Jane Dunn

A moving and important book on the relationship between two remarkable sisters who jointly created the Bloomsbury GroupAn outstanding work... one of the best books on Virginia Woolf to dateLiterary ReviewDunns unlayering of this complex relationship is subtle and far-reachingSunday TimesAn investigation into the dynamics of friendship and sibling rivalry, maternal solicitude and mutual needNew York TimesA revealing pleasureIndependentThis is the story of a deep and close relationship between two sisters - the writer Virginia Woolf and artist Vanessa Bell. Their influence over each others lives, their competitiveness, the fierce love they had for each other and total commitment to their work is laid out with subtlety and compassion. The thoughts, motives and actions of these two remarkable women at the heart of the Bloomsbury Group is revealed in all its intricacies in this exploration of their intertwined lives.

THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER from baking sensation Jane DunnGood 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.

Cake it easy No 1 bestseller Jane Dunn has always made it her goal to share deliciously simple recipes that take the stress out of baking With exclusive fan requests shorter methods and easy to use sections covering recipes that are No bake 30 minutes or Less 5 Ingredients Small batch Crowd pleasers and more this is Jane s easiest book yet Make a batch of zingy Lemon Meringue NYC Cookies enjoy moreish Feta and Garlic Muffins warm from the oven whip up some gooey Hazelnut Chocolate brownies impress your friends with an easy show stopping Bourbon Biscuit Cheesecake or feed your family with no faff Frying Pan Pizzas With air fryer and slow cooker notes and Jane s expert tips and tricks this book is full of easy favourites that you ll come back to again and again

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 Zoe Sugg The Mary Berry of the Instagram age The TimesLife 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

All Jane s best recipes for foolproof bakes cakes and treats Whether you re preparing for a bake sale celebrating a birthday or simply indulging on a rainy Sunday with help from Jane you can master the baking essentials to get perfectly crispy pastries dreamy fluffy sponges and deliciously gooey cookies every time Indulge in Jane s cult classics with Biscoff Drip Cake or Triple Chocolate NYC Cookies get stuck into retro bakes perfect for afternoon tea with Battenberg and Bourbon Biscuits enjoy a sweet dessert with Treacle Sponge or Self Saucing Chocolate Pudding or satisfy your savoury cravings with a bakery style Sausage Roll and moreish Caprese Pastries With a troubleshooting table to help you fix common problems and tips on how to adapt every recipe this essential baking book has you covered from beginner to star baker

Celebrated novelist Daphne Du Maurier and her sisters, eclipsed by her fame, are revealed in all their surprising complexity in this riveting new biography.The middle sister in a famous artistic dynasty, Daphne du Maurier is one of the master storytellers of our time, author of Rebecca, Jamaica Inn and My Cousin Rachel, and short stories, Dont Look Now and the terrifying The Birds among many. Her stories were made memorable by the iconic films they inspired, three of them classic Hitchcock chillers. But it was her sisters, writer Angela and artist Jeanne,who found the courage to defy the conventions that hampered Daphnes emotional life.In this group biography they are considered side by side, as they were in life, three sisters who grew up during the 20th century in the glamorous hothouse of a theatrical family dominated by a charismatic and powerful father. This family dynamic reveals the hidden lives of Piffy, Bird & Bing, full of social non-conformity, love, rivalry and compulsive make-believe, their lives as psychologically complex as a Daphne du Maurier novel.

THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER from baking sensation Jane DunnGood things come to those who bake!From bestselling author Jane Dunn, the blogger and baker behind Janes Patisserie, Celebrate! is packed with simple bakes, mouth-watering flavours and iconic treats that will make every day special.Whether youre looking for a fancy funfetti sponge cake for a Birthday, a chunky Mini Egg Cookie for Easter, or a gooey Smore 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!

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - perfect for festive bakes and treatsAll Janes best recipes for foolproof bakes, cakes and treats!Whether youre preparing for a bake sale, celebrating a birthday, or simply indulging on a rainy Sunday, with help from Jane, you can master the baking essentials to get perfectly crispy pastries, dreamy fluffy sponges and deliciously gooey cookies every time.Indulge in Janes cult classics with Biscoff Drip Cake or Triple Chocolate NYC Cookies, get stuck into retro bakes perfect for afternoon tea withBattenberg and Bourbon Biscuits, enjoy a sweet dessert with Treacle Sponge or Self-Saucing Chocolate Pudding, or satisfy your savoury cravings with a bakery-style Sausage Roll and moreish Caprese Pastries. With a troubleshooting table to help you fix common problems and tips on how to adapt every recipe, this essential baking book has you covered from beginner to star baker!Sunday Times Bestseller August 2025

Antonia White is best known for her masterpiece Frost in May, for having come back from Bedlam and madness, and for the public feud between her daughters over the editing of her diaries. This is the first biography to tell the complete story of a life courageously lived against most difficult odds: Oh I DID want to be happy as a woman...But Im a monster and must accept being one. Not all writers are monsters. But my kind is.With full access to Whites unexpurgated diaries, the analysis journals, the asylum records and her voluminous correspondence, Jane Dunn has explored the woman and the writer, the persecutor and the victim. This biography charts Antonia Whites ambivalence about her parents; her three marriages, two of them unconsummated; her lovers; her friendships with poets and writers like Cyril Connolly, Dylan Thomas and Bertrand Russell; her secret war work; her bizarre thraldom to dominating women; her harrowing relationship with her two daughters; and her endurance of the ravages of manic depression, experienced without the benefits of modern day therapy.This is the story of a woman who - two generations too soon - attempted to live the modern female life of single parent and working mother, but longed for the artistic and intellectual stage. Antonia White wrestled throughout with the large questions of faith, the attractions and repulsions of Catholicism, the problems of being a woman and an artist. And over it all lowered the threat of madness. This book reveals her as a woman unafraid of extreme experience and honest enough to accept the consequences: self-obsessed, funny, fascinating and tragic - and ultimately heroic.

