugh travelled, and one of his earlier writings on such subject, Labels, saw … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Diaries, Labels, Newspapers, Scoop, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Australian Financial Review, Daily Mail, Frieze, Little Falls(WI) Journal, Onside View, recode.net
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A. A. Gill (1954-2016), R.I.P.
The journalist and humorist A A Gill has died at the age of 62, the same relatively young age at which Evelyn Waugh died. He spent most of his career writing for the Sunday Times but also wrote a memoir … Continue reading
Posted in Humo(u)r, Newspapers
Tagged A A Gill, Australian Financial Review, Daily Telegraph
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Robert Byron, Dangerous Lunatic
The latest edition of the Australian Financial Review contains a story by Nick Hordern about Robert Byron, an outstanding British travel writer of the 1930s. The focus of the article is Byron’s book The Road to Oxiana which several critics have acclaimed … Continue reading
Posted in Letters
Tagged Australian Financial Review, Harold Acton, Nick Hordern, Robert Byron
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