The Fiorella Files, Episode 17: Evelyn Waugh, Ada Gobetti and Gabriel Weston

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The Fiorella Files, Episode 17: Evelyn Waugh, Ada Gobetti and Gabriel Weston

Partisan Diary – Ada Gobetti

This is every historian’s dream – the secret diary of a prominent member of Italy’s wartime resistance movement. Ada Gobetti risked torture and death every day in her struggle against the Nazi occupation of her country. This is her story, written in code between 1943 and 1945, and the story of Italy’s most courageous fighters.

Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh

The great Evelyn Waugh’s first published novel is as naughtily entertaining as ever, but be warned, it is also as shocking as it was in 1928. Only to be read with a large sense of humour.

Dirty Work – Gabriel Weston

An abortion doctor faces disciplinary action for nearly killing a patient during a botched procedure, but the doctor is the woman with whom we are supposed to sympathise. Take a look at an accidentally revealing novel about the inner conflicts facing doctors who willingly do society’s ‘dirty work.’

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