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Adult Learners’ Week Special: A Handful of Dust
The Book Group is delighted to be taking part in Leicester libraries’ Adult Learners’ Week, which runs form 14-20 June 2014. On the Saturday 14th, we will be discussing A Handful of Dust, hailed by many as Evelyn Waugh’s best novel. Email Barbara to book your free place, or comment below to kickstart the conversation online. When: Saturday […]
Fiendish Friday Quiz #2: Answers
So… it’s not Friday. But here are the answers to Thomas Gribble’s second fiendish quiz nonetheless. Let us know how you do, and whether you’d like another this Friday. There’s more where this came from, and they don’t get any easier!
Fiendish Friday Quiz #1: Answers
Drumroll please… answers to Thomas Gribble’s first Waugh quiz can be found below. Let us know how you got on, then try out #2.
Fiendish Friday Quiz #2
Thomas Gribble’s quiz proved so popular that another soon appeared in the Evelyn Waugh Newsletter. Back in the eighties, Waugh fans had to wait months between installments. In the Waugh Corner of 2014 we are making you wait a week for what can only be our own perverse enjoyment. Remember, no googling, and answers next […]
Fiendish Friday Quiz
As part of our digitisation work here in the Waugh Corner, we will soon be making the entire back catalogue of the Evelyn Waugh Society’s publication, Evelyn Waugh Newsletter/Evelyn Waugh Studies, available through Leicester’s Special Collections Online. The newsletter has been running since 1967 and was originally edited by the eminent scholar Paul A. Doyle, who posted it […]
Coming Next: The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Email Barbara to join us and discuss Evelyn Waugh’s hallucinogenic semi-autobiography or comment below to kickstart the conversation online. When: Saturday 5th April, 11.00am-1.00pm Where: Leicester Central Library Contact: waughbookgroupleicester@gmail.com
Book Group: Decline and Fall
A swift and deliberate change in tone for the Book Group this month as we swapped the lyrical nostalgia of Brideshead Revisited for the cruel humour of Decline and Fall. Evelyn Waugh’s first novel follows the fortunes of Paul Pennyfeather, sent down from Oxford through no fault of his own and condemned – or so […]
Book Group: Brideshead Revisited
On Saturday 25th January 2014, the whole group met for the first time at Leicester Central Library to discuss Brideshead Revisited. This is a novel whose reputation goes before it, and those of us who hadn’t encountered it before didn’t know what to expect – but nevertheless knew they didn’t quite get what they were […]
In Search of Nancy: A first trip to the Evelyn Waugh Archive
Alexander Waugh’s library is shambolic and beautiful. The windows look out onto late autumn in Somerset, and the crackling fire next door scents everything with woodsmoke. A cat sleeps on a chair. I admire a special edition of Brideshead Revisited, which Alexander’s grandfather Evelyn had commissioned himself; like his grandson, Evelyn loved a well-crafted book […]
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