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The Queen of Regency Romance as well as the author of a series of classic detective novels, Georgette Heyer is a worldwide bestseller having sold many millions of copies since her first novel was published in 1921. She continues to be a bestseller today, over 40 years after her death.
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Random House, UK
SourceBooks, US
Audible UK
Bastei Luebbe, Germany
Romances:
Astoria, Italy
Palabra, Spain
Editions Milady, France
Record, Brazil
PoppyPub, Korea
Detective Novels:
AST, Russia
Zysk i S-ka, Poland
Marketing Information
Worldwide Bestseller
Selling a million copies every year at the time of her death in 1974
Sales of over a million copies in the US alone in the last 10 years
Endorsements
“My favourite historical novelist – stylish, romantic, sharp and witty. Her sense of period is superb, her heroines are enterprising, and her heroes dashing.” - Margaret Drabble
“A superlatively good writer.” - A. S. Byatt
“Wonderful characters, elegant, witty writing, perfect period detail, and rapturously romantic, Georgette Heyer achieves what the rest of us aspire to” - Katie Fforde
“Georgette Heyer is unbeatable” - India Knight
“Heyer’s characters and dialogue are a delight” -Dorothy L Sayers
Reviews
Regency Romances:
“Triumphantly good” - Sunday Times
“Sparkling” - Independent on Sunday
“A writer of great wit and style.” - Daily Telegraph
“These books are page-turners; they offer a wonderful way to learn history; their heroines are smart, strong and in control of their destinies and their stories will remain with you forever.” - Daily Express
Detective Novels:
“The wittiest of detective writers” - Daily Mail
“A writer of great wit and style” - Daily Telegraph
“Classic storytelling is timeless. Vivid dialogue and a light touch …A nostalgic delight.” - Guardian
“Georgette Heyer is second to none in her ability to make detective stories entertaining.” - Sunday Times
“That rare and refreshing thing – a clever problem stated, developed and finally solved in terms of character” - The Times
“Miss Heyer’s characters act and speak with an ease that is as refreshing as it is rare in the ordinary mystery novel” - Times Literary Supplement
“Rarely have we seen humour and mystery so perfectly blended” - New York Times
“Sharp, clear and witty” - The New Yorker
“Ranks alongside such incomparable whodunit authors as Christie, Marsh, Tey and Allingham” - San Francisco Chronicle
Author Biography
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, published in 1973.
Although most famous for her historical novels, she also wrote eleven detective stories.
Georgette Heyer died in 1974 at the age of seventy-one.
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