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• Format: Large print book - Hardback
• Released: 2007
• Publisher: Chivers Press
• ISBN: 9781405619462
• Category: Large Print Books Fiction Historical fiction
• Availability: Usually delivered within 7 to 10 working days
• Our Price: £17.99
• Author Biography: Author of over fifty books, Georgette Heyer is the best-known and best-loved of all historical novelists, making 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.
• Format(inches): 9x6
• Format(mm): 220x145
• Product Weight: 582gm

Book summary

'Mad Nicholas' to his friends, 'Scourge of Spain' to the enemy, Sir Nicholas Beauvallet has never been known to resist a challenge. When a captured galleon yields the lovely Dona Dominica de Rada y Sylva, he vows to return her and her father to the shores of Spain. But he has no sooner done so than he proposes a venture more reckless than any of his exploits on the high seas, which have made him Drake's equal and a favourite of the Queen. He will take Dominica as his bride even if he must enter the lion's den...