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Belle: The True Story Behind the Movie by Paula Byrne
22.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | 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
Kick: The True Story of JFK's Forgotten Sister and the Heir to Chatsworth by Paula Byrne
34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | 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
25.00 NZD
Category: History | 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
29.99 NZD
33.99 (11% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | 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
34.99 NZD
37.95 (7% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | 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
26.00 NZD
29.95 (13% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
An 18th century celebrity in her time: In a debtors
The Genius of Jane Austen by Paula Byrne
25.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
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
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
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. Claire Tomalin's biography of Jane Austen was published in 1997 and, although it contained little new researc ...Show more
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