Author: Paula Byrne

A radical look at Jane Austen as youve never seen her as a lover of farce, comic theatre and juvenilia. The Genius of Jane Austen cel...

A TOP BOOK FOR 2024 IN: THE OBSERVER, INDEPENDENT, SUNDAY TIMES AND BOOKSELLER 'He understands only ...

Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously JILLY COOPER Picked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardi...

A terrifically engaging and original biography about one of Englands greatest novelists, and the glamorous, eccentric, debauched and ultimately tra...

Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously JILLY COOPER Picked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardi...

Who was the real Jane Austen? Overturning the traditional portrait of the author as conventional and genteel, bestseller Paula Byrne''s landmark bi...

Who was the real Jane Austen? Overturning the traditional portrait of the author as conventional and genteel, bestseller Paula Byrnes landmark biog...

The inspiration behind the powerful new film starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson and Emily Watson, this is the story of Dido Belle, whose adopt...

Hollywood, were reminded, is after all a through-the-looking glass world, and Byrne writes authoritatively about its illusions and obscene, glitter...

The remarkable life of the vivacious, clever and forgotten Kennedy sister, who charmed the English aristocracy and was almost erased...

Who was the real Jane Austen? Overturning the traditional portrait of the author as conventional and genteel, bestseller Paula Byrne's landmark bio...