In one of this author's novels, an inept journalist is sent to document "a very promising little war" in the fictional state of Ishmaelia.
In one of this author's novels, an inept journalist is sent to document "a very promising little war" in the fictional state of Ishmaelia. This author drew on his time working for the Daily Mail to write that novel about William Boot. The protagonist of another novel by this author learns of his wife Brenda's infidelity with John Beaver, and travels to South America, where is he is forced to read Dickens novels aloud to Todd. This author of Scoop wrote about Tony Last in A Handful of Dust, and about a visit to Lord Marchmain in Venice in a novel narrated by Sebastian Flyte's friend, Charles Ryder, and titled for an opulent estate in Wiltshire. For 10 points, name this English author of Brideshead Revisited.
In one of this author's novels, an inept journalist is sent to document "a very promising little war" in the fictional state of Ishmaelia.
Evelyn Waugh [or Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh]