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A Compass Error by Sybille Bedford
22.99 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
22.99 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 Favourite of the Gods and a Compass Error by Sybille Bedford; Daniel Mendelsohn (Preface by)
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
A Favourite of the Gods is the story of two generations of a single family, united by a strong matrilineal bond but divided by the customs of their differing nationalities. Anna Howland, the matriarch and American heiress, born in the 1870s to a prominent, liberal New England family marries an Italian p ...Show more
A Legacy by Sybille Bedford
33.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
"A Legacy" is the tale of two very different families, the Merzes and the Feldens. The Jewish Merzes are longstanding members of Berlin's haute bourgeoisie who count a friend of Goethe among their distinguished ancestors. Not that this proud legacy means much of anything to them anymore. Secure in their ...Show more
Jigsaw by Sybille Bedford (Introduction by)
45.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Bedford's autobiographical novel paints a vivid picture of life in 1920s Europe between the wars. From her first novel, A Legacy--a book admired by novelists (among them Evelyn Waugh and Nancy Mitford), critics, and readers on both sides of the Atlantic--to her acclaim ...Show more
Pleasures and Landscapes by Sybille Bedford
24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
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
The Trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover by Sybille Bedford
12.99 AUD
Category: History
The first full-scale literary trial in Britain's history - re-counted by the ever-charming and inimitable Sybille Bedford.
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