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A Compass Error by Sybille Bedford
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z
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
$24.99 NZD
Category: Modern Classics
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.
Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education by Sybille Bedford
$34.99 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Reading Level: very good
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
$24.99 NZD
Category: Travel
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: A Memoir by Sybille Bedford
$48.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A friend of Aldous Huxley and of Elizabeth Jane Howard, whose own memoir Slipstream was hugely popular, novelist Sybille Bedford here tells of her life ? including World War I Berlin, the Cote D?Azur artist set of the 1920s and much more. ?Spellbinding . . . impressive . . . a testimony to the value and ...Show more
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