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Tag Archives: Georgette Heyer
Post-Referendum Reading – Vigilante
I haven’t been reading much lately, or it’s been taking me much longer to get through books than usual. There are all sorts of reasons for this, to do with family life, too much time on social media or playing … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Reading, Reviews, Translation
Tagged Agatha Christie, blogging, books, Brexit, classics, comfort reading, crime fiction, detective fiction, fiction, funny books, Georgette Heyer, Jane Austen, literature, Lord of the Rings, Lucy Mangan, reading, recent reads, recommendations, reviews, Tolkien, translation, WITMonth, Wodehouse, Women in Translation
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The Private World of Georgette Heyer by Jean Aiken Hodge
Last year I was perturbed by Rachel Cooke’s review in the Guardian of Jennifer Kloester’s Georgette Heyer: Biography of a Bestseller. You can read my thoughts on the matter here: Fretting About Georgette Heyer. At the time I decided that … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Reading, Reviews
Tagged A.S. Byatt, biography, books, Brontes, Byatt, class system, classics, Dickens, Enid Blyton, fiction, Georgette Heyer, Grand Sophy, Jane Austen, Jane Eyre, Margaret Drabble, Nonesuch, reading, recent reads, recommendations, Regency, reviews, snobbery, Society of Authors, Sylvester, Thackeray
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