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Belle: The True Story Behind the Movie by Paula Byrne
23.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
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
43.00 NZD
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
35.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
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: Biography/Memoir
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
29.00 NZD
30.00 (3% off)
Category: Biography/Memoir
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
Mirror, Mirror by Paula Byrne
32.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Madou is the most beautiful woman in the world. Discovered in a Berlin cabaret in the roaring twenties, Madou is brought by a film director to the glamour of Los Angeles. There, she becomes a superstar of the silver screen. She takes important men and women into her bed. Hitler wants her to return to Ge ...Show more
Perdita : The life of Mary Robinson by Paula Byrne
25.00 NZD
Category: History
An 18th century celebrity in her time: In a debtors
The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne
25.00 NZD
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 paperback of the landmark biography, best-selling biographer Paula Byrne uses objects that conjure up ...Show more
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