Evelyn WaughDecember 2022Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead mansion sold for £3m despite tenants refusing to leave15 Dec 2022 16.47 CETEvelyn Waugh’s once-beloved Cotswold mansion up for auction at

£2.5m11 Dec 2022 15.36 CETSeptember 2022From the Guardian archiveHemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea reviewed – archive, 195212 September 1952: Tough writing in the best sense of the word12

Sept 2022 06.30 CEST…… commentsJune 2022Top 10sTop 10 stories of male friendshipWriters from Alexandre Dumas to Jack Kerouac and Colson Whitehead have written fiction worth bonding with

about these sometimes uneasy alliances29 Jun 2022 16.06 CEST…… commentsMay 2022From the Observer archiveThe private diaries of Evelyn Waugh, 1973What would the famously acerbic novelist

that made a decade span village detectives, Edwardian butlers and Bright Young Things22 Sept 2021 17.27 CESTJune 2021Books that made meBen Macintyre: ‘I wish I’d written The Great Gatsby.

Doesn’t everyone?’The author and journalist on his two unopened copies of Stephen Hawking’s great work and not getting on with Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell trilogy25 Jun 2021 11.00 CESTDecember

2020Top 10sTop 10 most dislikable characters in fiction30 Dec 2020 11.00 CET…… commentsTop 10sTop 10 house parties in fiction16 Dec 2020 13.00 CET…… commentsMay 2020Look, don't touch: what

great literature can teach us about love with no contactWith our increased physical distance from each other, novels about forbidden touch and longing are more seductive than ever 22 May

2020 12.00 CESTMarch 2020Top 10sTop 10 books about boarding schoolFrom Evelyn Waugh to Molesworth, novels set in these places of privilege are microcosmic studies of oppression and

rebellion18 Mar 2020 13.18 CET…… commentsJanuary 2020The Guardian view on Brexit bells: striking the wrong noteEditorial: Proposals that Big Ben should chime and church bells ring to mark

Britain’s departure from the EU should not be given the time of day15 Jan 2020 19.20 CET…… commentsDecember 2019Evelyn Waugh letters shed light on his abandoned first novelIn correspondence

going to auction this week, the writer describes how he burned a manuscript titled The Temple at Thatch2 Dec 2019 17.13 CETAugust 2019Lost Girls by DJ Taylor review – love, war and

literature 1939-51An urbane attempt to offer belated autonomy to a small band of well-born, well-connected young women31 Aug 2019 09.58 CESTMay 2019Book clinicBook clinic: which books will

make me laugh out loud?From Martin Amis to Robert Robinson, our expert recommends the writers who provide a funny respite from real life4 May 2019 18.59 CEST…… commentsFebruary 2019In brief

: A Scribbler in Soho; Stubborn Archivist; All That Remains: A Life in Death – reviewA celebration of Auberon Waugh; a millennial caught between two countries; and Dr Sue Black on the

meaning of death24 Feb 2019 12.00 CETApril 2018Letter: Stéphane Audran was the perfect Cara in Brideshead RevisitedDerek Granger writes: No actress could have fitted more perfectly Evelyn

Waugh’s conception of Cara, Lord Marchmain’s mistress in Brideshead Revisited10 Apr 2018 18.17 CESTMarch 2018The Little Library CaféNovel recipes: sorrel soup from Brideshead RevisitedWhile

Charles would have definitely enjoyed this soup warm in Evelyn Waugh’s novel, Kate Young creates a version best served cold9 Mar 2018 07.00 CET…… commentsDecember 2017Rereading’Tis a strange

serpent – 10 of the most entertaining drinking bouts in literature From Viking magical mead poetry to Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall, here’s how writers have encapsulated an eternal boozy

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