Evelyn Waugh
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Elizabeth's leafy legacy
Whether or not you are familiar with her name, most will be familiar with the dishes she helped make popular in the UK. As well as bringing Mediterranean fare to our shores, David helped to give vegetables a starring role in cooking, making meat-free mea from Shropshire Star Read more »
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Maggie
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher launching the Conservative manifesto on the Isle of Wight, May 1983 There are summer evenings in London when Piccadilly Circus looks impatient for its neon, when the rain is falling and the tourists appear to be weary of from The New York Book Review Read more »
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New audiobooks of Evelyn Waugh, George Saunders, Robin Sloan, Sherwood Anderson
In concert with the release of Evelyn Waugh’s works as e-books, Hachette presents audio versions of most of them read by an array of accomplished narrators. Among them are Simon Prebble and Christian Rodska reading Waugh’s great World War II trilogy, “Th from The Washington Post Read more »
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Rupert Everett: 'Sex is over. I'm not motivated by it any more'
Between the sheets: Everett with Natasha Richardson in The Comfort of Strangers, 1990. Photograph: Rex Features ‘Gay love, physical punishment, treachery and exile…’: Rupert Everett and Kenneth Branagh in the stage version of Another Country at the Queen from Guardian Unlimited Read more »
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Clarifications and corrections
A diary item last Thursday said that Esther Watson, granddaughter of Evelyn Waugh, had failed to gain a place at university after attending Taunton School. In fact, while she was educated in Taunton, she was never a pupil at Taunton School. A report on M from Daily Mail - UK Read more »
