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Belle: The True Story Behind the Movie by Paula Byrne
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
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
$37.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'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: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
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: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: good
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
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: good-very good
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
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
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
Perdita : The Life of Mary Robinson by Paula Byrne
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
One of the most flamboyant women of the late-eighteenth century, Mary Robinson's life was marked by reversals of fortune. After being raised by a middle-class father, Mary was married, at age fourteen, to Thomas Robinson. His dissipated lifestyle landed the couple and their baby in debtors' prison, wher ...Show more
Perdita : The life of Mary Robinson by Paula Byrne
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An 18th century celebrity in her time: In a debtors
Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne
$45.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
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: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
'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
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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
The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
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 paperback of the landmark biography, best-selling biographer Paula Byrne uses objects that conjure up ...Show more
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