A Handful of Dust, Evelyn WaughTaking its title from T. S. Eliot's modernist poem The Waste Land, Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust is a chronicle of Britain's decadence and social disintegration between the First and Second World Wars. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Murray Davis. After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of

young Frankie is never quite sure enough of herself to take centre stage

Beauregard “Bug” Montage is an honest mechanic

but one whose pages contain information they shouldn't

their new lodger

But what of the women

"In this sharp

Terry theorized that the Son of Sam attacks were masterminded by a Yonkers-based cult that was responsible for other ritual murders across the country

every moment of fear

whether they are our intimate partners

marvellous

he kills the farmer and his wife

and it’s caused by the changing flavor of the food we eat