Books by Michael Davie (editor)
The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh
by Michael Davie (editor)
A lot of it is about the absolutely amazing quantities that he drank. It’s full of hugely politically incorrect and almost self-parodic episodes but it’s also brilliant at catching the moment that life is turned into art.
Interviews where books by Michael Davie (editor) were recommended
The best books on The History of the Present, recommended by Timothy Garton Ash
Historian and journalist Timothy Garton Ash describes the “mongrel genre” between reportage and scholarship and says using the historian’s tools to analyse the present is a vital undertaking