—The Spectator reviews a new “campus novel”. This is called Seduction Theory and is written by Emily Adrian. Here is the opening paragraph: There is a fine tradition of campus novels that stretches from Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited (1945) and Kingsley … Continue reading →| The Evelyn Waugh Society
While contemporary in its subject matter, the novel offers the good old-fashioned pleasures of prose and plot. Its madcap antics and Waughian wit and wordplay are a joy, and a breath of fresh air in a landscape of contemporary literary fiction that tends to favour either affectlessness or earnestness. Despite Mount having less direct experience with hedge funds than politics, the details of the financial world in The Pentecost Papers, which he credits to multiple sources in the acknowledgemen...| The Evelyn Waugh Society
–Novelist Dan Fesperman in LitHub.com discusses five novels which are set in realistic but imaginary places. One of those is Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop: …Waugh’s skewering of Fleet Street, published in 1938, is set in the East Africa nation of Ishmaelia, … Continue reading →| The Evelyn Waugh Society
The latest edition of the Society’s journal Evelyn Waugh Studies has been distributed. Here is the message of the Society’s Secretary Jamie Collinson that accompanied the distribution: The latest Evelyn Waugh Studies – edition 55.3 – is ready for your reading pleasure. … Continue reading →| The Evelyn Waugh Society
–A profile of author David Pryce-Jones has been posted on the website Onward and Upward. This is written by Jay Nordlinger and is a well-written, concise survey of Pryce-Jones’s life and works. Here’s an excerpt:| The Evelyn Waugh Society
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–Ferdinand Mount is interviewed in a recent edition of The Times newspaper. This is reported by Johanna Thomas-Corr. Here is an excerpt in which Mount discusses his latest novel: The Pentecost Papers, Mount’s 29th book and 14th novel, is focused … Continue reading →| The Evelyn Waugh Society
–The religious journal First Things in its current edition (August/September) has a feature length article entitled ‘Waugh Against the Fogeys’. This is written by Jaspreet Singh Boparai. Here are the opening paragraphs: On June 17, 1953, the historian Hugh Trevor-Roper … Continue reading →| The Evelyn Waugh Society
–The most interesting item this week is a short essay posted on the literary website Dappled Things by Geoffrey Smagasz. This is called “Orphans of the Storm” and is based on the chapter of that name in Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited. Here are the opening paragraphs:| The Evelyn Waugh Society
—The Times newspaper has a story by Magnus Linklater about the recent gift of a substantial book collection to the charity Christian Aid in Edinburgh. Here are some excerpts: …Among the books collected over a lifetime by Halla Beloff, senior … Continue reading →| The Evelyn Waugh Society
–Literary journalist and novelist D J Taylor has a review in the 21 June 2025 edition of The Spectator. This relates to a new book by Nicola Wilson entitled Recommended! The Influencers Who Changed How We Read where she discusses … Continue reading →| The Evelyn Waugh Society
–This week’s Sunday Telegraph has an article entitled “The books that every 16-year-old boy should be reading.” This included short selections by several writers, including Simon Heffer who recommends Waugh’s Decline and Fall:| The Evelyn Waugh Society
–The latest edition of The Oldie contains an article that may be of interest. This is by A N Wilson and is entitled “Great War Stories”. Here is the opening paragraph:| The Evelyn Waugh Society