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False Colours

Dec 4, 2025 11:39 AM

Author:Georgette Heyer

False Colours

If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer!

'The greatest writer who ever lived' ANTONIA FRASER

'A rollicking good read that will be of particular joy to Bridgerton viewers ... the permanent glister of scandal [...] ties the whole thing together' INDEPENDENT

'My generation's Julia Quinn' ADJOA ANDOH, star of Bridgerton

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When Kit Fancot returns on leave from the diplomatic service, he expects to find his loving family at home waiting for him.

Instead, he is startled to find his alluring yet extravagant mother on the brink of financial and social ruin. Even more shocking, he is informed that his twin brother Evelyn has vanished without a trace.

It's not long before Kit realises the true extent of his family's tangled affairs; it's left to him to set things right.

But in the face of Evelyn's continued absence, Kit's ingenuity is stretched to the limit . . .

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'One of my perennial comfort authors. Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' JOANNE HARRIS

'Elegant, witty and rapturously romantic' KATIE FFORDE

'Utterly delightful' GUARDIAN

'Absolutely delicious tales of Regency heroes. . . Utter, immersive escapism' SOPHIE KINSELLA

'Georgette Heyer's Regency romances brim with elegance, wit and historical accuracy, and this is one of her finest and most entertaining ... Escapism of the highest order' DAILY MAIL

'If you haven't read Georgette Heyer yet, what a treat you have in store!' HARRIET EVANS

'Georgette Heyer is unbeatable.' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

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Readers love False Colours ...

***** 'Love, love, love!!'

***** 'Omigod this book was SO FUN. It was just pure delight and put a smile on my face more than once.'

***** 'Five well-earned stars.'

***** 'Georgette Heyer is the queen of Regency comedy of errors, and this story is one of her best.'

***** 'I love this book so much. It's definitely made my top 10 by Heyer list. And the characters! The plot! I love False Colours so much.'

Reviews

Sparkling

—— The Independent

Georgette Heyer is unbeatable

—— India Knight

A writer of great wit and style . . . I've read her books to ragged shreds

—— Kate Fenton , Daily Telegraph

The Concert is among the richest, most complex and most challenging works of his fictional cycle… Kadare's achievement is to have found once again the set of tricks that create the illusion of real life on the printed page

—— Sydney Morning Herald

He has been compared to Gogol, Kafka and Orwell. But Kadare’s is an original voice, universal yet deeply rooted in his own soil

—— Independent on Sunday

[A Man Asleep] Bleak, benighted, uncompromisingly unhappy, this is not the book to read if you already have difficulty in finding reasons for getting out of bed

—— Guardian

A Man Asleep is true to its subject and also readable...a remarkable achievement

—— Independent

Perec's fiction is a delight to all who care for real literature

—— Guardian

Two striking, clumsy, romantic studies in extremism

—— Independent

Brilliantly detailed and textured

—— Daily Mail

Tremain is the finest of historical fiction writers

—— Gloss

It's uncommonly well written, with a bountiful supply of manic energy... Would Paul Auster kill to write a book as playful, fast-paced and unashamedly populist as this? Doubtful, but somewhere there's a "Paul Auster" who might

—— Alastair Mabbott , Herald

Sparky debut

—— Jonathan Barnes , Literary Review

Benedictus takes us on a trail of the contentious highs and lows of the rich and famous in a mixture of dark humour and sharp dialogue. For Benedictus, and his valiant debut novel, more of the same please

—— Ben Bookless , Big Issue

The story of the ultimate celeb after-party, it's a knowing wink at publishing and celebrity culture - a high-concept first novel sitting just the right side of salacious

—— Elle

The Afterparty avoids smugness partly because it has more affection that vitriol for the culture that it mocks... It's very funny, but sad, too... Well-drawn characters, smart dialogue and a canny plot

—— Anthony Cummins , The Times

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