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Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency historical romance

The Toll-Gate

Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency romance

The Talisman Ring

Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable historical adventure

Simon The Coldheart

The Conqueror

The Reluctant Widow

A Civil Contract

The Quiet Gentleman

My Lord John

Cousin Kate

The Spanish Bride

Royal Escape

An Infamous Army

Faro's Daughter

Masqueraders

Beauvallet

Envious Casca

Sprig Muslin

The Nonesuch

Sylvester

The Foundling

Powder And Patch

My favourite historical novelist -- stylish, romantic, sharp, and witty. Her sense of period is superb, her heroines are enterprising, and her heroes dashing. I owe her many happy hours

Wonderful characters, elegant, witty writing, perfect period detail, and rapturously romantic. Georgette Heyer achieves what the rest of us only aspire to

A writer of great wit and style ... I've read her books to ragged shreds

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If he is to win her hand, Philip must become what he is not. 
 
In an 18th-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 but with unforeseen consequences for them both ... 
 
A peerlessly successful and prolific romantic novelist, Georgette Heyer shows in Powder And Patch what won her a wide, devoted readership that continues to this day. 
 
© Georgette Heyer 1923 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

A thrilling, witty, heart-racing Regency romance by one of our best-known and most beloved historical novelists.

Author of over fifty books, Georgette Heyer is the best-known and best-loved of all historical novelists, who made the Regency period her own. Her first novel, The Black Moth, published in 1921, was written at the age of fifteen to amuse her convalescent brother; her last was My Lord John. Although most famous for her historical novels, she also wrote eleven detective stories. Georgette Heyer died in 1974 at the age of seventy-one.

'A rollicking good read that will be of particular joy to Bridgerton viewers ... the permanent glister of scandal [...] ties the whole thing together' INDEPENDENT 
 
'[My] generation's Julia Quinn' ADJOA ANDOH, star of Bridgerton, in RED 
 
'One of my perennial comfort authors. Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' JOANNE HARRIS 
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In an 18th-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 but with unforeseen consequences for them both ... 
 
A peerlessly successful and prolific romantic novelist, Georgette Heyer shows in Powder And Patch what won her a wide, devoted readership that continues to this day. 
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'Elegant, witty and rapturously romantic' KATIE FFORDE 
 
'Utterly delightful' GUARDIAN 
 
'Fabulously witty' STEPHEN FRY 
 
'Absolutely delicious tales of Regency heroes. . . Utter, immersive escapism' SOPHIE KINSELLA 
 
'Georgette Heyer's Regency romances brim with elegance, wit and historical accuracy, and this is one of her finest and most entertaining ... Escapism of the highest order' DAILY MAIL 
 
'If you haven't read Georgette Heyer yet, what a treat you have in store!' HARRIET EVANS 
 
'Georgette Heyer is unbeatable.' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

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