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P.G. Wodehouse

A Mulliner collection 
 
In the bar-parlour of the Angler's Rest, Mr Mulliner tells his amazing tales, which hold his audience of drinkers (referred to only as Pints of Stout and Whiskies-and-Splash) in the palm of his expressive hand. Here you can discover what happened to The Man Who Gave Up Smoking, share a frisson when the butler delivers Something Squishy on a silver salver ('Your serpent, Sir,' said the voice of Simmons) &shy;- and experience the dreadful Unpleasantness at Bludleigh Court. Throughout the Mulliner clan remains resourcefully in command in the most outlandish situations, making for a vintage collection of hilarious Wodehouse.

Mr Mulliner Speaking

'It seems to me that you and I were made for each other. I am your best friend's best friend and we both have a taste for stealing other people's jewellery.' 
 
Lady Constance Keeble has both an imperious manner and a valuable diamond necklace. The precarious peace of Blandings is shattered when her necklace becomes the object of desire for some well-connected jewel thieves - among them the Honourable Freddie Threepwood, who wants the reward money for a bookmaking business, and Psmith, the elegant socialist. On patrol with the impossible task of bringing order to Blandings is the Efficient Baxter, whose strivings lead to a memorable encounter with the castle flowerpots.

Leave it to Psmith

Meet the hilarious British dilettante Bertram 'Bertie' Wooster who can't seem to help finding himself in the middle of awkward social situations, calling upon his valet Jeeves to escape embarrassment.

‘P.G. Wodehouse remains the greatest chronicler of a certain kind of Englishness, that no one else has ever captured quite so sharply, or with quite as much wit and affection’ Julian Fellowes 
 
‘Jeeves, of course, is a gentleman’s gentleman, not a butler, but if the call comes, he can buttle with the best of them.’ 
 
Bertie’s friend ‘Stinker Pinker’ needs his help. But helping his friend means venturing back into the dreaded Totleigh Towers and facing Sir Watkyn Bassett, his ghastly daughter Madeline and would-be dictator Roderick Spode once more. Despite having sworn never to set foot in there again, Bertie, true to form, answers the call of friendship. 
 
But even the best laid plans can go awry and, as usual, the only one who can set this frightful adventure straight is Jeeves. 
 
‘A comic master’ David Walliams

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

(Jeeves & Wooster)

A Jeeves and Wooster novel 
 
Trapped in rural Steeple Bumpleigh, a man less stalwart than Bertie Wooster would probably give way at the knees. 
 
For among those present were Florence Craye, to whom Bertie had once been engaged and her new fiancé 'Stilton' Cheesewright, who sees Bertie as a snake in the grass. And that biggest blot on the landscape, Edwin the Boy Scout, who is busy doing acts of kindness out of sheer malevolence. 
 
All Bertie's forebodings are fully justified. For in his efforts to oil the wheels of commerce, promote the course of true love and avoid the consequences of a vendetta, he becomes the prey of all and sundry. In fact only Jeeves can save him...

Joy in the Morning

A P.G. Wodehouse novel 
 
The peaceful slumber of the Worcester village of Rudge-in-the-Vale is about to be rudely disrupted. First there's a bitter feud between peppery Colonel Wyvern and the Squire of Rudge Hall, rich but miserly Lester Carmody. Second, that arch-villain Chimp Twist has opened a health farm - and he and Soapy and Dolly Molloy are planning a fake burglary so Lester can diddle his insurance company. After the knockout drops are served, things get a little complicated. But will Lester's nephew John win over his true love, Colonel Wyvern's daughter Pat, and restore tranquillity to the idyll? It's a close-run thing...

Money for Nothing

Georgette Heyer

Tragically left an orphan after her father's death, Kate Malvern is taken under the wing of her foreboding aunt Minerva and brought to the grand house of Staplewood, where Minerva rules the household. 
 
Her uncle lives in one wing, while her handsome, moody cousin occupies another; guests are few and far between, and even family dinners are rigidly formal. 
 
But the sudden arrival of Cousin Philip throws Minerva's control over the household into doubt, and soon Kate begins to suspect the shocking reason for Minerva's generosity. 
 
She has no-one to confide in but Cousin Philip who - for reasons unknown - seems to have taken an unaccountable dislike to her... 
 
A rich and classic Regency Romance, Cousin Kate is replete with the sparkling humour, memorable characters and intricate plots that will delight Heyer fans the world over. 
 
