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Evelyn Waugh was already famous when Brideshead Revisited was published in 1945. Written at the height of the war, the novel was, he admitted, of no "immediate propaganda value." Instead, it was the story of a household, a family and a journey of religious faith—an elegy for a vanishing world and a testimony to a family he had fallen in love with a decade earlier.The Lygons of Madresfield were every bit as glamourous, eccentric and compelling ...

A TOP BOOK FOR 2024 IN: THE OBSERVER, INDEPENDENT, SUNDAY TIMES AND BOOKSELLER'He understands only the women he invents - the others not at all

A TOP BOOK FOR 2024 IN: THE OBSERVER, INDEPENDENT, SUNDAY TIMES AND BOOKSELLER'He understands only the women he invents - the others not at all

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 2021

A brilliant, intimate biography of English writer Barbara Pym.

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.

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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.

A headmaster's wife finds relocation to the country boring and so immerses herself in a Twitter addiction, but is soon in over her head with stalkers and scandals in this story of the pleasures, pains and obsessions of contemporary life.

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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures

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.

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This sourcebook introduces not only Jane Austen's text, but also the literary and historical contexts and the many different critical readings that it has generated, from the time of its publication to the twenty-first century.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures

In this biography of Jane Austen, Byrne explores the forces that shaped the interior life of Britain's most beloved novelist. These include her father's religious faith, her mother's aristocratic pedigree, her eldest brother's adoption, her other brothers' military experiences, her relatives in the East and West Indies and more. Interest in Austen is high, as her face will appear on the $10 note, Byrne also made a BBC2 film about the author wh...

The sensational tale of the first mixed-race girl introduced to high-society England and raised as a lady...The illegitimate daughter of a captain in the Royal Navy and an enslaved African woman, Dido Belle was raised by her great-uncle, the Earl of Mansfield, one of the most powerful men of the time and a leading opponent of slavery. When the portrait he commissioned of his two wards, Dido and her white cousin, Elizabeth, was unveiled, eighte...

Emma is widely regarded as Jane Austen's most perfectly constructed novel. At once a comedy of misunderstanding, a razor-sharp analysis of the English class-system, a classic tale of moral growth, and a romance that combines sense with sensibility, it has appealed to readers of every generation and critics of every disposition.This sourcebook introduces readers not only to Jane Austen's text, but also to the literary and historical contexts wi...

The critically acclaimed biography of beloved writer Jane Austen, as never seen before. Paula Byrne offers us the most intimate and revealing portrait yet of this distinguished and beloved novelist.

Reveals the truth about the infamous Jane Austen through dedicating each chapter to an object that conjures up a pivotal moment in her life. What can a vellum notebook, a topaz cross and a bathing machine tell us about the beloved novelist? Was she really a spinster confining her novels to the small canvas of village life? Or did she choose to remain unmarried and live life as a professional writer?