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 seventeen to...

'Escapism of the highest order' DAILY MAIL 'One of my perennial comfort authors. Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' JOANNE HARRIS'Absolutely delicious tales of Regency heroes. . . Utter,...

Henrietta is beginning to wonder if Viscount Desford has fallen in love with a homeless waif. Without the intervention of his brother and Henrietta's worthy suitor Gary Nethercott, Desford is in danger of making a rare blunder in his...