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'My generation's Julia Quinn' Adjoa Andoh 
 
'Utterly delightful' Guardian 
 
'If you haven't read Georgette Heyer yet, what a treat you have in store' Harriet Evans

Cousin Kate

Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency romance

A Jeeves and Wooster novel 
 
The beefy 'Stilton' Cheesewright has drawn Bertie Wooster as red-hot favourite in the Drones club annual darts tournament - which is lucky for Bertie because otherwise Stilton would have beaten him to a pulp and buttered the lawn with him. Stilton does not, after all like men who he thinks are trifling with his fiancée's affections. 
 
Meanwhile Bertie has committed a more heinous offence by growing a moustache, and Jeeves strongly disapproves - which is unfortunate, because Jeeves's feudal spirit is desperately needed. Bertie's Aunt Dahlia is trying to sell her magazine Milady's Boudoir to the Trotter Empire and still keep her amazing chef Anatole out of Lady Trotter's clutches. And Bertie? Bertie simply has to try to hold onto his moustache and hope he gets to the end in one piece.

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

A Jeeves and Wooster novel 
 
Just as Bertie Wooster is a member of the Drones Club, Jeeves has a club of his own, the Junior Ganymede, exclusively for butlers and gentlemen's gentlemen. In its inner sanctum is kept the Book of Revelations, where the less than perfect habits of their employers are lovingly recorded. The book is, of course, pure dynamite. So what happens when it disappears into potentially hostile hands? 
 
Tossed about in the resulting whirlwind you'll find lots of Wodehouse's favourite characters - and a welcome return to Market Snodsbury, in the middle of one of the most chaotic elections of modern times.

Much Obliged, Jeeves

If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! 
 
'The greatest writer who ever lived' ANTONIA FRASER 
'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 
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When Kit Fancot returns on leave from the diplomatic service, he expects to find his loving family at home waiting for him. 
 
Instead, he is startled to find his alluring yet extravagant mother on the brink of financial and social ruin. Even more shocking, he is informed that his twin brother Evelyn has vanished without a trace. 
 
It's not long before Kit realises the true extent of his family's tangled affairs; it's left to him to set things right. 
 
But in the face of Evelyn's continued absence, Kit's ingenuity is stretched to the limit . . . 
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'One of my perennial comfort authors. Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' JOANNE HARRIS 
'Elegant, witty and rapturously romantic' KATIE FFORDE 
'Utterly delightful' GUARDIAN 
'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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Readers love False Colours ... 
 
***** 'Love, love, love!!' 
***** 'Omigod this book was SO FUN. It was just pure delight and put a smile on my face more than once.' 
***** 'Five well-earned stars.' 
***** 'Georgette Heyer is the queen of Regency comedy of errors, and this story is one of her best.' 
***** 'I love this book so much. It's definitely made my top 10 by Heyer list. And the characters! The plot! I love False Colours so much.'

False Colours

If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! 
 
'The greatest writer who ever lived' ANTONIA FRASER 
'[My] generation's Julia Quinn' ADJOA ANDOH, star of Bridgerton 
'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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Horry Winwood doesn't play by the rules. 
 
So when her family are near ruin and her sister is about to enter a loveless marriage to a wealthy man to settle the family debts, young and headstrong Horry proposes to marry him in her sister's place. 
 
As her new husband's attentions fall elsewhere, Horry begins to feel increasingly unhappy. 
 
Then she meets the attractive and dangerous Lord Lethbridge and her days suddenly become more exciting. 
 
But there is bad blood between Horry's husband and her new acquaitnance, and as complications and deceptions mount, the social tangle grows ever trickier to unpick. 
 
Will Horry's gamble cost her everything she holds most dear? 
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'Elegant, witty and rapturously romantic' KATIE FFORDE 
'Utterly delightful' GUARDIAN 
'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 
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Readers love The Convenient Marriage . . . 
 
***** 'Another good read from Heyer!!! I absolutely loved the characters!!!' 
***** 'Heyer's characterizations just sparkle and shine.' 
***** 'Absolutely delightful. As expected, really.' 
***** 'I enjoyed this historical romance very much.' 
***** 'Splendid comedy, with a charming romance.'

The Convenient Marriage

A Mulliner collection 
 
A private detective who can make the guilty confess simply by smiling at them. An artist so intimidated by his morally impeccable cat that he feels compelled to wear formal attire at dinner. A devotee of Proust whose life is turned upside down when he inadvertently subscribes to a correspondence course on How to Acquire Complete Self-Confidence and an Iron Will. These are just a few of the many members of the eccentric Mulliner clan whose lives and exploits are laid before the regulars of the Angler's Rest by that doyen of raconteurs, Mr Mulliner, in a series of hilarious and beautifully turned short stories where lunacy and comic exuberance reign supreme.

