Having finished Evelyn Waugh’s latest novel Brideshead Revisited in May 1945, the aristocraticViolet Clifton was fuming. And the chatelaine of Lytham Hall in Lancashire felt she had goodreason ...

Seeking something light to read following the Christmas doldrums I decided to look into what I remembered as one of the funniest of Evelyn Waugh’s comic novels, Black Mischief. I discovered that ...

Alexander Waugh, who has died aged 60, was the son of the columnist Auberon Waugh and grandson of the novelist Evelyn Waugh, and a widely accomplished and colourful character in his own right. A ...

But on days like Veterans Day, when I seek to make sense of my service, I read Men at Arms by British author and humorist Evelyn Waugh. I first read Waugh’s classic in 2000 or so. About 16 with ...

EXCLUSIVE: The company that holds rights to the literary estates of Langston Hughes and Evelyn Waugh is heading on a West Coast charm offensive and has snapped up the estate of Somerset Maugham ...

Waugh was born in 1903, the same year as that generation’s other indestructible writer, George Orwell. Waugh’s father, Arthur, was a theatrical man of letters. He was scared of church organs, scissors ...

EXCLUSIVE: Film and TV adaptations of works by the likes of Evelyn Waugh and Langston Hughes could be incoming following a deal struck between Artists, Writers & Artisans (AWA) and International ...

The house Waugh stayed in was built for entertaining and is at least the third on the site. Madresfield first appears in the Domesday Book and a 12th-century Great Hall lies at its core. It was ...

All the answers here are linked in some way. Once you’ve spotted the connection, any you didn’t know the first time around should become easier. Blue-footed, red-footed, masked and Peruvian ...