Waugh's home up for sale

The West Country home where novelist Evelyn Waugh wrote two books during the last 10 years of his life has been put up for sale.

The 14-bedroom property, Combe Florey House, near Taunton in Somerset, is being offered for sale for £2.25 million after his family decided they could no longer afford to keep running it. Waugh wrote Unconditional Surrender and his autobiography A Little Learning at the house and entertained a string of authors there including Graham Greene and John Betjeman as well as society beauty Lady Diana Cooper.