Mulliner Nights

A Mulliner collection 
 
In the Angler's Rest, drinking hot scotch and lemon, sits one of Wodehouse's greatest raconteurs. Mr Mulliner, his vivid imagination lubricated by Miss Postlethwaite the barmaid, has fabulous stories to tell of the extraordinary behaviour of his far-flung family: in particular there's Wilfred, inventor of Raven Gypsy face-cream and Snow of the Mountain Lotion, who lights on the formula for Buck-U-Uppo, a tonic given to elephants to enable them to face tigers with the necessary nonchalance. Its explosive effects on a shy young curate and then the higher clergy is gravely revealed. Then there's his cousin James, the detective-story writer, who has inherited a cottage more haunted than anything in his own imagination. And Isadore Zinzinheimer, head of the Bigger, Better &amp; Brighter Motion Picture Company. Tall tales all - but among Wodehouse's best.

Meet Mr Mulliner

If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! 
 
'The greatest writer who ever lived' Antonia Fraser 
'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, immersive escapism' Sophie Kinsella 
'Georgette Heyer is second to none' Sunday Times 
'Fabulously witty' Stephen Fry 
'Elegant, witty and rapturously romantic' Katie Fforde 
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Diana Beauleigh is caught between two men. 
 
Seven long years ago, Jack Carstares, the Earl of Wyncham, sacrificed his honour for his brother and has been in exile ever since. 
 
Returning to England, Jack pretends to be a gentleman named Sir Anthony Ferndale but makes his living in a most ungentlemanly fashion, as a highwayman and a gambler. 
 
When Jack encounters his nemesis, the Duke of Andover, in the midst of kidnapping Diana Beauleigh, the two old enemies come to blows. 
 
Can Jack save the beautiful Diana from rakes, kidnap and ruin...? 
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Readers love The Black Moth ... 
 
***** 'This is a wonderful story with a fabulous cast of characters.' 
***** 'This was my very first Heyer novel and I must admit that I was immensely impressed.' 
***** 'This one is a joy to read. 
***** 'This book is full of excitement and humour.' 
***** 'Just amazing.'

The Black Moth

If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! 
 
'The greatest writer who ever lived' Antonia Fraser 
'One of the wittiest, most insightful and rewarding prose writers imaginable' Stephen Fry 
'All hail Georgette Heyer ... devilish good fun' Guardian 
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1745: Robin and Prudence Merriot have been adventurers and dissemblers since they were children. 
 
And as escaped Jacobites, they need to be. 
 
Forced to go on the run, they disguise themselves and make their way to London where they witness the abduction of a beautiful heiress. 
 
They rescue her, but in so doing Robin's real identity is revealed, and both he and Prudence find themselves in terrible danger ... 
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Readers love Masqueraders . . . 
 
***** 'One of the best books ever. Recommended, over and over again!' 
***** 'I am in ecstasy over this book' 
***** 'The dialogue in this book absolutely rocks.' 
***** 'It's very good fun, and it may be one of my favourite Heyer books so far.' 
***** 'One of Heyer's more fantastical stories'

Masqueraders

If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! 
 
'The greatest writer who ever lived' ANTONIA FRASER 
'Absolutely delicious tales of Regency heroes . . . Utter, immersive escapism' SOPHIE KINSELLA 
'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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A fiery debutante. An ill-tempered bachelor. A romance for the ages. 
 
Arabella, the daughter of an impoverished country parson, dreams of a new life in London. But her beauty and charm will only get her so far - and when Arabella embarks on her first London season armed with nothing but a benevolent godmother and her own notoriously short temper, she quickly runs afoul of Robert Beaumaris. 
 
He's the most eligible bachelor of the day, with a personality as strong and combative as hers - and Arabella cannot abide him thinking of her as just another pretty girl after his wealth. So she allows herself to be provoked into a game of deception - one that could have unexpected consequences... 
 
Arabella is a rich, dashing romance from Georgette Heyer, the legendary creator of the beloved Regency romance genre. 
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'Wonderful characters . . . rapturously romantic' KATIE FFORDE 
'A wonderful wit . . . I've read her over and over and over again' STEPHEN FRY 
'Triumphantly good . . . Georgette Heyer is unbeatable' INDIA KNIGHT 
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Readers love Arabella ... 
 
