Jane Austen's Ghost
The acclaimed author of Georgette Heyer’s Regency World and Georgette Heyer: Biography of a Bestseller debuts with her first adult novel.
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A masterpiece of wit, ingenuity and impeccable style, Regency maven Jennifer Kloester brings the great Jane Austen into the modern world in this enchanting, exhilarating adventure of love, literature and life everlasting…
With her life a mess, Cassandra Austin seeks refuge in Winchester with her eccentric great-aunt – but Aunty B has problems of her own.
Ghost problems.
Cassie doesn’t believe in ghosts but she’ll do anything to help the only person who’s ever loved her. Besides, a simple spell in the cathedral crypt couldn’t do any harm, could it? Well, except for the two-hundred-year-old curse on Jane Austen, that is. Overnight, life is suddenly a whole lot weirder and it’s up to Cassie to save the day with the help of a dour Bishop, two literary geniuses, a couple of wise-cracking geriatrics and the enigmatic Oliver Carling.
Magic and mystery abound in this genre-bending contemporary-historical paranormal romance with a Regency twist.
The Novels of Georgette Heyer
For decades, Jennifer Kloester has researched the life and work of Georgette Heyer.
‘Fascinating reading. I can see my copy is going to become as battered as my beloved Heyer novels as I repeatedly pull it from the bookshelf to look up this or that. A must for every Georgette Heyer fan’ – Anne Gracie
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The author of Georgette Heyer’s Regency World and Georgette Heyer: Biography of a Bestseller, the definitive biography of this reclusive, beloved author, Kloester now turns her attention to the 56 novels in Heyer’s canon, most of which are still in print.
Georgette Heyer: Biography of a Bestseller
The woman behind the books has stayed hidden…until now!
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Georgette Heyer famously said, “I am to be found in my work.” Who was this amazing bestselling author who was so secretive about her personal life that she never gave an interview or made public appearances to promote her books? Where did she get her ideas? What motivated her to create a Regency world so intricately researched that five generations of readers want to escape there again and again?
She wrote her first novel, The Black Moth, at seventeen in order to amuse her convalescent younger brother. Published to instant success in 1921, nearly one hundred years later it has never been out of print. In her fifty-year career Georgette Heyer wrote fifty-five novels and one book of short stories. For decades Heyer’s Regency novels, historical novels and detective-thrillers have surprised and delighted millions, while the woman behind the books has stayed hidden…until now!
With unprecedented, exclusive access to Heyer’s notebooks, private papers, and to several previously untapped archives of her early letters, Jennifer Kloester uncovers both the complex life of a private woman and a masterful writer’s craft that will forever resonate in literature and beyond.
Georgette Heyer's Regency World
The ultimate, definitive guide to Georgette Heyer’s novels.
‘An invaluable guide for all Heyer fans, old and new.’
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Georgette Heyer’s Regency World is the ultimate, definitive guide to Georgette Heyer’s novels: her heroines, her villains and dashing heroes, the shops, clubs and towns they frequented, the parties and seasons they celebrated, how they ate, drank, socialized, shopped and drove.
From the fascinating slang, the elegant fashions, the precise ways the bon ton drank, danced and flirted, to the shocking real life scandals of the day, Georgette Heyer’s Regency World takes you behind the scenes of Heyer’s captivating novels.
As much fun to read as Heyer’s own novels, beautifully illustrated and meticulously researched, Jennifer Kloester’s essential guide brings the world of the Regency to life in this utterly delightful and fun read. Compelling in its historical detail, this is a must-have for Georgette Heyer and Jane Austen fans alike.
Acting on Impulse: Contemporary Short Stories by Georgette Heyer
In the 1920s, Georgette Heyer wrote a number of contemporary short fiction pieces, published in various women’s and literary magazines of the era. Now, for the first time ever, these stories are collected in this fully-authorised anthology, with commentary by Heyer’s official biographer, Jennifer Kloester, and Reading Heyer‘s Rachel Hyland.
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The stories include:
– “A Proposal to Cicely”
– “The Little Lady”
– “The Bulldog and the Beast”
– “Lincke’s Great Case”
– “Acting on Impulse”
– “The Chinese Shawl”
– “Whose Fault Was It?”
– “The Old Maid”
The collection also includes a bonus Georgian tragedy, “Love”, and the search for “On Such a Night”, a story long-missing from the Heyer canon.
Given their proper context within Georgette Heyer’s burgeoning literary career, in many ways these stories serve as her “Juvenilia,” and are not only of great scholarly and popular interest to those who study and enjoy Heyer’s magical works, words, and worlds, but amply demonstrate the seeds of genius that have since made her one of the most enduring and admired authors of the 20th-century.
