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28 produkter
Mary Shelley
Häftad, 2018
172 kr
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‘The most dazzling biography of a female writer to have come my way for a decade…' – Financial Times‘To be savoured for its vivid and sympathetic recreation of the tragic life and brilliant times of the gifted Mary Shelley’ – Times Literary Supplement‘Brilliant and enthralling' – Independent On …
In Byron's Wake
Häftad, 2019
153 kr
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A Sunday Times Book of the YearShortlisted for The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize 'This magnificent, highly readable double biography...brings these two driven, complicated women vividly to life' The Financial Times'A gripping saga of a double-biography' Daily Mail'A masterful portrait' The …
Ottoline Morrell
Life on the Grand Scale
Häftad, 2024
165 kr
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‘A kind of blissography, teeming with bon mots’ Sunday Times A celebrated modern classic that has revolutionised our understanding of the Bloomsbury group and remains the definitive biography of the group’s gloriously eccentric patron, Lady Ottoline Morrell. Met with widespread acclaim and …
Mary Shelley
E-bok, 2018
121 kr
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‘The most dazzling biography of a female writer to have come my way for a decade…' – Financial Times ‘To be savoured for its vivid and sympathetic recreation of the tragic life and brilliant times of the gifted Mary Shelley’ – Times Literary Supplement ‘ Brilliant and enthralling' – Independent On …
I, Vera
The Many Lives of Vera Gedroits, a Radical Princess
Inbunden, 2026
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
304 kr
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'An electric biography' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Thrilling' MAIL ON SUNDAY'A masterclass in the possibilities of biography' FINANCIAL TIMES Vera Gedroits was a towering, sweet-faced lesbian princess, an ardent supporter of workers’ rights who regularly performed true medical miracles of surgery. On one …
Ottoline Morrell
Life on the Grand Scale
E-bok, 2024
102 kr
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‘A kind of blissography, teeming with bon mots’ Sunday Times A celebrated modern classic that has revolutionised our understanding of the Bloomsbury group and remains the definitive biography of the group’s gloriously eccentric patron, Lady Ottoline Morrell. Met with widespread acclaim and …
I Used to Live Here Once
The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys
Häftad, 2023
141 kr
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‘An absolute belter of a biography’ MARINA HYDE A Times Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2022 An LA Times Best Book of the Year 2022 An intimate, revealing and profoundly moving biography of Jean Rhys, acclaimed author of Wide Sargasso Sea. An obsessive and troubled genius, Jean Rhys is one of …
I Used to Live Here Once
The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys
Inbunden, 2022
310 kr
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‘An absolute belter of a biography’ MARINA HYDE A Times Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2022 An LA Times Best Book of the Year 2022 An intimate, revealing and profoundly moving biography of Jean Rhys, acclaimed author of Wide Sargasso Sea. An obsessive and troubled genius, Jean Rhys is one of …
I Used to Live Here Once
The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys
Ljudbok, 2022
240 kr
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‘An absolute belter of a biography’ MARINA HYDEA Times Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2022An LA Times Best Book of the Year 2022An intimate, revealing and profoundly moving biography of Jean Rhys, acclaimed author of Wide Sargasso Sea. An obsessive and troubled genius, Jean Rhys is one of …
I Used to Live Here Once
The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys
E-bok, 2022
88 kr
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‘An absolute belter of a biography’ MARINA HYDE A Times Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2022 An LA Times Best Book of the Year 2022 An intimate, revealing and profoundly moving biography of Jean Rhys, acclaimed author of Wide Sargasso Sea. An obsessive and troubled genius, Jean Rhys is one of …
Ottoline Morrell
Life on the Grand Scale
Ljudbok, 2024
265 kr
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‘A kind of blissography, teeming with bon mots’ Sunday TimesA celebrated modern classic that has revolutionised our understanding of the Bloomsbury group and remains the definitive biography of the group’s gloriously eccentric patron, Lady Ottoline Morrell. Met with widespread acclaim and …
I, Vera
The Many Lives of Vera Gedroits, a Radical Princess
E-bok, 2026
198 kr
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'An electric biography' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Thrilling' MAIL ON SUNDAY'A masterclass in the possibilities of biography' FINANCIAL TIMES Vera Gedroits was a towering, sweet-faced lesbian princess, an ardent supporter of workers’ rights who regularly performed true medical miracles of surgery. On one …
