Jane Dunn

A dual portrait of England's Queen Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots documents their complex relationship, different characteristics, and ideals, and discusses their reigns, power struggle, and influence on British history.

Cousins, Rivals, Queens

Elizabeth and Mary

‘It’s not a fair world I’m afraid. Beauty or fortune carries the day. You have the beauty and I the fortune, so there’s every chance we’ll succeed’
In Regency England, marriage is everything. For young widow Sybella Lovatt, the time has come to find a suitable husband for her sister and ward Lucie. Male suitors are scarce near their Wiltshire estate, so the sisters resolve to head to London in time for the Season to begin.

Once ensconced at the Mayfair home of Lady Godley, Lucie’s godmother, the whirl of balls, parties and promenades can begin. But the job of finding a husband is fraught with rules and tradition. Jostling for attention are the two lords – the charming and irresistible Freddie Lynwood and the preternaturally handsome Valentine Ravenell, their enigmatic neighbour from Shotten Hall, Mr Brabazon, and the dangerous libertine Lord Rockliffe, with whom the brooding Brabazon is locked in deadly rivalry.

Against the backdrop of glamorous Regency England, Sybella must settle Lucie’s future, protect her own reputation, and resist the disreputable rakes determined to seduce the beautiful widow. As the Season ends, will the sisters have found the rarest of things – a suitable marriage with a love story to match?

Sunday Times bestselling author Jane Dunn brings the Regency period irresistibly to life in a page-turning novel packed with surprising revelations, which all comes wittily, gloriously, good in the end.

The Marriage Season

The Du Mauriers -- three beautiful, successful and rebellious sisters. Much has been written about Daphne but here the hidden lives of the sisters are revealed in a riveting group biography.

The Hidden Lives of Piffy, Bird and Bing

Daphne Du Maurier and Her Sisters

This is the story of a deep and close relationship between two sisters - Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. The influence they exerted over each others lives, their competitiveness, the fierce love they had for each other and also their intense rivalry is explored here with subtlety and compassion. The thoughts, motives and actions of these two remarkably artistic women who jointly created the Bloomsbury Group is revealed with all its intricacies in this moving biography.

A Very Close Conspiracy

Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell

Good things come to those who bake! From bestselling author Jane Dunn, the blogger and baker behind Jane's Patisserie, Celebrate! is packed with simple bakes, mouth-watering flavours and moreish treats that will make every day special. Whether you're looking for a fancy funfetti sponge cake for a Birthday, a chunky Mini Egg Cookie for Easter, or a gooey S'more Muffin to add a little sparkle to your Sunday, this book has everything you need to treat yourself and celebrate everyday. Includes 70 new and exclusive recipes requested by her followers, a photograph for every recipe, popular classics from her blog - Mini Egg NYC Cookies, Chocolate Orange Cupcakes, Kinder Bueno Cheesecake and more!

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A Life of Mary Shelley

Moon in Eclipse

Dorothy Osborne and Sir William Temple, a Love Story in the Age of Revolution

Read My Heart

The fastest selling baking book of all time, from social media sensation Jane's Patisserie 'This will be the most-loved baking book in your stash!' - Zoë Sugg Life is what you bake it - so bake it sweet! Discover how to make life sweet with 100 delicious bakes, cakes and treats from baking blogger, Jane. Jane's recipes are loved for being easy, customisable, and packed with your favourite flavours. Covering everything from gooey cookies and celebration cakes with a dreamy drip finish, to fluffy cupcakes and creamy no-bake cheesecakes, Jane' Patisserie is easy baking for everyone. Whether you're looking for a salted caramel fix, or a spicy biscoff bake, this book has everything you need to create iconic bakes and become a star baker. Includes new and exclusive recipes requested by her followers and the most popular classics from her blog - NYC Cookies, No-Bake Biscoff Cheesecake, Salted Caramel Drip Cake and more!

Deliciously customisable cakes, bakes and treats. THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Jane’s Patisserie

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Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf

When Sir William Temple (1628–99) and Dorothy Osborne (1627–95) began their passionate love affair, civil war was raging in Britain, and their families—parliamentarians and royalists, respectively—did everything to keep them apart. Yet the couple went on to enjoy a marriage and a sophisticated partnership unique in its times. Surviving the political chaos of the era, the Black Plague, the Great Fire of London, and the deaths of all their nine children, William and Dorothy made a life together for more than forty years. Drawing upon extensive research and the Temples’ own extraordinary writings—including Dorothy’s dazzling letters, hailed by Virginia Woolf as one of the glories of English literature—Jane Dunn gives us an utterly captivating dual biography, the first to examine Dorothy’s life as an intellectual equal to her diplomat husband. While she has been known to posterity as the very symbol of upper-class seventeenth-century domestic English life, Dunn makes clear that Dorothy was a woman of great complexity, of passion and brilliance, noteworthy far beyond her role as a wife and mother. The remarkable story of William and Dorothy’s life together—illuminated here by the author’s insight and her vivid sense of place and time—offers a rare glimpse into the heart and spirit of one of the most turbulent and intriguing eras in British history.

