The Unknown Ajax: Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency romance

Author(s): Georgette Heyer

Historical Fiction

A witty and gripping Regency romance by one of the best-known and most beloved historical novelists of all time. Miles from anywhere, Darracott Place is presided over by irascible Lord Darracott. The recent drowning of his eldest son has done nothing to improve his temper. For now he must send for the unknown offspring of the uncle whom the family are never permitted to mention. Yet none of that beleaguered family are prepared for the arrival of the weaver's brat and heir apparent ... Yet again Georgette Heyer shows the qualities that made her one of the most successful and best-loved romantic novelists of her age, and why her popularity endures to this day.

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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. Although most famous for her historical novels, she also wrote eleven detective stories. Georgette Heyer died in 1974 at the age of seventy-one.

General Fields

  • : 9780099474364
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
  • : 0.252
  • : January 2005
  • : 199mm X 132mm X 22mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Georgette Heyer
  • : Paperback
  • : en
  • : 823.912
  • : very good
  • : 352