Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh games But a world where magic

But a world where magic can be drawn from metals

the painter Christiane Ritter leaves her comfortable home for a year with her husband on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen

and disturbing

Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality

from becoming a part of John Waters' legendary acting troupe to becoming a mother

Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh games But a world where magicEvelyn Waugh's acidly funny novel of the Roaring Twenties, with an introduction by Simon JamesIn the years following the First World War a new generation emerges, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of twenties' Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their inventive minds and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade whether promiscuity, dancing, cocktail parties or sports