Georgette Heyer ONLY book club...

[LadyDamerel]

...could we start one?

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

Ooh, that looks like a great place, IShall. I will add it to the itinerary of my Grand Tour Darn Sarf.

May I join too please? I've loved GH all my life, even have a few first editions as well as very tatty paperbacks. Agree with everything Willow said about characters, love GH's wit and attention to detail.

My favourites change as I get older. Devil's Cub is definitely top 3 still. And Frederica. And maybe the Unknown Ajax.

And which one had Serena in it? And Rotherham?

Bath Tangle, Ree. I re-read it a couple of nights ago.

Tis my millionth (approx) re-read. Have them all, plus most of her Detective ones.

The new biography is most definitely worth reading: loads and loads of new material (as compared with Jane Aiken Hodge, who wrote the most fantastic biog but on very slender material). My only real problem was almost the opposite of the poster above: there were a number of assertions made about Heyer for which no supporting evidence was presented (mostly about sexual matters). Jennifer Kloester is a Massive Fan, though, and I heard her enthuse at the GH conference in Cambridge a couple of years ago.

Georgette Heyer Book Club, yes please.

Cousin Kate sounds good, I've just found a mint 1968 hardback copy in a charity shop, looks like it's never been read and that's just criminal.

Though I will be reading it very carefully and not in the bath as I usually do .

Please may I join? I adore GH.

I have a kindle so I can buy them all.

My favourites are Venetia, Regency Buck and A Civil Contract.

I'm in (though not mad keen on Cousin Kate tbh).

I do London GH location spotting, especially in St James St, partly based on JK's book about her locations, (which was very poorly written I thought - put me off reading her biography).

Marking my place for update on first book.

What if we read the one which was written first? I don't know which one that was tho and just read them in order? Then we will get to all the favourites buy in a fair way?

Ah, the black moth was the first she wrote

Another big fan here . Grand sophy is favourite but like most of them. Is there an actual first choice to read yet?

Date order works for me. Black Moth is kind of rubbish, but in an interesting way that gives us lots to talk about.

I've never read any of the detective ones!

So, whend we start?

I'd suggest reading everything which happens later than 1700, in order of publication, and I'd be up for including all the detective novels in print as well, but maybe other people don't fancy them.

I have read The Great Roxburgh And Instead of the Thorn, which is rather an odd novel set and written in the early 1920s about a woman who gets married young and is freaked out by sex.

TBH I wouldn't particularly recommend either of them, and in my view the first few and last few books GH wrote are not very good (Powder and Patch, The Masqueraders etc are pretty ropey too... and I hated Cousin Kate, it's the only one I could never reread, but perhaps I'm in a minority here). She really got into her stride in the late 1920s with Devil's Cub, Regency Buck etc.

id be happy to read detective ones too.

I'm happy to read any and all and in any order, though the detective ones can be hard work to find (I'd have to pre-order them from the library other than the three I found in Charity shops) and I agree the quality is variable, I've found (for example) April Lady almost impossible to re-read.

I'm still game though.

Cousin Kate was the first I ever read as my mum had a copy and I have a lurking fondness for it for that reason, but it isn't my favorite.

I got all the detective novels from the book people about a year ago - sadly they no longer have them

Leonie is that the detective ones?