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Daunt Books Children's Short Story Competition 2013

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  A Legacy by Sybille Bedford

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  With delightful wit and razorsharp observation, Bedford depicts the marriage of Julius von Felden and Melanie Merz, a union on which the fortune of their two very different Prussian families depends. The menacing backdrop of pre-WW1 Germany works in compelling harmony with the tale of personal upheaval.

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  A Visit to Don Otavio by Sybille Bedford

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  A classic of travel writing, Sybille Bedford's account of the uncomfortable journeys, the desolate expanses of desert and rich, deep jungles of Mexico, is charming, poetic and colourful.

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  Jigsaw by Sybille Bedford

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  A partly autobiographical novel about a young girl growing up in Europe during the 1930s. The story of a wild and glamorous youth and a fraught mother and daughter relationship.

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  A Favourite of the Gods by Sybille Bedford

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  Following the success of the first Daunt Books publication, Saki's Improper Stories, we are delighted to publish this remarkable novel by the Booker-shortlisted author, Sybille Bedford. Set in Rome, London and the French Riviera in the 1920s, A Favourite of the Gods tells the story of three generations of women and the dramatic upheavals of the early twentieth century. The story begins with a beautiful New England heiress, a Roman prince and the confused catastrophe of their marriage. Their daughter, Constanza, has an idyllic childhood spent in crumbling Roman palaces, sun-baked olive groves and at sumptuous parties, until her life is changed forever by a clash of culture and an impulsive decision. You can now buy the second novel in the sequence, A Compass Error, exclusively at Daunt Books.

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  A Compass Error by Sybille Bedford

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  As the Second World War looms, Flavia is living in a small village in the South of France, studying for her Oxford entrance, swimming in the sea, and living with the confidence and relish of youth. In this a dramatic companion novel to A Favourite of the Gods, Flavia’s world is overturned when she becomes fascinated by Andrée – beautiful, sophisticated, yet manipulative – and is caught up in a devastating intrigue. A stylish and engrossing novel, published by Daunt Books.