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Tag Archives: Sunday Times
Spring Equinox Roundup
–Several publications have posted recommended binge reading and watching for the homebound during the Wuhan coronavirus shut-down. Many of these include books or adaptations of books by Waugh: —The Guardian produced a list of 50 of the “Best Binge Watches: … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Decline and Fall, Newspapers, Ninety-Two Days
Tagged Forbes magazine, Guardian, Lucire magazine, mancunianmatters.co.uk, Sunday Times
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Memorial Day/Late-May Bank Holiday Roundup
–In a recent two-part article on the non-denominational religious website Patheos.com, the morality of the nuclear bombing of Japan is reconsidered. The article is made up of a collection of the views expressed on the moral and religious issues arising … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Auberon Waugh, Decline and Fall, Love Among The Ruins, Newspapers, Ronald Knox, Sword of Honour
Tagged Daily Mail, HeraldScotland, Patheos.com, Sunday Times, The New Criterion, University of Warwick
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Auberon Waugh (More)
Additional reviews of the new collection of Auberon Waugh’s writings (A Scribbler in Soho) are becoming available. The book was released earlier this week. Prof John Carey writing in the latest edition of the Sunday Times describes the contents as … Continue reading
Posted in Auberon Waugh, Collections, Humo(u)r, Newspapers
Tagged John Carey, Naim Attallah, Roger Lewis, Sunday Times, The Times
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Waugh on Sunday
This week’s Sunday Times contains an adulatory interview of novelist William Boyd. After describing his career at Gordonstoun School as happier than that of Prince Charles, the interview turns to his writing. His first book, published in 1983, was … … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Evelyn Waugh, Festivals, Interviews, Newspapers, Scoop, Sword of Honour
Tagged Michael Foot, Sunday Times, William Boyd
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Waugh Biographer Target of Poison Pen
Paula Byrne, is well known in this parish for her 2009 “partial life” of Waugh, Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead. She has also appeared and submitted papers at two Waugh conferences, one of which was notably presented in … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Biographies, Brideshead Revisited, Newspapers, Oxford
Tagged Daily Mail, Jonathan Bate, Paula Byrne, poison pen letters, Richard Brook, Sunday Times
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Interview at Castle Howard
The Sunday Times published an interview earlier this month of Victoria Howard. She is described as the new chatelaine of Castle Howard in North Yorkshire where both the TV and cinema versions of Brideshead Revisited were filmed. She refuses to … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptations, Brideshead Revisited, Festivals, Film, Newspapers, Television
Tagged Castle Howard, Eleanor Doughty, Sunday Times, Victoria Howard
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CWEW Diaries Volume Previewed in Sunday Times
The Sunday Times becomes the first paper to preview a volume of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh. The first four of these will be published at the beginning of September, in less than two week’s time. One of those … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Complete Works, Diaries, Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Alexander Waugh, Personal Writings, Sunday Times
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Waugh: Upper-Class Wannabe
Today’s Sunday Times in an “advice” column entitled “Mrs Mills Answers Your Questions” responds to a reader with an allusion to Evelyn Waugh: Example of bettersWhen a toff passed away recently, the obituary notice in The Times read that when a guest … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Newspapers
Tagged Mrs Mills, Sunday Times
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Waugh Books Feature in Best of Year Listings
UK newspapers have begun listing their best of the year selections, and books about Waugh feature in several of them. Philip Eade’s biography was named in numerous papers. The Financial Times included the book in its selections of best literary non-fiction: … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Books about Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Tagged Ann Pasternak Slater, Douglas Patey, Financial Times, Guardian, Philip Eade, Sunday Times
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