***** 'An absolutely fantastic read' 
***** 'A true Regency romance classic' 
***** 'Enjoyed this book so much I read it again.' 
***** 'I absolutely loved it!' 
***** 'Kept me wholly entertained and engrossed.'

Arabella

It takes a lot of effort for Jimmy Crocker to become Piccadilly Jim - nights on the town roistering, headlines in the gossip columns, a string of broken hearts and breaches of promise. Eventually he bacomes rather good at it and manages to go to pieces with his eyes open. 
 
But no sooner has Jimmy cut wild swathe through fashionable London than his terrifying Aunt Nesta decides he must mend his ways. He then falls in love with the girl he has hurt most of all, and after that things get complicated. 
 
In a dizzying plot, impersonations pile on impersonations so that (for reasons that will become clear, we promise) Jimmy ends up having to pretend he's himself. Piccadilly Jim is one of P.G. Wodehouse's most renowned early comic novels, and has been filmed three times.

Piccadilly Jim

A Blandings novel 
 
Can the Empress of Blandings win the Fat Pigs class at the Shropshire Show for the third year running? Galahad Threepwood, Beach the butler and others have put their shirt on this, and for Lord Emsworth it will be paradise on earth. But a substantial obstacle lurks in the way: Queen of Matchingham, the new sow of Sir Gregory Parsloe Bart. Galahad knows this pretender to the crown must be pignapped. But can the Empress in turn avoid a similar fate? 
 
In this classic Blandings novel, pigs rise above their bulk to vanish and reappear in the most unlikely places, while young lovers are crossed and recrossed in every room in Blandings Castle.

Pigs Have Wings

(Blandings Castle)

Adam Deveril, the new Viscount Lynton and a hero at Salamanca, returns from the Peninsula War to find his family on the brink of ruin and the broad acres of his ancestral home mortgaged to the hilt. It is Lord Oversley, father of Adam's first love, who tactfully introduces him to Mr Jonathan Chaleigh, a City man of apparently unlimited wealth with no social ambitions for himself, but with his eyes firmly fixed on a suitable match for his one and only daughter. 
 
For more than fifty years Georgette Heyer brought romance and adventure to a worldwide readership and Civil Contarct shows how she continues to be loved today.

A Civil Contract

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A Jeeves and Wooster novel 
 
Jeeves is on holiday in Herne Bay, and while he's away the world caves in on Bertie Wooster. For a start, he's astonished to read in The Times of his engagement to the mercurial Bobbie Wickham. Then at Brinkley Court, his Aunt Dahlia's establishment, he finds his awful former head master in attendance ready to award the prizes at Market Snodsbury Grammar School. And finally the Brinkley butler turns out for reasons of his own to be Bertie's nemesis in disguise, the brain surgeon Sir Roderick Glossop. 
 
With all occasions informing against him, Bertie has to hightail it to Herne Bay to liberate Jeeves from his shrimping net. And after that, the fun really starts. 
 
‘I picked up Jeeves in the Offing recently, having not read PG Wodehouse for years. Half an hour later I was still reading and laughing. He can develop a comic idea and deliver the payoff over a chapter, a paragraph, or a single sentence.’ Sadie Jones (in the Guardian)

Jeeves in the Offing

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A Jeeves and Wooster novel 
 
'It's hard to single out one book as the entire Jeeves and Wooster collection is Bach Rescue Remedy in literary form, but this tale of romantic imbroglio is a priceless hoot... Every sentence is a perfectly wrought delight.' Independent 
 
At Deverill Hall, an idyllic Tudor manor in the picture-perfect village of King's Deverill, impostors are in the air. The prime example is man-about-town Bertie Wooster, doing a good turn to Gussie Fink-Nottle by impersonating him while he enjoys fourteen days away from society after being caught taking an unscheduled dip in the fountains of Trafalgar Square. Bertie is of course one of nature's gentlemen, but the stakes are high: if all is revealed, there's a danger that Gussie's simpering fiancée Madeline may turn her wide eyes on Bertie instead. 
 
It's a brilliant plan - until Gussie himself turns up, imitating Bertram Wooster. After that, only the massive brain of Jeeves (himself in disguise) can set things right.

The Mating Season

Dive into this collection of laugh-out-loud funny short stories from the perennial comic P. G. Wodehouse. 
 
