In the summer of 1940, when she was twenty-nine years old, Sybille Bedford took on an unusual assignment: driving Thomas Mann’s poodle across the United States. Bedford had known Mann, nearly forty ...

Sybille Bedford, who died on February 17 aged 94, became one of Britain's most stylish and accomplished writers, despite having been born and brought up in Germany. Like the narrator of her novel ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Her curiosity about the law is part of a larger curiosity, an appetite for the human panoply. The story of The ...

Drinking wine aged 10, endless parties and so many women ... a fine novelist who preferred good times to writing The novelist Sybille Bedford is the patron saint of writers who hate writing. She ...

The centenary of Sybille Bedford's birth falls on 16 March. She died in 2006 at the age of 94. She may not be a household name, and is often categorised as "a writer's writer", but if you have never ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Sybille Bedford is not a tabloid name. Nor even a name to toss about lightly at Hampstead dinner parties. I have never heard her ...

Thirty years ago, waiting to take my seat at a dinner at the pen Club in Chelsea, London, I caught sight of an elderly woman quietly installing herself a place or two down on the other side of the ...

A celebration of the life of Sybille Bedford at the Institut Français. Obituary: An author who searched for truth among social elites and courtroom dramas in oblique, suggestive novels that gained a ...

Sybille von Schoenebeck, writer: born Charlottenburg, Germany 16 March 1911; OBE 1981; FRSL 1964; CLit 1994; married 1935 Walter Bedford; died London 17 February 2006. Sybille Bedford belonged to that ...