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Bedford Park

Bryan Appleyard

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English
Little Brown
12 August 2014
Set in 1912, Bedford Park is not just a London suburb: it is a crucible for enlightenment and modernity inhabited by people who wish to better themselves - and those who should know better. It is a singular place, architecturally sidestepping the modern whilst encouraging those with new ideas to take up residence. Into this mix sails Cal Kidd from America. In a coffee-house he makes the acquaintance of Binks, a man whose occupation in the City is vague but he seems to know everybody. And so Cal meets real-life characters like Maud Gonne and Frank Harris, while Ford Madox Ford, W.B. Yeats and Joseph Conrad appear also. Then Binks is gruesomely murdered, and after never really having to deal with anything in his life, Cal the observer now has to act.

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Imprint:   Little Brown
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 132mm,  Spine: 28mm
Weight:   280g
ISBN:   9781780228389
ISBN 10:   1780228384
Pages:   224
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Author Website:   www.bryanappleyard.com

Bryan Appleyard is a special feature writer and columnist for the SUNDAY TIMES. He has also written for VANITY FAIR, the NEW YORK TIMES and the SPECTATOR. He is a three-time Feature Writer of the Year award winner and twice has been commended in the BRITISH PRESS AWARDS. http://www.bryanappleyard.com/ https://twitter.com/BryanAppleyard

Reviews for Bedford Park

BEDFORD PARK is a witty and erudite historical novel, set mostly in London in the late-Victorian and Edwardian eras ... It is also a brilliantly lively, often very funny reconstruction of a lost world of artistic endeavour and social idealism through which Appleyard's American abroad wanders in a fruitless search for his true self - SUNDAY TIMES There are great writers and there are great arts writers - and then there's Bryan Appleyard. He's both Appleyard is scientifically literate, vigorous and intelligent ... essential reading - OBSERVER Bryan Appleyard is our foremost guide to understanding contemporary culture. This exploration of what it means to be human today grips the reader from the front page Bryan Appleyard is that rarest of birds, a journalist who can mine factual subjects for their poetic resonance right across the spectrum. He is our main man for this kind of writing One of the most interesting, curious, cultured and trenchant writers on this planet


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