Meet Clarence, the absent-minded ninth Earl of Emsworth, whose beloved pig the Empress of Blandings is in the running for her first prize in the Fat Pigs Class at the Shropshire Agricultural Show. Revel in the delicious feud between Head Gardener McAllister and the terrifying Lady Constance, which can only be solved by a delightfully rebellious little girl from London. And skipping an ocean and a continent, indulge in unputdownable stories of excess from the monstrous Golden Age of Hollywood, specially selected by Wodehouse himself. 
 
'P. G. Wodehouse is the funniest person that has ever written words' Greg James 
'An incomparable and timeless genius' Kate Mosse

Blandings Castle and Elsewhere

‘Does one desire the Yule-tide spirit, sir?’ 
‘Certainly one does. I am all for it.’ 
 
Aunts, engagements, misunderstandings and hangover cures; this delightful collection from ‘the greatest chronicler of a certain kind of Englishness’ (Julian Fellowes) brings together a baker’s dozen of P. G. Wodehouse’s finest short stories. 
 
‘A comic master’ David Walliams 
 
‘A cavalcade of perfect joy’ Caitlin Moran

Jeeves and the Yule-Tide Spirit and Other Stories

'P. G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century' Sebastian Faulks 
 
'Witty and effortlessly fluid. His books are laugh-out-loud funny' Arabella Weir 
 
Welcome to Blandings Castle - where there's always something going on and a rollicking good time to be had. In this collection of assorted stories, dive into the wonderful world of Wodehouse where a comedy of errors awaits at every turn. Meet the regulars at Blandings: the engagingly dotty Lord Emsworth, his terrifying sister Lady Constance and his secretary the Efficient Baxter, whose attempts to bring order to the castle always end in disarray. And revel in the hijinks galore that come with the addition of lovestruck young men, headstrong young women, iron-willed aunts and imposters roaming the grounds - not to mention the Empress of Blandings, Lord Emsworth's prized pig.

The World of Blandings

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'If comedy is your thing, it's hard to match PG Wodehouse and his classic characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster for hilarious farce.' Irish Daily Mail 
 
'P.G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century' Sebastian Faulks 
 
'Heaven is Right Ho, Jeeves' Hugh Johnson 
 
'Jeeves, I'm engaged.' 
'I hope you will be very happy, sir.' 
'Don't be an ass. I'm engaged to Miss Bassett.' 
 
Bertie is feeling most put out when he finds that his friend Gussie is seeking relationship advice from Jeeves. Meanwhile Aunt Dahlia has asked Bertie to present awards at a school prize-giving ceremony. In a stroke of genius, Bertie realises he can kill two birds with one stone, palming off his prize-giving duties to Gussie by assuring him that the object of his affections will be there. 
 
Several terrible misunderstandings later and facing chaos, Bertie turns, yet again, to Jeeves who swiftly and ingeniously saves the day. 
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'Sublime comic genius' Ben Elton 
 
'A cavalcade of perfect joy' Caitlin Moran 
 
'Sunlit perfection... Bask in its warmth and splendour' Stephen Fry 
 
'The greatest chronicler of a certain kind of Englishness' Julian Fellowes

Right Ho, Jeeves

'I like that young man. He is sound on pigs. He has his head screwed on the right way.' 
 
The Empress of Blandings, prize-winning pig and all-consuming passion of Clarence, Ninth Earl of Emsworth, has disappeared. 
 
Blandings Castle is in uproar and there are suspects a-plenty - from the scandalous memoirist Galahad Threepwood to the Efficient Baxter, and the chilling former secretary to Lord Emsworth. Even Beach the Butler seems deeply embroiled. And what of Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe, Clarence's arch-rival and neighbour, whose own pig competes with the Empress for local glory? 
 
With the castle full or imposters and deception around every corner, how will the Earl ever get to the bottom of the disappearance of the castle's most precious occupant? 
 
'Wodehouse is so utterly, properly, simply funny' Adele Parks 
 
'Line for line, no other author brings me as much pleasure' Joe Dunthorne

Summer Lightning

A Blandings novel 
 
Unwelcome guests are descending on Blandings Castle - particularly the overbearing Duke of Dunstable, who settles in the Garden Suite with no intention of leaving, and Lady Constance, Lord Emsworth's sister and a lady of firm disposition, who arrives unexpectedly from New York. Skulduggery is also afoot involving the sale of a modern nude painting (mistaken by Lord Emsworth for a pig). It's enough to take the noble earl on the short journey to the end of his wits. 
 
Luckily Clarence's brother Galahad Threepwood, cheery survivor of the raffish Pelican Club, is on hand to set things right, restore sundered lovers and even solve all the mysteries.

