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...