Tuesday, 2 September 2014

Pleasures and Landscapes by Sybille Bedford

Another book review to point you to in Shiny New Books! This one is by an author I'd love to know more about - Sybille Bedford. She seems so fascinating. I loved her novel A Favourite of the Gods, and so I took Daunt Books up on their offer of her collected travel writing, Pleasures and Landscapes (2003, although collected from mostly 1950s and 1960s articles).

I usually don't like travel writing, so I was nervous, but I really liked the way Bedford writes - and the unusual (often food-orientated) take she has on the world. If that's tickled your fancy, you can read the whole review on Shiny New Books...

Posted by StuckInABook at 21:30
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4 comments:

  1. Anbolyn3 September 2014 at 03:17

    I love food oriented books! And the cover of this is just so arresting - I will pop over to the full review.

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    1. StuckInABook8 September 2014 at 22:25

      If you like food oriented books you'll LOVE this!

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  2. Anonymous3 September 2014 at 10:11

    I loved this too - it was quite unexpected in many ways!

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    1. StuckInABook8 September 2014 at 22:26

      I don't even know what I expected, but it definitely wasn't this. :)

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