You all know how much I love Georgette Heyer, having started off with The Talisman Ring when I was fourteen and then working my way through her entire canon. Last year I read them all over again, many of which I had not looked at for a long time and re-discovered my love for these books.
Sourcebooks in the US are reprinting all of the Heyer novels. They have been out of print in America for a long time and, while they have always been available over here, there is an untapped market of possible Heyerites across the pond waiting to be introduced to her world. I have quite a few of the Sourcebooks editions which I think are far superior to the recent reprints of her books here in the UK, which were full of typos and not very good quality paper. The American editions are lovely but sadly I cannot have any more to review outside of the US because of complications which I will not bore you with.
No matter. Over on Austen Prose we have a month celebrating her life and her works and every single book is being reviewed by a blogger and/or fan of Georgette. I am proud to be contributing and taking part and I will be reviewing An Infamous Army, a quite brilliant book which shows off Heyer's total immersion into research and pinpoint accuracy in her description of the Battle of Waterloos, and also A Civil Contract, which after years of dithering and reading I have decided is my favourite of all of her works.
So a wonderful opportunity to read reviews of every single book in one place and to make your choice as to where you will start if you have never read any of Georgette Heyer before. You will not necessarily like all of them, and I certainly would not recommend that you start at No 1 as listed and read your way through them, her middle period of writing when she was at the height of her powers, is far and away the best, but this is an excellent venture and must be such fun and delight to all Heyer fans of which I am most definitely one.
