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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 |
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 |
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 |
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! 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!
When she steps inside the wrong carriage in a Sussex village, Elinor Rochdale little knows that she is about to embark on a thrilling and dangerous adventure.
Overnight the would-be governess becomes the mistress of a ruined estate and partner in a secret conspiracy to save a family's name.
By midnight she is a bride; by dawn a widow.
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2004 |
If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! Endowed with rank, wealth and elegance, Sylvester, Duke of Salford, is ready to find a bride. His pursuit of a partner sets him on course to Phoebe Marlow, a young lady who is far more concerned with riding than sewing or beautiful clothes. With Phoebe struggling to meet her family's demands of gentility and poise, a potential match with Sylvester is exceedingly advantageous. So, it is very intriguing indeed when a visit from her...
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2004 |
When Fate and a chivalrous impulse combine to saddle Viscount Desford with a friendless homeless waif named Cherry Steane, to whom else should he turn in such a scrape but his old childhood playmate, Henrietta Silverdale? For all they refused to oblige their parents by marrying, they have always been the best of friends. But as Desford pursues Cherry's lickpenny grandfather and reprobate father around unfashionable watering places and the seedier fringes of society, Hetta is forced to...
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2004 |
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! Neither Sir Tristram Shield nor his beautiful young cousin, Eustacie, share the slightest inclination to marry one another. Yet it is Eustacie's grandfather's dying wish, made on his deathbed. For there is no one else to look after and provide for Eustacie while his heir, Ludovic, remains a fugitive from justice after allegedly murdering a man in a dispute over a priceless family heirloom. And so the hunt is on - to find...
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2005 |
If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! Returning home from the battle of Waterloo to claim his title as the new Seventh Earl of St Erth, Gervase Frant is met with surprising hostility from his family. Only Theo, a cousin even quieter than himself, is there to greet him - and when he meets his stepmother and young half-brother he detects open disappointment that he survived the wars. The tensions in the household only worsen as the beautiful Mariann, the intended bride of...
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2005 |
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 |
Horry Winwood doesn’t play by the rules. So when her family are near ruin and her sister is about to enter a loveless marriage to a wealthy man to settle the family debts, young and headstrong Horry proposes to marry him in her sister's place. As her new husband's attentions fall elsewhere, Horry begins to feel increasingly unhappy. Then she meets the attractive and dangerous Lord Lethbridge and her days suddenly become more exciting. But there is bad blood between Horry's...
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2018 |
If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! Serena Carlow's former love now controls her future happiness. After her father's unexpected death, Serena's jilted ex-fiance - 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...
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2019 |
If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! 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...
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2019 |
If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! Hero Wantage is desperate to change her fate. When the dashing Lord Sherry proposes out of the blue, Hero is overjoyed - she'll escape a life as a governess and, once they wed, he can finally claim his inheritance. But as Hero attempts to social climb in glamorous London society, Sherry is concerned that her naivety will ruin them both and takes drastic action. The chaos that follows will push friendships - and hearts - to...
| Автор | Georgette Heyer |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2019 |
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 |
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 |