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The Kaiser's Germany is the setting of Sybille Bedford's first and best-known novel, in which two families-one from solid, upholstered Jewish Berlin, the read more
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In this sequel to The Favourite of the Gods, seventeen-year-old Flavia, on her own in the south of France in read more
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Novelist Sybille Bedford watched courts closely?and with remarkableinsight?in England, Germany, Switzerland, France, and Austria.There, she found stories of human frailty and impulsive action,among both the defendants facing judgment in court an read more
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New edition of the biographical novel which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989. Co-incides with the publication of Bedford's memoirs in June and a four part Radio 4 serialisation.
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Synopsis
Beginning in 1956 with the publication of A Legacy, Sybille Bedford has narrated - in fiction and non-fiction - what has been by turns her sensuous, harrowing, altogether remarkable life. In this magnificent memoir, she moves from Berl read more
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An autobiographical novel based on Sybille Bedford's highly unusual childhood, moving from a south-German Schloss full of animals and expensive wine read more
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Against the background of the Kaiser's Germany - dotty, militaristic, doomed - and the Europe of which it forms a part, two families are joined in marriage. Out of this marri read more
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One autumn in the late 1920s, a beautiful woman called Constanza boards a train to Brussels and a new marriage. With her is her young daughter, who is going to read more
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Before returning to the Old World after World War II, Sybille Bedford resolved to see something more of the New. "I read more
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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Sybille Bedford's latest novel walks the borderline between autobiography and fiction read more
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Henry James's theme of the New World (na ve, upright, puritanical) confronting the Old (steeped in sophisticated and unscrupulous charm) is read more
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In this superb and distinctive memoir, Sybille Bedford takes us on an epic personal journey from World War I Berlin via the writers' and artist read more
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Sybille Bedford once wrote that "travel writing is inseparable from the writer's tastes, idiosyncrasies, and general temperament-- read more
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Before returning to the Old World after World War II, Sybille Bedford resolved to see something more of the New. "I had a gre read more
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