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A Compass Error by Sybille Bedford
$22.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Set in a two month period during the late 1920s, A Compass Error suggests that at some key juncture the book's main character, Flavia, made a mistake that somehow blew her life off course, perhaps into a new sexual orientation.
A Favourite of the Gods by Sybille Bedford
$22.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
One autumn in the late 1920s, Constanza boards a train in Italy en route to Brussels and a new marriage. With her is her young daughter Flavia. Through an odd incident Constanza makes a casual decision that changes both their lives.
A Legacy by Sybille Bedford
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
On the marriage of Julius von Felden and Melanie Merz, the fortunes of two families are somewhat fatally entwined. In A Legacy, Sybille Bedford depicts their vastly different worlds - the wealthy bourgeois life of the Merzes in Berlin and the aristocratic eccentricity of the von Felden dynasty in rural ...Show more
Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education by Sybille Bedford
$40.00 AUD
Category: Classics
This intensely remembered, partly autobiographical novel, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989, describes the childhood of Billi, a girl growing up in Europe between the wars. When her father dies, she swaps life in a run-down German château for an exhilarating existence with her beautiful ...Show more
Pleasures and Landscapes by Sybille Bedford
$22.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
In these eight evocative and unpredictable essays, Sybille Bedford chronicles her adventures through Europe over a thirty-year period. With her elegant prose and razor-sharp insight, Bedford takes us on a propulsive journey - dropping us into the passenger seat as she drives to meet Martha Gellhorn in C ...Show more
Quicksands by Sybille Bedford
$25.00 AUD
Category: Literary
- Her first new book in over 10 years. Bedford is back with what will surely (she says) be her last, and the moving culmination of a story that began in 1956 (when Legacy pubbed in the UK).- Acclaim, acclaim, and acclaim. Sybille Bedford is, simply put, one of the finest writers of her generation. None ...Show more
The Trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover by Sybille Bedford
$13.00 AUD
Category: Literary
The first full-scale literary trial in Britain's history - re-counted by the ever-charming and inimitable Sybille Bedford.
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