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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
Blonde Venus by Paula Byrne
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Hollywood, we're reminded, is after all a through-the-looking glass world, and Byrne writes authoritatively about its illusions and obscene, glittering excess ... Compelling' Daily Mail 'Both eye-poppingly fun and thought-provoking' The Times Madou is the most beautiful woman in the world. Discovere ...Show more
Genius of Jane Austen: Her Love of Theatre and Why She is a Hit in Hollywood by Paula Byrne
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A radical look at Jane Austen as you've never seen her - as a lover of farce, comic theatre and juvenilia. Jane's World celebrates Britain's favourite novelist 200 years after her death and explores why her books make such awesome movies, time after time. Jane Austen loved the theatre. She learned much ...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
Look to Your Wife by Paula Byrne
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A debut novel by a bestselling non-fiction author, this is a witty, wholly entrancing story of the pleasures, pains and obsessions of contemporary life.Lisa Blaize - teacher, and would-be fashion writer, mother and second wife - feels out of place when her high-flying husband becomes the headmaster of a ...Show more
Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne
45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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
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 Genius of Jane Austen by Paula Byrne
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A radical look at Jane Austen As you've never seen her - as a lover of farce, comic theatre and juvenilia. The Genius of Jane Austen celebrates Britain's favourite novelist 200 years after her death and explores why her books make such awesome movies, time after time. Jane Austen loved the theatre. She ...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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