A writer of great wit and style. I ve read her books to ragged shreds. Kate Fenton, "Daily Telegraph" A Delightful Tangle of Affairs. The Earl of Spenborough had always been noted for his eccentricity. Leaving a widow younger than his own daughter Serena was one thing, but leaving his fortune to the[...]
Cinematographic with escapes, kidnapping, galloping sword play, and a breathless elopement. "The Times Literary Supplement" The most daring, dashing hero of all Mad Nicholas to his friends, Scourge of Spain to his enemies, Sir Nicholas Beauvallet is one of Queen Elizabeth s most dashing buccaneers [...]
Abigail Wendover, on the shelf at 28, is kept busy when her niece falls head over heels in love with a handsome fortune hunter and Abbie is forced into a confrontation with his scandalous uncle. Miles Calvery is the black sheep of his family?enormously rich from a long sojourn in India, disconcertin[...]
Georgette Heyer is unbeatable. "Sunday Telegraph" "A young and lovely runaway alone on the road to London" Miss Charity Steane is running away from the drudgery of her aunt s household to find her grandfather. Not expecting her visit, the old gentleman is not in London but is away in the country. "A[...]
"A five-star job of sheerly delightful romance writing." ?"Chicago Sunday Tribune" "Can the wrong bride become the perfect wife?" Adam Deveril, the new Viscount Lynton, is madly in love with the beautiful Julia Oversley. But he has returned from the Peninsular War to find his family on the brink of [...]
"A writer of great wit and style. I've read her books to ragged shreds." Kate Fenton, "Daily Telegraph" Horatia Winwood is simply helping her family. When the Earl of Rule proposes marriage to her sister Lizzie, Horatia offers herself instead. Her sister is already in love with someone else, and Hor[...]
"Sparkling" ?"Independent on Sunday" "A literary bubble bath.? Take a delightful and frothy dip among the gayer aspects of the author's favorite and well worked Regency period." ?"Sunday Tribune" "Almost an heiress" Country-bred, spirited Kitty Charings is on the brink of inheriting a fortune from h[...]
Devil's Cub is one of Georgette Heyer's most famous and memorable novels, featuring a dashing and wild young nobleman and the gently bred young lady in whom he finally meets his match.? "Like father, like son?" Dominic Alistair, Marquis of Vidal and fiery son of the notorious Duke of Avon, has estab[...]
?Reading Georgette Heyer is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen.? ?"Publishers Weekly" "A missing twin" Something is very wrong, and the Honourable Christopher ?Kit? Fancot can sense it. Kit returns to London on leave from the diplomatic service to find that his twin brother Evelyn has disapp[...]
One of fans' favorites, "Frederica" is full of surprises When Frederica brings her younger siblings to London determined to secure a brilliant marriage for her beautiful sister, she seeks out their distant cousin the Marquis of Alverstoke. Lovely, competent, and refreshingly straightforward, Frederi[...]
"A lightsome, brightsome comedy." ?"Kirkus Reviews" "Nimble, light-hearted chronicle of high London society in the time of the Regency." ?"The New Yorker" Georgette Heyer's sparkling romances have charmed and delighted millions of fans. Her characters brilliantly illuminate one of the most exciting [...]
On the eve of battle, passions are running high.? "A brilliant achievement?vivid, accurate, dramatic?the description of Waterloo is magnificent." ?"Daily Mail" "My favorite historical novelist." ?Margaret Drabble In the summer of 1815, with Napolean Bonaparte marching down from the north, Brussels i[...]
?A writer of great wit and style.? I?ve read her books to ragged shreds.? ?Kate Fenton, "Daily Telegraph" The spirited and independent Miss Annis Wychwood is?twenty-nine and well past the age for falling in love. But when Annis embroils herself in the affairs of a pretty runaway heiress, Miss Lucill[...]
"Triumphantly good. Georgette Heyer is unbeatable." India Knight, "Sunday Telegraph" "An impetuous flight " Tiffany Wield's bad behavior is a serious trial to her chaperone. "On the shelf " at twenty-eight, Ancilla Trent strives to be a calming influence on her tempestuous charge, but then Tiffany r[...]
Georgette Heyer is unbeatable "Sunday Telegraph" For her, he would do anything. Plainspoken country gentleman Philip Jettan won t bother with a powdered wig, high heels, and fashionable lace cuffs, until he discovers that his lovely neighbor is enamored with a sophisticated man-about-town. But what[...]
"Lively, amusing?done to a turn " ?"Kirkus Reviews" "A fateful mistake?" When Elinor Rochdale boards the wrong coach, she ends up not at her prospective employer's home but at the estate of Eustace Cheviot, a dissipated and ruined young man on the verge of death. "A momentous decision?" His cousin, [...]
A fascinating look into a tumultuous interlude in British history and the life of Bonnie Prince Charlie. This brilliantly entertaining novel is a fictionalization of the true story of Charles II (May 29, 1630?February 6, 1685), charting his daring flight to France after the Battle of Worcester, wher[...]
Finding so young and pretty a girl as Amanda wandering unattended, Sir Gareth Ludlow knows it is his duty as a man of honour to restore her to her family. But it is to prove no easy task for the Corinthian. His captive in sprig muslin has more than her rapturous good looks and bandboxes to aid her?s[...]
Set in the Georgian period, about 20 years before the Regency, "These Old Shades" is considered to be the novel that launched Heyer's career. It features two of Heyer's most memorable characters: Justin Alastair, the Duke of Avon, and Leonie, whom he rescues from a life of ignomy and comes to love a[...]
Witty a cheerful extravaganza. "The New Yorker"His exploits were legendary. Captain John Staple, back from the battlefront, is already bored with his quiet civilian life in the country. When he stumbles upon a mystery involving a disappearing toll-gate keeper, nothing could keep the adventure-loving[...]
"Wonderful entertainment from first page to last." ?"Chicago Tribune""A past dispute?" When the irascible Lord Darracott's eldest son dies unexpectedly, the noble family must accept their estranged Yorkshire cousin as heir apparent. They are convinced he will prove to be a sadly vulgar person, but n[...]