Vile Bodies

In this novel, as in 'Decline and Fall', the bright young things of Mayfair exercise their inventive minds and 'vile bodies' in every kind of capricious escapade.

Although he s best known for Brideshead Revisited, his melancholy look back at the twilight of the English aristocracy, it's Evelyn Waugh s genius for satire that truly distinguishes him. His acid wit and relentless drive to uncover hypocrisy and pretension make him a writer whose sweet way with words is equally matched by his powerful, almost bitter satires of modern culture.