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Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead mansion sold for £3m despite tenants refusing to leave

Cotswold home, currently housing ‘superfans’ who are paying rent of £5 a week, sold to online buyer

The Guardian - UK · Dec 15, 2022

Evelyn Waugh’s once-beloved Cotswold mansion up for auction at £2.5m

Grade-II*-listed eight-bedroom, six-bathroom Piers Court is where Waugh wrote many illustrious novels, including Brideshead Revisited

The Guardian - UK · Dec 11, 2022

Ninety years on, what can we learn from reading Evelyn Waugh's troubling satire Black Mischief?

Ninety years ago, in October 1932, the English satirist Evelyn Waugh published his third novel Black Mischief. He’d had a hit two years prior with Vile Bodies, a novel that made famous (even as it mocked) the slang and habits of the aristocratic Bright Young Things and propelled Waugh to…

The Conversation · Oct 12, 2022

Partygate Revisited: why Boris Johnson’s Downing Street is starting to sound like an Evelyn Waugh novel

When allegations arose some years ago that former prime minister David Cameron had behaved obscenely with a pig’s head during a Bullingdon Club event while at the University of Oxford, he distanced himself from the controversial group, saying:

The Conversation · Feb 23, 2022