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When Sophy is sent to stay with her London relatives, she finds her cousins in quite the tangle. Cecilia is besotted with an attractive but feather-brained poet, Hubert has fallen foul of a money-lender and the ruthlessly handsome Charles is engaged to a pedantic bluestocking who seems to bring out the worst in him. Fortunately, Sophy has arrived just in time to sort them all out - but Charles is eager to rid his family of her meddlesome ways. Has the grand Sophy finally met her match?

Serena Carlow's former love now controls her future happiness. After her father's unexpected death, Serena's jilted ex-fiancé—the Marquis of Rotherham—is made the sole trustee of her wealth and marriage prospects. Eager for an escape, she moves to Bath and encounters her childhood sweetheart, the dashing Hector Kirkby—but will Rotherham approve the match? Before long, they are all entangled in a confusion of marriage and manners the likes of which Regency Bath has rarely seen.

A dashing Regency romance from the legendary Georgette Heyer, founder of the genre. Captain John Staple's exploits against Napoleon's armies in the Iberian Peninsula have earned him the nickname 'Crazy Jack' amongst his comrades in the Dragoon Guards - but once the Battle of Waterloo brings the curtain down once and for all on the Napoleonic Wars, the boisterous, adventure-loving captain finds life in peacetime intolerably dull. 

Sir Gareth Ludlow never truly recovered from the death of his fiancée. Years later, a chance encounter with Amanda, a young and devastatingly pretty runaway, inspires him to try to do the right thing and to set her on a path towards a good life. But Sir Gareth has been neck-deep in a life of debauchery and hedonism ever since his fiancée's death, and Amanda's startlingly lively imagination proves to be more than he'd bargained for. As they both become increasingly entangled in Sir Gareth's scheme, it seems more and more difficult for either of them to lead the life they should.

Abigail Wendover has no time for love. She is far too busy protecting her niece, who has fallen madly in love with a suspected fortune-hunter. But her efforts become vastly more complicated with the arrival of Miles Calverleigh, the black sheep of his family - a reckless bachelor with a scandalous past. Abby soon discovers that, despite successfully managing her niece's love life, she has far less control over her own unruly heart. 

Brought to you by Penguin. Charity Steane has nothing in the world but hope. Escaping a miserable life under her tyrannical aunt, she decides to take her chances with her estranged grandfather in London. Now it's just a matter of finding him... And as a 'charity girl', with no dowry and no...

Sophy ankommer til Lady Ombersleys hus i London med en abe. Hun er ikke den generte, tilbageholdende pige, hendes faster havde forventet; den formidable Sophy er en kvik, opfindsom og sprudlende ung kvinde. Det går hurtigt op for Sophy, at familien har masser af problemer: hendes kusine Cecilia er forelsket i en fattig digter, og fætter Charles er forlovet med en kedeligt korrekt kvinde. Sophys onkel har ikke styr på noget, og de yngre børn trænger til at opleve lidt sjov og frihed.

A historical romance set in London, a small English town, and Paris. Remarkably well-crafted, with nuanced male and female characters, this book launched Georgette's 53-book best-selling career.

Fra sin himmelseng på godset Trevelin regerer den gamle og tilsyneladende sindssyge Penhallow med hård hånd over hele sin store familie, der i bund og grund består af individer, der er lige så saere som godsejeren selv. Da den gamle tyran findes myrdet i sin seng, er det ikke lettelse, men panik, der griber godsets beboere, for politiundersøgelsen bevaeger sig ud i alle mørke afkroge og helt ind til skeletterne i ska- bene, og på kryds og tvaers af familien mistaenk- er alle snart hinanden for mordet.

I dette fjerde bind i serien om inspektør Hannasyde, får inspektøren til opgave at opklare mordet på den velansete og respekterede Ernest Fletcher, der findes myrdet, taevet ihjel med et blunt objekt. I takt med at Hannasydes efterforskning udvikler sig, dukker der flere og flere beviser op, der tyder på, at Fletcher langt fra var den mand, han udgav sig for at vaere - og midt i det hele, bliver endnu et mord begået på naermest identisk vis.