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This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 16 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 thriller writing has once again overtaken the sales of general and literary fiction, Bodies from the Library unearths lost stories from the Golden Age, that period between the World Wars when detective fiction captured the...
| Автор | Агата Кристи, Милн Алан Александр, Tony Medawar, Georgette Heyer, Nicholas Blake, Christianna Brand |
| Жанр | Зарубежная современная проза, Зарубежный детектив, Сборники |
If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer!
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 - the infamous Jasper Damerel.
Before she realises it, Venetia is encouraging a man whose way of life has scandalised the North Riding for years.
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! A veteran campaigner at the age of twenty-five, Brigade-Major Harry Smith is reputed to be the luckiest man in Lord Wellington's army. But at the siege of Badajos, his friends foretell the ruin of his career. For when Harry meets the defenceless Juana, he falls instantly in love. With the selfsame ardour he so frequently displays in battle, Harry dives happily into marriage. In his beautiful young bride, he finds a kindred spirit: bold and...
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
Tragically left an orphan after her father's death, Kate Malvern is taken under the wing of her forbidding aunt Minerva and brought to the grand house of Staplewood, where Minerva rules the roost. Her uncle lives in one wing, while her handsome, moody cousin occupies another; guests are few and far between, and even family dinners are rigidly formal. But the sudden arrival of Cousin Philip throws Minerva's control over the household into doubt, and soon Kate begins to suspect the shocking...
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
Previously titled Pistols for Two, this collection includes three of Heyer’s earliest short stories, published together in book form for the very first time. A treat for all fans of Georgette Heyer, and for those who love stories full of romance and intrigue. Affairs of honour between bucks and blades, rakes and rascals; affairs of the heart between heirs and orphans, beauties and bachelors; romance, intrigue, escapades and duels at dawn. All the gallantry, villainy and elegance of the age that...
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Жанр | Современная проза |
| Год | 2017 |
If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! Kitty Charing's life-changing inheritance comes with a catch. Her eccentric and childless guardian, Mr. Penicuik, is leaving Kitty all of his vast fortune - but with one condition. She must marry one of his five grand-nephews. However, Kitty's clear favourite - the rakish Jack Westruther - doesn't appear at all interested in the arrangement. To make Jack jealous, Kitty impulsively convinces his cousin, the kind-hearted...
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2020 |
If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! Captain John Staple's exploits against Napoleon's armies in the Spanish Peninsula have earned him the nickname 'Crazy Jack' amongst his comrades in the Dragoon Guards. But once the Battle of Waterloo brings the Napoleonic Wars to a decisive end, the adventure-loving Captain finds life in peacetime intolerably dull. When he finds himself lost in the Pennines, he takes refuge at an unmanned toll-house. It's...
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2004 |
If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! Diana Beauleigh is caught between two men. Seven long years ago, Jack Carstares, the Earl of Wyncham, sacrificed his honour for his brother and has been in exile ever since. Returning to England, Jack pretends to be a gentleman named Sir Anthony Ferndale but makes his living in a most ungentlemanly fashion, as a highwayman and a gambler. When Jack encounters his nemesis, the Duke of Andover, in the midst of kidnapping Diana Beauleigh,...
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2020 |
If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer!
Vernon Alverstoke sees no reason to put himself out for anyone.
But when a distant connection asks for help, he is quickly plunged into one drama after another by the disorderly Merriville family.
Surprisingly, he finds himself far from bored - especially when he encounters their strong-minded daughter, Frederica.
However, she seems far more concerned with her family's welfare than his romantic advances...
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2019 |
If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! Nell Cardross and her husband are madly in love... But they're very bad at showing it. While Nell believes her new husband, the Earl, married her out of convenience, Giles Cardross worries that his young wife is more interested in his money than his heart. And Nell's secretive and extravagant spending is becoming a problem... As she attempts to pay off her brother's never-ending gambling debts, and prevent the...
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2020 |
If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer!
Annis Wychwood delights in her independence.
Beautiful, rich and far too busy for love, she has turned down the advances of many a hopeful suitor.
But when she becomes entangled in the affairs of a runaway heiress, she encounters the girl's guardian, the notorious Oliver Carleton.
While Oliver may be a reckless and uncivil rogue, Annis can't help but be drawn towards his wild ways . . .
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2019 |
If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! The only question which hangs over the life of Sir Richard Wyndham, notable whip, dandy and Corinthian, is one of marriage. Wyndham is contemplating his upcoming proposal with considerable dismay, when he chances upon a beautiful young fugitive, Penelope, making a dramatic exit from her home. Impressed, intrigued, and a little worse for drink, he decides to help Penelope flee. What follows is a shockingly perilous advantage - one which...
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2021 |
If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer!
1745: Robin and Prudence Merriot have been adventurers and dissemblers since they were children.
And as escaped Jacobites, they need to be.
Forced to go on the run, they disguise themselves and make their way to London where they witness the abduction of a beautiful heiress.
They rescue her, but in so doing Robin's real identity is revealed, and both he and Prudence find themselves in terrible danger ...
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2022 |
A wonderful Regency romance by one of our best-known and most beloved historical novelists, reissued with a beautiful new cover as part of our Heyer backlist project Sir Nicholas Beauvallet has never been known to resist a challenge. When he captures a galleon at sea, and the treasure turns out to be the lovely Dona Dominica de Rada y Silva, he vows to return her and her father to the shores of Spain. But, upon his immediate return, he proposes another venture; one more reckless than any of...
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Год | 2022 |
If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! To win her hand, he must become what he despises... In an eighteenth-century England of wit, womanising and powdered wigs, provincial Philip Jettan runs the risk of irreproachability. Cleone Charteris stands in no such danger. The golden-haired, headstrong despair of men, she seeks a husband who can duel and dice with the best of them. So Philip leaves for Paris, where his father's hopes and his lover's ideals are realised...
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2022 |
If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! 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 - seems far more intent on wooing her than saving her brother, but all is not as it seems... When the truth is revealed, Judith will finally discover if the Earl...
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2020 |
Even as a fourteen-year-old orphan, Simon Beauvallet knows his own mind. Later, friend and foe alike will know better than to cross the flaxen-haired mountain of a man whose exploits in battle have earned him knighthood, lands and gilded armour. However, his close circle of friends know him by another name: Simon the Coldheart. He seems to be a man incapable of love - until in Normandy he meets Lady Margaret, the so-called spitfire of Belremy. Can she melt Simon's icy demeanour and...
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Год | 2005 |
If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! A fiery debutante. An ill-tempered bachelor. A romance for the ages. Arabella, the daughter of an impoverished country parson, dreams of a new life in London. But her beauty and charm will only get her so far - and when Arabella embarks on her first London season armed with nothing but a benevolent godmother and her own notoriously short temper, she quickly runs afoul of Robert Beaumaris. He's the most eligible bachelor of the...
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2019 |