{"product_id":"9781444711509-kiss-me-chudleigh","title":"Kiss Me, Chudleigh","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe World according to Auberon Waugh. The wit and wisdom of Auberon Waugh. \u003cp\u003eAuberon Waugh was a philosopher - savage, eccentric, but a philosopher nonetheless. More than any writer of his era, Auberon Waugh had a genius for dividing his readers, into the delighted and the infuriated, and he retains the ability to start a squabble, even from beyond the grave. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKiss Me, Chudleigh\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of Waugh's best writing. It is also a compact biography. It consists of excerpts from the things he wrote, drawn from every stage of his career, from his salad days on the \u003ci\u003eCatholic Herald\u003c\/i\u003e to his swansong on the \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProbably the most prolific journalist of his generation (and surely the wittiest) he wrote copiously for publications as diverse as the \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Daily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e. He wrote a political column for \u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e and a country column in the \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e, a wine column, a medical column and heaps of entertaining travel pieces. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArranged both chronologically and thematically, marrying his main preoccupations with the main phases of his life: school (where he received a record number of beatings); university (he came down from Oxford after one year, without a degree); Fleet Street (where he cut his teeth writing captions for the Sunday Mirror's bathing beauties); France (where he lived while writing his second novel, and returned regularly throughout his life); the House of Commons (where he won his spurs as a political correspondent); Grub Street (where he found his comic voice, writing for Private Eye); Somerset (where he made his home) and Abroad (from war reporting in Biafra to travel writing in Bangkok).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40908898730081,"sku":"9781444711509","price":9.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/4cbceadd21d5665a4f6479380828c76c.png?v=1689600798","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781444711509-kiss-me-chudleigh","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}