A portrait of the scandalous Oxford club, of which EW was briefly secretary, and looks at the lives of several of his contemporaries too. Seven of them found their way into Brideshead… The club had been a staid affair until Harold Acton joined. Celebrated alumni included Anthony Powell, Robert Byron, Henry Green, Claud Cockburn and Tom Driberg.
Hellfire: Evelyn Waugh and the Hypocrites Club
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The heady world described by Waugh - but, besides the fun and aristocrats, there were men with shellshock, women reading for degrees, and a false sense of security as Hitler rose to power.
Not Far From Brideshead: Oxford Between the Wars
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London`s New Scene – Art and Culture in the 1960s
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First non-fiction collection by the author of Lullaby and Adèle. A confrontation with the strictures placed on women in LS’s Moroccan homeland.
Sex and Lies
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The author's German grandparents were 'Mitlaufer' - those who went with the flow in the Third Reich. They just wanted to forget, to bury it all under the wreckage... In this fascinating book... read more