Georgette Heyer's Regency World

Oct 18, 2024 12:24 AM

Author:Jennifer Kloester

If you love Georgette Heyer, 'the queen of Regency romance', this is a must-read: the definitive guide to the sparkling world of Georgette Heyer's celebrated novels, which are currently being reissued.

A bestselling novelist since 1921, Georgette Heyer is known across the world for her historical romances set in Regency England. Millions of readers love the outrageous lifestyle, fashion and capricious escapades of the elegant bon ton, and no one has captured that world better than Georgette Heyer, with universally beloved novels such as Regency Buck, The Grand Sophy and Friday's Child.

Georgette Heyer's Regency World is the ultimate, definitive guide to Georgette Heyer's wonderful and enchanting realm: her heroines, her villains and dashing heroes, the shops, clubs and towns they frequented, the parties and seasons they celebrated, how they ate, drank, dressed, socialized, shopped and drove.

An utterly delightful and fun read, beautifully illustrated and compelling in its historical detail, this is a must-have for any Georgette Heyer fan.

Reviews

An invaluable guide for all Heyer fans, old and new

—— Good Book Guide

Detailed, informative ... impressively researched. A Heyer lover writing for Heyer fans

—— Times Literary Supplement

This fascinating book is a must for Heyer devotees

—— Image Magazine

An invaluable guide to the world of the bon ton. No lover of Georgette Heyer's novels should be without it

—— Katie Fforde

A definitive guide to the people, places and society of her novels

—— Bookseller

Everything you need to know about Georgette Heyer's historical romance novels ... Accompanied by charming illustrations, this is all you ever wanted to discover about the society and politics of Regency Britain and how it influenced Heyer's work. A great book

—— Daily Express

Wonderful ... packed with information and fascinating facts about the realm [Georgette Heyer's] characters inhabit ... excellent

—— My Weekly

Learned, thoughtful and beautifully written... it conveys brilliantly and vividly the strange quality of these individuals' lives

—— Linda Colley , The Nation

Authoritative and scholarly

—— Sunday Telegraph

Evenhanded, carefully researched and elegantly written

—— Peter Parker , Times Literary Supplement, Books of the Year

A treasure trove of information from the serious to the trivial

—— Geoffrey Wheatcroft

Mammoth…beguiling…intriguing…vivid…engrossing

—— Scotsman

Truly, he has written London’s biography. I began rereading it as soon as I finished, and I urge you to read it as soon as possible, so that you can begin rereading it as well

—— Will Self , New Statesman

A fat and filling feast: pretty much everything of interest about the capital is crammed into the eight-hundred pages. One cannot but marvel at Ackroyd’s erudition, his energy in marshalling minutiae, his ear for quotation, his flair for dazzling juxtapositions, his vibrant imagination and sheer exuberance

—— The Times

An erudite labour of love, a fan-letter to a fabulous city, and a book one suspects Ackroyd was destined to write. It illuminates the English character, and is darkly humorous in its detail, tumbling through centuries crowded with legendary events and eccentric observations, as exuberant, energetic and alarming as the city itself

—— Independent on Sunday

A masterpiece

—— Evening Standard

Spellbinding

—— Express on Sunday

A sharp, beautifully written but above all truthful account of London…This is the kind of writing that gives intellectuals a good name

—— Sunday Tribune

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