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These Old Shades
- Author
- Georgette Heyer
- Narrator
- Alexander Vlahos
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 4 February 2021
- Run Time
- 12 hours 11 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Historical romance
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
What to expect
Brought to you by Penguin.
These Old Shades is read by Alexander Vlahos, star of Versailles.
Leonie Bonnard is being drawn into a twenty-year-old feud.
Justin Alastair, the Duke of Avon, is a reprehensible rake with an axe to grind. Decades ago the Comte de Saint-Vire did something unforgivable and ever since Justin has been lying in wait to settle the score.
When Justin meets Leon, a street urchin with a striking resemblance to his nemesis, he aims to use him as a pawn in his plans for revenge on the Comte. Except Leon is in fact Leonie, a beautiful young ingénue who may just steal Justin's heart.
Can Leonie win the Duke's affection, or will his need for revenge overcome them both?
'One of my perennial comfort authors. Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' JOANNE HARRIS
'Absolutely delicious tales of Regency heroes . . . Utter, immersive escapism' SOPHIE KINSELLA
Léonie, hot-tempered and very much her own woman, is one of Heyer's best female leads[...]The novel remains a witty, vivid page turner' MELANIE REID
'If you haven't read her yet, what a treat you have in store!' Harriet Evans
'Georgette Heyer is second to none' Sunday Times
© Georgette Heyer 1926 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
User Reviews
Book 5.0
Narration 5.0
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5.0 5.0
Love heyer..comedy drama style panache.Well narrated too.
Noelle Baxter 2025-07-15
Details
- Author
- Georgette Heyer
- Narrator
- Alexander Vlahos
- Duration
- 12 hours 11 minutes
- Release Date
- 4 February 2021
- ISBN
- 9781473586239
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Historical romance
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin. These Old Shades is read by Alexander Vlahos, star of Versailles. Leonie Bonnard is being drawn into a twenty-year-old feud.Justin Alastair, the Duke of Avon, is a reprehensible rake with an axe to grind. Decades ago the Comte de Saint-Vire did something unforgivable and ever since Justin has been lying in wait to settle the score. When Justin meets Leon, a street urchin with a striking resemblance to his nemesis, he aims to use him as a pawn in his plans for revenge on the Comte. Except Leon is in fact Leonie, a beautiful young ingénue who may just steal Justin's heart.Can Leonie win the Duke's affection, or will his need for revenge overcome them both?'One of my perennial comfort authors. Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' JOANNE HARRIS'Absolutely delicious tales of Regency heroes . . . Utter, immersive escapism' SOPHIE KINSELLALéonie, hot-tempered and very much her own woman, is one of Heyer's best female leads[...]The novel remains a witty, vivid page turner' MELANIE REID 'If you haven't read her yet, what a treat you have in store!' Harriet Evans'Georgette Heyer is second to none' Sunday Times© Georgette Heyer 1926 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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