I, Vera
The Many Lives of Vera Gedroits, a Radical Princess
Häftad, 2027
165 kr
Kommande
'An electric biography' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Thrilling' MAIL ON SUNDAY'A masterclass in the possibilities of biography' FINANCIAL TIMES Vera Gedroits was a towering, sweet-faced lesbian princess, an ardent supporter of workers’ rights who regularly performed true medical miracles of surgery. On one …
Bugatti Queen
Häftad, 2005
131 kr
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THE BUGATTI QUEEN is the beautifully illustrated story of an indomitable and fascinating woman, a pioneer of motorsport who revelled in danger. Born in 1900 in a tiny French village, Hélène Delangle, aka Hellé Nice, became a dancer and a stripper before catching the eye of Ettore Bugatti. Seduced …
Pity of War
England and Germany, Bitter Friends, Beloved Foes
Häftad, 2017
279 kr
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In 1613, a beautiful Stuart princess married a handsome young German prince. This was a love match, but it was also an alliance that aimed to meld Europe's two great Protestant powers. Before Elizabeth and Frederick left London for the court in Heidelberg, they watched a performance of The Winter's …
I Used to Live Here Once
The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys
Inbunden, 2022
334 kr
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Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century. Memories of her Caribbean girlhood haunt the four short and piercingly brilliant novels that Rhys wrote during her extraordinary years as an exile in 1920s Paris and later in England, a body of fiction—above all, the …
I Used to Live Here Once
The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys
Häftad, 2024
140 kr
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Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century. Memories of her Caribbean girlhood haunt the four short and piercingly brilliant novels that Rhys wrote during her extraordinary years as an exile in 1920s Paris and later in England, a body of fiction—above all, the …
I, Vera
The Unexpected Life of a Russian Princess
Inbunden, 2027
326 kr
Kommande
Born in 1870, Vera Gedroits was the gender-free and rebellious child of a Russo-German mother and a Lithuanian prince. Vera was a radical from an early age: She rejected women’s clothes, used masculine pronouns, preferred billiards to embroidery, and was nicknamed, “The Whirlwind.” After working …
In Byron's Wake
E-bok, 2018
119 kr
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A Sunday Times Book of the Year Shortlisted for The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize 'This magnificent, highly readable double biography...brings these two driven, complicated women vividly to life' The Financial Times 'A gripping saga of a double-biography' Daily Mail 'A masterful portrait' The Times …
In My Father's House
Elegy for an Obsessive Love
E-bok, 2015
121 kr
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''Dear Thrumpton, how I miss you tonight,'' wrote George Seymour in 1944, when he was aged twenty-one. But the object of his affection was not a young woman, but a house -- ownership of which was then a distant dream. But he did eventually acquire Thrumpton, a beautiful country house in …
Bugatti Queen
E-bok, 2015
121 kr
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Born in 1900 to a soon-to-be-widowed postmaster''s wife in a small French village, Hélène Delangle''s background offered no suggestion of the extraordinary life she was to lead. The first step was to leave the country behind and head to the city -- in this case, a Paris in the grip of an …
Mary Shelley
Ljudbok, 2019
231 kr
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'';The most dazzling biography of a female writer to have come my way for a decade Financial Times '';To be savoured for its vivid and sympathetic recreation of the tragic life and brilliant times of the gifted Mary Shelley'' Times Literary Supplement ''; Brilliant and enthralling Independent On …
Chaplin's Girl
The Life and Loves of Virginia Cherrill
E-bok, 2009
119 kr
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In 1931, City Lightsintroduced Charlie Chaplin''s new female star to the world. The film - defiantly silent in the age of talkies - was an immediate and international hit. The actress who played the romantic lead had never been on screen or stage before. Chaplin''s film turned her into the most …
Noble Endeavours
The life of two countries, England and Germany, in many stories
E-bok, 2013
121 kr
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In 1613 a beautiful Stuart princess married a handsome young German prince. This was a love match, but it was also an alliance that aimed to weld together Europe''s two great Protestant powers. Before Elizabeth and Frederick left London for the court in Heidelberg, they watched a performance of The …
