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Belle: The True Story Behind the Movie by Paula Byrne
$20.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The extraordinary true story behind the film Belle. Beautiful, wealthy and sophisticated, Dido Belle appears, in her famous portrait alongside her 'sister' and companion Lady Elizabeth Murray, a vision of eighteenth-century aristocratic virtue. But Dido Belle was no normal eighteenth century Lady, and t ...Show more
Hardy Women - Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses by Paula Byrne
$38.00 AUD
Category: Literary
'He understands only the women he invents - the others not at all' Thomas Hardy is one of the most beloved and most-read British authors. His influence on literature and the minds of his readers is singular. But how is it that the novelist who created some of the most memorable and modern female charac ...Show more
Kick: The True Story of JFK's Forgotten Sister and the Heir to Chatsworth by Paula Byrne
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever – and forgotten – Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. Kick was Joe Kennedy's favourite child and Jack's favourite sister. Spirited, vivacious and quick-witted, her charm was legendary and with her ...Show more
Kick - The True Story of Kick Kennedy, JFK's Forgotten Sister and the Heir to Chatsworth by Paula Byrne
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical
The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever - and forgotten - Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased from her family history. When Kathleen Kennedy sailed to England after her father had been appointed Ambassador to Great Britain in 1938, her wit, aloofness and sexual ...Show more
Mad World - Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead by Paula Byrne
$25.00 AUD
Category: General
A terrifically engaging and original biography about one of England's greatest novelists, and the glamorous, eccentric, debauched and ultimately tragic family that provided him with the most significant friendships of his life and inspired his masterpiece, 'Brideshead Revisited'. Evelyn Waugh was alread ...Show more
Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead by Paula Byrne
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Evelyn Waugh was already famous when "Brideshead Revisited" was published in 1945. The chronicle of a household, a family, and a journey of religious faith--an elegy for a vanishing world--Waugh's masterwork was a tribute and testimony to a family he had fallen in love with a decade earlier. The Lygons ...Show more
Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne
$45.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Who was the real Jane Austen? Overturning the traditional portrait of the author as conventional and genteel, bestseller Paula Byrne's landmark biography reveals the real woman behind the books. In this new biography, best-selling author Paula Byrne (bestselling author of Perdita, Mad World) explores th ...Show more
The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym by Paula Byrne
$55.00 AUD
Category: Literary
'Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously' JILLY COOPER Picked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardian, The Times and the Observer A Radio 4 Book of the Week, April 2020 She was Pym to friends. Miss Pym in her diaries. Sandra in seduction mode. Pymska at her most sophisticated. ...Show more
The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym by Paula Byrne
$23.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Barbara Pym became beloved as one of the wittiest novelists of the late twentieth century, revealing the inner workings of domestic life so brilliantly that her friend Philip Larkin announced her the era's own Jane Austen. But who was Barbara Pym and why was the life of this English writer - one of the ...Show more
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