Long ago in Evelyn Waugh: Portrait of an Artist (1958), Waugh’s first biographer ... bright and antiquated as a cuirass’.) He had a wicked sense of humour and a face like a pug. Everyone knows that ...

Among the topics under discussion are religion, truth in fiction, and Waugh's own periods of mental illness.Evelyn Waugh takes part in the series due to what he claims is "poverty", and that "everyone ...

The forbears whom Evelyn Waugh affectionately described in his unfinished autobiography A Little Leaning were professional men as far back as the eye could see: clergymen (mostly Scotch divines in the ...

A large collection of rare teddy bears, including one that starred in the 1980s TV drama Brideshead Revisited, has fetched ...

Jasleen Kaur, a 38 year-old Glaswegian, is this year's winner of the Turner Prize, Britain's foremost - and absurdly hyped - ...

It was written in 1930, by the British novelist Evelyn Waugh in his travel book Labels. Plus ça change . . .

In Believe Nothing Until It Is Officially Denied, Patrick Cockburn explores the fascinating life of his father, journalist ...

When Kingsley Amis described P D James as ‘Iris Murdoch with murder’ she was almost certainly greatly flattered by the ...

Coronation Street star Claire Sweeney has revealed that she’d like film a fight scene with Tracy McDonald actress Kate Ford.

Fantasy, theatricality, frivolity, and gaiety: the enduring legacy of Cecil Beaton, Stephen Tennant, Rex Whistler, et al.

31.7 x 26.7 cm. (12.5 x 10.5 in.) ...

Like the author’s previous popular biographies, which include “Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead” (2009) and “The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym” (2021), “Hardy ...