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Brideshead author Evelyn Waugh 'and his three homosexual lovers at Oxford'

14.08.09
Evelyn Waugh fell in love with three fellow male students at Oxford and had "fully fledged" homosexual affairs with them, according to a new biography of the novelist... more

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The sign of a great writer: quit while you’re ahead

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Kind of adventure at The Double Club

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Stop bashing Brideshead

02.10.08
It's unfair to compare Julian Jarrold's version of Brideshead Revisited to the classic TV series — but if only he'd taken more risks. ... more

Brideshead is hurriedly revisited

30.09.08
After more than 60 years, Brideshead Revisited has finally made it to the big screen in a thoughtful and handsomely mounted adaptation. ... more

Don't ask me to revisit braying Brideshead

08.08.08
Those of us who passed through Oxbridge in the Eighties tend to have strong feelings about the 1981 TV version of Brideshead Revisited... more

Revisited Brideshead is no match for TV ancestor

07.08.08
Much-anticipated new interpretation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited becomes consumed with nostalgia for the Granada series.... more

Yet another award - but I still can't read Rushdie

11.07.08
Good God! What a genius I had when I wrote that book," exclaimed Swift, on rereading his early masterpiece, The Tale of a Tub... more

Brides-ted Resuscitated - reprieve as Aloysius the bear is set to appear in £10million movie adaptation of classic English novel

18.05.08
To purists, he was an essential part of that classic English novel Brideshead Revisited. So they were aghast when it was revealed Aloysius the teddy bear would not feature in the £10million movie adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's upper-class saga. However, as our picture reveals, Lord Sebastian Flyte's furry companion has been granted a reprieve – even if he has lost rather a lot of weight since last seen in the 1981 TV version ... more

The Brits really are coming

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The magical madness of my boyhood hero Waugh

18.04.08
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London squares open up for the weekend

07.06.07
A total of 163 private garden spaces in central London will be open to the public on Saturday and Sunday for the Open Garden Squares weekend.... more

The ultimate pub guide

20.12.06
Kate Moss has decreed that pubs beat parties, clubs or bars. Luckily, London has a fantastic array of watering holes. Here we select the best places to huddle this Christmas.... more

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