Their enemies branded them both murderesses, whores and daughters of the devil. Elizabeth’s supporters anointed her a hero and savior, while Mary’s faithful invested her as a saint and martyr. Reigning side by side, but yet never meeting face-to-face, these queens were inexorably linked in a tumultuous relationship that, until now, has never fully been revealed and explored. Elizabeth & Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens is master biographer Jane Dunn’s richly textured portrait of two incredible women. A story of a relationship punctuated by reversals of fortune; murder mysteries; sexual intrigue; reckless behavior, heated battles and cold war, Elizabeth & Mary is staged against a past as dark and dangerous as it was vibrantly alive. Dunn shows the indissoluble bond between the queens was forged by two opposing forces; their shared inheritance and rivalry for Elizabeth’s crown set against their natural solidarity as ruling females in an overwhelmingly masculine world. She delves behind Elizabeth’s reputation as steely virgin queen, using her celibacy as a weapon, valuing reason and duty above all. She looks at Mary as celebrity queen, femme fatale and flawed heroine, a woman who capped the theatre of her death in a brilliant cloak of redemption. And she corrects many misconceptions about her subjects, revealing Mary as a more serious contender for power than had been previously thought, and Elizabeth as far more vulnerable than her formidable reputation. Intelligent and completely riveting, this beautifully produced and lavishly illustrated book masterfully juxtaposes the histories of two remarkable women, culminating in tragedy, as Elizabeth the victor—hesitantly—signed her cousin’s death warrant.

Sir William Temple (1628-99), the son of a staunch Parliamentarian, was just 20 when he first met Dorothy Osborne (1627-96), the daughter of committed Royalists. Smitten with one another, Temple and Osborne launched a clandestine courtship, for six long and at times desperate years, before they were finally able to marry. This was an age of tremendous social and political change in Britain. Civil war had wreaked havoc across the kingdom; Charles I had been executed; the monarchy had been restored; and finally, a second revolution had seen James II peacefully ousted in favour of his Protestant daughter, Mary, and her Dutch husband, William of Orange. In Read My Heart, Jane Dunn chronicles this love story--and the tumultuous times in which both lovers played such important roles. William and Dorothy were highly perceptive and intelligent, and both were celebrated for their writing. William was a humane diplomat and an essayist, and Dorothy was a renowned letter writer whose 77 surviving missives to her lover brilliantly anatomize the couple's lives and passion. This remarkable pair was at the social and political centre of life as contemporaries of Samuel Pepys, employers of Jonathan Swift and confidants of William of Orange. They inspired Queen Mary II's marriage, changing the future of the royal family and of Great Britain itself. Combining the Temples' writing with her own extensive research, Jane Dunn brings to life a turbulent period of English history in all its exotic detail, from Dorothy's perceptive wit to descriptions of plague, war, Machiavellian intrigue and the Great Fire of London. Lovers of history will find in Read My Heart a fascinating account of an age of revolution through the eyes of those who experienced it, while fans of Sandra Gulland and Philippa Gregory will delight in this true love story that rivals the most romantic of the age.

A Love Story in England's Age of Revolution

From the bestselling author of ‘Elizabeth and Mary’, the remarkable love story of Dorothy Osborne and Sir William Temple, set against the turbulence and romance of 17th-century England. [Note that the family trees contained in this ebook are best viewed on a tablet.]

Read My Heart: Dorothy Osborne and Sir William Temple, A Love Story in the Age of Revolution (Text Only)

Deliciously Customizable Cakes, Bakes, and Treats

Jane's Patisserie

THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER from baking sensation Jane Dunn Good things come to those who bake! From bestselling author Jane Dunn, the blogger and baker behind Jane's Patisserie, Celebrate! is packed with simple bakes, mouth-watering flavours and iconic treats that will make every day special. Whether you're looking for a fancy funfetti sponge cake for a Birthday, a chunky Mini Egg Cookie for Easter, or a gooey S'more Muffin to add a little sparkle to your Sunday, this book has everything you need to treat yourself and celebrate every day. Includes 70 new and exclusive recipes requested by her followers, a photograph for every recipe, popular classics from her blog - Mini Egg NYC Cookies, Chocolate Orange Cupcakes, Kinder Bueno Cheesecake and more!

Bake every day special. THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Jane’s Patisserie Celebrate!

Sir William Temple (1628–99), the son of a staunch Parliamentarian, was just 20 when he first met Dorothy Osborne (1627–96), the daughter of committed Royalists. Smitten with one another, Temple and Osborne launched a clandestine courtship, for six long and at times desperate years, before they were finally able to marry. This was an age of tremendous social and political change in Britain. Civil war had wreaked havoc across the kingdom; Charles I had been executed; the monarchy had been restored; and finally, a second revolution had seen James II peacefully ousted in favour of his Protestant daughter, Mary, and her Dutch husband, William of Orange. In Read My Heart, Jane Dunn chronicles this love story—and the tumultuous times in which both lovers played such important roles. William and Dorothy were highly perceptive and intelligent, and both were celebrated for their writing. William was a humane diplomat and an essayist, and Dorothy was a renowned letter writer whose 77 surviving missives to her lover brilliantly anatomize the couple’s lives and passion. This remarkable pair was at the social and political centre of life as contemporaries of Samuel Pepys, employers of Jonathan Swift and confidants of William of Orange. They inspired Queen Mary II’s marriage, changing the future of the royal family and of Great Britain itself. Combining the Temples’ writing with her own extensive research, Jane Dunn brings to life a turbulent period of English history in all its exotic detail, from Dorothy’s perceptive wit to descriptions of plague, war, Machiavellian intrigue and the Great Fire of London. Lovers of history will find in Read My Heart a fascinating account of an age of revolution through the eyes of those who experienced it, while fans of Sandra Gulland and Philippa Gregory will delight in this true love story that rivals the most romantic of the age.

Dorothy Osborne & Sir William Temple: A Love Story in the Age of Revolution

This biography examines the special relationship between the sisters, Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf. The author has also written "Moon in Eclipse: A Life of Mary Shelley".

Moon in eclipse

Dos hermanas, figuras señeras en su arte respectivo durante las primeras décadas del siglo XX, constituyeron el núcleo del grupo de escritores y artistas conocido bajo el nombre de Bloomsbury.

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