This is the first biography of the fateful relationship between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. It was the defining relationship of their lives, and marked the intersection of the great Tudor and Stuart dynasties, a landmark event in British history. Distinguished biographer Jane Dunn reveals an extraordinary story of two queens ruling in one isle, both embodying opposing qualities of character, ideals of womanliness and of divinely ordained kingship. Theirs is a drama of sex and power, recklessness, ambition and political intrigue, with a rivalry that could only be resolved by death. As regent queens in an overwhelmingly masculine world, they were deplored for their femininity, compared unfavourably with each other, and courted by the same men. By placing this dynamic and ever-changing relationship at the centre of the book, Dunn throws new light and meaning on the complexity of their natures. She reveals an Elizabeth revolutionary in her insistence on ruling alone, while Mary is not the romantic victim of history, but a courageous adventurer with a reckless heart. Vengeful against her enemies and the more ruthless of the two, she was untroubled by plotting Elizabeths murder. Elizabeth, however, was in anguish at having to sanction Marys death warrant for treason. Working almost exclusively from contemporary letters and writings, she lets them speak to us across more than four hundred years, their voices and responses surprisingly familiar to our own, their characters vivid, by turns touching and terrible.

THE THIRD NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER from Jane DunnSimple cakes and delicious bakes for every dayBestselling author Jane Dunn shows you how easy it is to bake every day with her simple treats, foolproof cakes, and comforting savoury bakes.Covering all the classics from chunky cookies and fluffy cupcakes, deliciously flaky pastry and cheesy breads, to easy no-bake cheesecakes and quick one-tray feasts. This book has everything you need for effortless mouth-watering winners every day.With 70 new and exclusive fan-requested recipes, 30 classic favourites, tips on freezing and how to make Janes staple bakes free-from, JanesPatisserie:Everyday is packed with big flavours that everyone will love. Including:Carrot Cake BlondiesChocolate Orange Fudge CakeChocolate Cheesecake MuffinsIrish Coffee CupcakesMini Biscoff CheesecakesMarmite & Cheese BunsBacon TurnoversLoaded Potato SkinsUltimate Mac & CheeseAnd more!Number 1 Sunday Times Bestseller, August 2023

THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERCake it easy! No.1 bestseller Jane Dunn has always made it her goal to share deliciously simple recipes that take the stress out of baking.With exclusive fan requests, shorter methods and easy-to-use sections covering recipes that are No bake, 30 minutes or Less, 5 Ingredients, Small batch, Crowd-pleasers and more, this is Janes easiest book yet.Make a batch of zingy Lemon Meringue NYC Cookies, enjoy moreish Feta and Garlic Muffins warm from the oven, whip up some gooey Hazelnut Chocolate brownies, impress your friends with an easy show-stopping Bourbon Biscuit Cheesecakeor feed your family with no-faff Frying Pan Pizzas.With air fryer and slow cooker notes and Janes expert tips and tricks, this book is full of easy favourites that youll come back to again and again.No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller August 2024

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.] Sir William Temple (1628-99), handsome and intelligent, son of a staunch Parliamentarian, become a celebrated essayist and diplomat in Charles IIs time. Captivating him from their first meeting, when he was just 20, Dorothy Osborne (1627-1696) was an intellectual romantic from a family of committed Royalists. After a long and at times desperate courtship, in which Dorothy rejected numerous other suitors (including Henry Cromwell, son of the Lord Protector), they married in 1654. Their union had been fiercely opposed by both their families, but they went on to build a passionate marriage that brought personal tragedies and public triumphs and betrayals during the huge political upheavals of the age. Their relationship was intellectually collaborative; both were gifted writers, and possessed of strikingly modern sensibilities. Seventy-seven letters written by Dorothy to William during their long clandestine courtship survive, masterpieces of wit and style, with a conversational intimacy that transports the reader to her side. Both were at the social and political centre of life: confidants of William of Orange and Mary, who were instrumental in promoting their marriage, contemporaries of Pepys, and employers of Jonathan Swift. Drawing upon extensive research and the Temples own extraordinary writings, Jane Dunn brings to life their remarkable story, offering a rare perspective on one of the most turbulent periods of British history. In illuminating the personal lives, politics and passions of two endearing and independent-minded people, she brilliantly captures not only the story of a marriage, but the spirit of a dawning modern age.

The fastest selling baking book of all time, from social media sensation Janes PatisserieThis will be the most-loved baking book in your stash! - Zoe SuggThe Mary Berry of the Instagram age - The TimesLife 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.Janes 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 youre 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!Jane Dunne, Number 1 Sunday Times bestseller, August 2024

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.