Scoop - Evelyn Waugh Reviews

My first introduction into Evelyn Waugh's strange world of London journalism came with watching Stephen Fry's movie adaptation of "Vile Bodies", renamed "Bright Young Things" released in the UK in 2003. What interested me was the eccentricity, not just of the variety of funny characters, but of the storyline itself, ...  Read the complete review

It helps when reading this book to remember that Evelyn Waugh himself was a foreign correspondent in Abbysinnia as it then was and so this book is not only a delightful high farce but also a cutting satire. As he himself remarks in his preface, it may be hard for readers now to accept it but this is how the world was not so very long ago. ...  Read the complete review

“Delicious!” – that is how Irina, a college friend of mine who turned me on to the wonderland of classical music, would comment on a performance she enjoyed. Yeah, “DELICIOUS” is the right word to describe my feelings about the novel. For my musical, literary and culinary delights have much in common, and it’s ...  Read the complete review

The most wilfully absurd story of all Waugh's hilarious novels, a brutal satire on journalism and war which seems, in the light of News International and the media circus surrounding Kosovo, like it could have been written last week. It tells the story of William Boot, a nature journalist mistakenly dispatched to cover a foreign war, ...  Read the complete review