A Pelican at Blandings

If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! 
 
'The greatest writer who ever lived' Antonia Fraser 
'One of my perennial comfort authors. Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' Joanne Harris 
'Georgette Heyer is second to none' Sunday Times 
'Fabulously witty' Stephen Fry 
'Absolutely delicious tales of Regency heroes . . . Utter, immersive escapism' Sophie Kinsella 
'Wonderful characters . . . rapturously romantic' Katie Fforde 
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Kitty Charing's life-changing inheritance comes with a catch. 
 
Her eccentric and childless guardian, Mr. Penicuik, is leaving Kitty all of his vast fortune - but with one condition. She must marry one of his five grand-nephews. 
 
However, Kitty's clear favourite - the rakish Jack Westruther - doesn't appear at all interested in the arrangement. To make Jack jealous, Kitty impulsively convinces his cousin, the kind-hearted and chivalrous Freddy Standen, to enter into a pretend engagement. 
 
But the more time she spends with Freddy, the more Kitty wonders whether Jack is the right choice after all... 
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Readers love Cotillion . . . 
 
***** 'This is a Heyer novel, so of course I expected to enjoy it, but I hadn't planned on falling totally head over heels in love with it!!' 
***** 'If I was stranded on a desert island, this would definitely be one of the novels I would want with me!' 
***** 'This is one of Heyer's best books featuring one of her very best characters, that of Freddie Standen.' 
***** 'Clever, cute, and so light and carefree it practically bounces.' 
***** 'Cotillion quickly moved to the top of my favorite Heyer books.'

Cotillion

If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! 
 
'The greatest writer who ever lived' Antonia Fraser 
'Absolutely delicious tales of Regency heroes . . . Utter, immersive escapism' Sophie Kinsella 
'I could mainline Heyer's Regency romances until the end of time and still not get bored . . . Georgette Heyer is perfect lockdown escapism' India Knight 
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Vernon Alverstoke sees no reason to put himself out for anyone. 
 
But when a distant connection asks for help, he is quickly plunged into one drama after another by the disorderly Merriville family. 
 
Surprisingly, he finds himself far from bored - especially when he encounters their strong-minded daughter, Frederica. 
 
However, she seems far more concerned with her family's welfare than his romantic advances... 
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'One of my perennial comfort authors. Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' JOANNE HARRIS 
'There is no one better at intelligent effervescence than Heyer. All her books are utter bliss' ANNA MURPHY, TIMES Pick of the Month 
'Sparkling' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 
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Readers love Frederica ... 
 
***** 'I would definitely recommend Frederica for readers who want to pick up their first Georgette Heyer book.' 
***** 'This is one of my favourite Georgette Heyer books.' 
***** 'Frederica is a lovely story. Fun, heartwarming, and plausible.' 
***** 'This is one of my top three Heyer titles.' 
***** 'It is romance and comedy, wit and family at its best.'

Frederica

A Blandings novel 
 
As a peer of the realm, Clarence, Ninth Earl of Emsworth, has an occasional duty to leave the Empress of Blandings, surely the most considerable pig in the whole world, and travel to London for the opening of parliament. It comes hard to him, for he has a proper sense of the priorities in life, which rate pigs and flowerbeds higher than politicians. 
 
But no sooner has he returned to Blandings than his real problems begin: the dastardly Duke of Dunstable is out to steal the Empress. His sister Lady Constance has inflicted on him a particularly nasty new secretary. And the Church Lads' Brigade are camped all over his lawns. 
 
Thank God for the Earl of Ickenham, better known as Uncle Fred, whose own particularly devious brand of sweetness and light aims to banish blackmailers and pig-stealers and restore true love all over the castle grounds.

Service with a Smile

A Blandings novel 
 
When the moon is full at Blandings, strange things happen: among them the commissioning of a portrait of The Empress, twice in succession winner in the Fat Pigs Class at the Shropshire Agricultural Show. What better choice of artist, in Lord Emsworth's opinion, than Landseer. The renowned painter of The Stag at Bay may have been dead for decades, but that doesn't prevent Galahad Threepwood from introducing him to the castle - or rather introducing Bill Lister, Gally's godson, so desperately in love with Prudence that he's determined to enter Blandings in yet another imposture. Add a gaggle of fearsome aunts, uncles and millionaires, mix in Freddie Threepwood, Beach the Butler and the gardener McAllister, and the moon is full indeed.

Full Moon

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