“A Handful of Dust is one of Evelyn Waugh’s greats. Dark it is, my dears, and often the laughter is of the nervous or horrified variety. Waugh takes his title from T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” and, like Eliot’s poem, he seeks to illuminate a world in which civilisation is in the midst of a general collapse. Waugh’s poor hero Tony Last – decent, gentrified, staunchly traditional – finds himself fallen through the rabbit hole into a society completely devoid of morality, compassion,...”

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