'She drank a lot of wine and some of the great bottles she savoured are listed here. But her biggest appetite was for love, no doubt fuelled ... by the lack of it in her early childhood.'

Cressida Connolly reviews a new biography of Sybille Bedford.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/a-romantic-jigsaw

'Perhaps the real modern polymaths are the hidden ones who do not themselves grab the limelight but have the expertise to bring together different fields of knowledge: librarians, teachers, editors of literary journals…'

https://literaryreview.co.uk/masters-of-none