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A Compass Error by Sybille Bedford
$24.99 NZD
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 Legacy by Sybille Bedford
$29.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | 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
A Visit to Don Otavio: A Mexican Odyssey by Sybille Bedford
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Before returning to the Old World after World War II, Sybille Bedford resolved to see something more of the New. I had a great longing to move, she said, to hear another language, eat new food, to be in a country with a long nasty history in the past and as little present history as possible. And so she ...Show more
Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education by Sybille Bedford
$29.95 NZD
Category: No Category | 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
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