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Georgette Heyer ONLY book club...

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LadyDamerel · 11/04/2012 22:28

...could we start one?

I know there are loads of GH fans on here, so what do you think?

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LeonieDeSaintVire · 24/05/2012 22:54

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Dalliard · 23/05/2012 18:10

Hello, I'm too late for These Old Shades but love GH, so would like to come along for the next one please. :)

PrematurelyAirconditioned · 21/05/2012 16:15

I reckon it's These Old Shades day today have been counting the hours so I've started a thread.
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/adult_fiction/1477872-These-Old-Shades-Georgette-Heyer-Book-Club-pt2
Hope that's OK.

SilkStalkings · 21/05/2012 11:48

Me too please, am on my 3rd book, having just discovered her this year. Regency romance is my secret escape.
Have just read Cotillion and have been absolutely charmed by the hero, an apparent airhead dandy who's hidden depths are not even known to him until his faux-fiancée brings them out. Never met a romantic hero like him!

Am also fond of the writer Mary Balogh who I now know basically does GH but with rude bits. Her 'Slightly' series has some seriously hot heroes.

LeonieDeSaintVire · 07/05/2012 21:45

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minsmum · 17/04/2012 23:19

It was an all girls school and everyone who was taught by that teacher, that I am still in touch with, has been left with a lifelong love of GH and shakespeare.

She was an original and just wanted us to get the same pleasure from books that she did so her choices were quite varied

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LadyDamerel · 16/04/2012 23:00

Envy I wish my english teacher had given us GH after Silas Marner. I detested that book.

I'm halfway through Black Moth, can't wait for the 30th Grin.

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minsmum · 16/04/2012 22:32

Can I join too I've loved her ever since my english teacher gave us Regency Buck to read to cheer us up after making us read Silas Marner.

MaryChalloner · 16/04/2012 18:39

ooh can I join? I have this name from a previous GH thread. (I also have Leakypeg in my list for somereason).

Devil's Cub is one of my favourites, but I also love Frederica and Regency Buck. In fact I love lots of them. I have Frederica and Jessamy on my list for my next dc due in a few weeks.

I haven't read Black MOth for a while though....

edam · 16/04/2012 18:20

odd thing is, Georgette Heyers are quite expensive on Kindle. Despite being out of print for a good few years until quite recently - I used to have to go to one special second hand bookshop in London to get my fix (my Mother used to come round and retrieve all the copies I had nicked borrowed from her).

IShallWearMidnight · 16/04/2012 17:53

GH was one of DD1s factors in choosing Bath for uni too Grin [well brought up girl] Wink

pinkhebe · 16/04/2012 17:47

GH was one of the reasons I chose to go to Sussex Uni Blush and I'm still here Blush. I would love to go to Bath one day too

Alibabaandthe40nappies · 16/04/2012 17:32

Oh I'm sorry, I missed that part of the thread (stupid phone) Blush

Right, 30th April it is.

DilysPrice · 16/04/2012 17:09

Well it wasn't so much a poll as a tbf but I still think it's the way to go.

WyrdMother · 16/04/2012 17:05

Dilys Price took a quick pole up thread and it was agreed seperate thread, beginning on 30th April.

LeonieDeSaintVire · 16/04/2012 16:13

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MrsNouveauRichards · 16/04/2012 10:20

I have ordered my copy of Black Moth from the library. There are 3 copies and I am third in a queue. Come on, who else is in Suffolk and ordered? :o

Alibabaandthe40nappies · 16/04/2012 10:11

Are we discussing as we go along, or waiting until we've all finished?

tomverlaine · 16/04/2012 09:54

I was in Brighton the other day and walked past the Steyne.
And the journey to Brighton from london always reminds me of Regency Buck.

Can I join? I am addicted (have even read some of her detective stuff)

IShallWearMidnight · 15/04/2012 18:45

I was in accidentally in Bath on Saturday, but sadly didn't make it anywhere Heyer-related Sad. Did walk past the Pump Room though.

WyrdMother · 14/04/2012 13:59

Someone mentioned the Spanish Bride and how it's a bit of a hard read, I wonder if it's because it centres almost entirely, (maybe entirely, I can't remember) around real people, to me that wasn't her strength.

In case anyone is interested:

Harry Smith wiki link

His autobiography is online as well.

PassTheTwiglets · 14/04/2012 13:49

Ooooh, yes to Greg Wise!

LeonieDeSaintVire · 14/04/2012 13:36

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IAmSherlocked · 14/04/2012 13:17

Oh don't - I have those editions too and they don't half put me off fancying any of the blokes! In my head they all look like some version of Matthew McFadyen in P&P or Greg Wise in Sense and Sensibility - you get the idea!