As you will see by my use of the typewriter, I am busily engaged on my new book. There is no room to write at my desk once I’ve set up the Infernal Machine! I […]
Charity Girl – against the odds – part 1 Read More »
One hundred years later One hundred years after writing her first novel, Georgette Heyer’s beloved novels are still in print and finding a new generation of avid readers. It is a remarkable achievement for a
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“I am now about to perpetrate another piece of nonsense, so that for the first time in my life I shall have something up my sleeve. I rather want to call it Snowbound, but as
Sylvester or The Wicked Uncle – Part 1 Read More »
Georgette Heyer, whose Sprig Muslin was one of the most delightful bits of flimflammery this side of P.G. Wodehouse in his early days, has done it again… In a melange of daffiness of this sort
April Lady – familiar, but different Read More »
“As a plotter she has no superior.“ J.H. Durston One of her finest heroines I love Georgette Heyer’s 1956 novel, Sprig Muslin, for many reasons, but the main reason is that the novel features one
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“I had a run through Bath Tangle, and found it (like Old Mr Bronte) much better than likely” Georgette Heyer to Louisa Callender, letter, 13 September 1954. “a rough idea of the thing” Georgette Heyer’s
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