Evelyn waugh

Cover design by Bentley/Farrell/Burnett Penguin Books, 1978 reprint, 2121

As Evelyn Waugh's Cotswolds mansion goes up for sale, FEMAIL reveals the extraordinary life of the Brideshead Revisited author - including his gay lovers.

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Evelyn Waugh's brilliantly irreverent satire of Fleet Street, with an introduction by Alexander Waugh Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of The Daily Beast, has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another. Acting on a dinner party tip from Mrs Algernon Stitch, he feels convinced that he has hit on just the chap to cover a promising little war in…

The young businessman had fought for more than a year to keep his club open after it was billed ‘number one crime generator’ when locals complained, writes RICHARD KAY.

Cover design by Peter Bentley Penguin Books, 1980 reprint, 1794

Evelyn Waugh / Portrait by Henry Lamb

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Evelyn Waugh was born today in 1903. You can read his Art of Fiction interview here, but there’s also, courtesy of the Spectator’s seemingly endless archives, this unverified bit of trivia from a letter to the paper sent in 1971: Sir: Colin Wilson, your reviewer of Graham Greene’s autobiography A Sort of Life quotes from …