Georgette Heyer

Chi è Frederica Merriville? È questa la domanda che si pone il marchese di Alverstoke quando una signorina, attraente e padrona di sé, si rivolge a lui perché l'aiuti a lanciare nella buona società di Londra la sua giovane e bellissima sorella Charis, e si prenda cura dei suoi fratelli...

Alla fine del lungo viaggio che doveva condurla alla dimora della signora Macclesfield, per diventarne la governante, Elinor Rochdale si trova invece al cospetto di un elegante gentiluomo, lord Carlyon, il quale le chiede di sposare il cugino Eustace, che giace nella stanza accanto, agonizzante...

Sir Waldo Hawkridge, der i London er kendt som Legenden – blandt andet på grund af sine store sportspræstationer og gode manerer – skal til Yorkshire for at se på en ejendom, han har arvet. Den rige og filantropiske Sir Waldo har planer om at istandsætte det store hus og lave det om til...

Brought to you by Penguin. The Convenient Marriage is read Jay by Avita Jay, who has appeared on stage in Sunday Morning at the Centre of the World, Peer Gynt and Bringon the Bollywood Horry Winwood doesn't play by the rules. So when her family are near ruin and her sister is about to enter...

Brought to you by Penguin. Beautiful heiress Judith Taverner has her pick of London suitors. But her luck takes a turn for the worse when her hapless brother, Peregrine, becomes the target of a would-be-assassin. To Judith's great annoyance, their mysterious guardian - the handsome Earl of Worth...

Brought to you by Penguin. In all her twenty-five years, Venetia Lanyon has never been further than Harrogate. Nor has she enjoyed the attentions of any man aside from her two wearisomely persistent suitors. Then, in one extraordinary encounter, she meets a neighbour she only knew by reputation...

"Georgette Heyer ist eine wundervolle Autorin, die beeindruckende Figuren, witzige Dialoge und fabelhafte Intrigen erschafft. Wer die Bücher von Jane Austen liebt, wird auch von Georgette Heyer begeistert sein." Night Owl Romance England, 1816: Sir Waldo Hawkridge genießt sein...

Regency Romance vom Feinsten Sussex, 1817. Der alte Lord Darracott erleidet einen schweren Schicksalsschlag: Nachdem sein eigentlicher Erbe bei einem Unglück ums Leben kommt, sieht er sich gezwungen, alles seinem unbekannten Neffen Major Hugo Darracott zu vermachen. Die Familie ist entsetzt!...

Brought to you by Penguin. Perfect period detail and rapturously romantic, from one of the best-known and beloved historical novelists of all time. John, Duke of Bedford, grew to manhood fighting for his father, King Henry IV of England, on the wild and lawless Northern Marches. A prince of the...

Brought to you by Penguin. Renowned gamester and the first to admit that he is entirely void of a romantic disposition, Max Ravenscar regards all eligible females with indifference and unconcern. But when he meets the woman his young cousin Adrian is bent on marrying - the beautiful Deborah...

Brought to you by Penguin. When Gervase Frant, Seventh Earl of St Erth, returns at last from Waterloo to his family seat at Stanyon, he enjoys a less than welcome homecoming. Only Theo, a cousin even quieter than himself, is there to greet him - and when he meets his stepmother and young...

This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together a selection of tales by masters of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a newly discovered Agatha Christie crime story that has not been seen since 1922. At a time when crime and...

Humorvoll-freche Romantik aus der Regency-Zeit 1816: Die 20-jährige Sophy Stanton-Lacy kommt in das Haus ihrer Tante in London. Die Verwandtschaft ist außer sich. Statt des erwarteten, sittsamen, schüchternen Mädchens ist Sophie eine selbstbewusste und vor Energie sprühende junge Frau, die...

Als die Geschwister Peter, Celia und Margaret gewarnt werden, dass es in dem ehemaligen Klostergebäude Priory, das sie geerbt haben...

Brought to you by Penguin. One of the best-known and most beloved historical novelists has captured a whole new audience's heart with her peerless romantic adventures. Dispossessed of crown and kingdom, crushed and routed at the grim Battle of Worcester, the young Charles II is forced to flee...

Brought to you by Penguin. Perfect period detail and rapturously romantic, from one of the best-known and beloved historical novelists of all time. William the Bastard, base-born son of the Duke of Normandy, must fight the king of France to regain his Duchy. Spurned in love by the lovely...

Brought to you by Penguin. Dark secrets, an unexplained death and an old country house lie at the heart of Georgette Heyer's classic murder mystery. The Priory may look ramshackle in appearance, but Peter, Margaret and Celia are totally charmed by their newly inherited country house. But...

Brought to you by Penguin. Second to none in her ability to make detective stories, Georgette Heyer is queen of the genre. Slumped on a seat under an oak tree is old Sampson Warrenby, with a bullet through his brain. He is discovered by his anxious niece, Mavis, who is just one of the 10...

Brought to you by Penguin. A delightful romantic adventure from one of the best-known and beloved historical novelists of all time. Robin and Prudence Merriot have been dissemblers since they were children. And in this age of slippery politics, they need to be. So it is nothing for them to...

Brought to you by Penguin. Adam Deveril, the new Viscount Lynton and a hero at Salamanca, returns from the Peninsula War to find his family on the brink of ruin and the broad acres of his ancestral home mortgaged to the hilt. It is Lord Oversley, father of Adam's first love, who tactfully...