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As a major new biography about Noel Coward is published half a century on from his death, Martin Chilton looks back on the life of the trailblazing playwright with ‘a talent to amuse’

Is the trend for epic movies and hefty novels getting too much? Our critics redress the balance with a classic compilation of shorter works – plus 10 long ones that are worth your time

The property’s current tenants have refused to leave the property or allow estate agents and prospective buyers in.

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

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

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…

Increasing capacity would restore patient confidence, reduce waiting lists and improve staff morale

Named after the gentlemen’s club in Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour books, its doors opened in 2004.

In this series, writers nominate a book that changed their life – or at least their thinking.

What would the famously acerbic novelist reveal? By Chris Hall

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: