En Alemania, a comienzos del siglo xx, en un momento crucial de la historia europea, dos familias están relacionadas por el matrimonio: los Von Felden, aristócratas católicos, terratenientes del sur de...

'One of Britain's most stylish and accomplished writers.' -- Telegraph One autumn in the late nineteen-twenties for no particular reason at all, as it would seem, we began to live in France. Constanza...

'One of Britain's most stylish and accomplished writers.' -- TelegraphWhen Penguin released a new, unexpurgated edition of D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover in 1960 they were charged with the crime...

'A powerful and merciless book – a classic coming-of-age novel' -- Hilary Mantel 'Wide windows, not yet shuttered at that hour, opened from the circular white-washed room on slopes of olives and the...

'Bedford's ability to recreate landscape is matched only by her appetite for mouth-watering descriptions of exotic food . . . She cannot write a dull page.' -- Financial Times 'The Naples boat was on...

'Going to law courts is a good education for a novelist. It provides you with the most extravagant material, and it teaches the near impossibility of reaching the truth.' Sybille Bedford, Paris Review...

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...

Mexico, through the eyes of Sybille Bedford, is a country of passion and paradox: arid desert and shrieking jungle, harsh sun and deep shadow, violence and sentimentality. In her frank descriptions of...

En Allemagne au tournant du XXe siècle, à une période charnière de l’histoire où l’Europe est en germe, deux univers se trouvent liés par un mariage : la famille des von Felden, aristocrates catholiques...