Books by Patricia Veryan
Patricia Veryan wrote some thirty-five historical romances between 1978 and 2002, many of which were out of print for a long time but are now available digitally. (Note: ebook editions only appear to be available in the US.) Two of her best-known series are set in the eighteenth century and the ot ...
Patricia Veryan wrote around thirty-five historical romances set in the Georgian and Regency periods between 1978 and 2002, and until recently, they were all out of print. Fortunately, over the last few years, many have been made available digitally, and I read The Wagered Widow for one of last ye ...
Although I’ve been aware of Patricia Veryan for a number of years, up until recently, her books were out of print and the only way to obtain them was to find rather tatty second-hand paperbacks. Fortunately, many of her novels have now been made available digitally, meaning that I was able to make ...
Patricia Veryan is lauded as one of the grande dames of Regency writers, and has long been in my TBR pile. It seems, however, that with the Georgian romance The Riddle Of The Deplorable Dandy, this experienced writer has fallen prey to the most simple of writer edicts: show, don't tell. Not to menti ...
Do you ever watch those A&E/Masterpiece Theater period dramas? The ones where there is lots of intrigue and action behind those fabulous costumes, and even if it’s not Pride & Prejudice or The Buccaneers, it’s still entertaining. That’s what The Riddle of the Shipwrecked Spinster was like for ...
Practice to Deceive
This is the first book in the fantastic Patricia Veryan series, the Golden Chronicles, and early on shows all the promise that make every novel in this six-book series a Desert Island Keeper for me. I read it in a matter of hours when I first bought it and now I re-read it at le ...
I've rewritten this review three times now. Trying to be fair both to the book and to its potential readers takes time when your fingers keep committing Freudian slides into the vitriolic. After all, this book was my runner-up for Worst Read of 1998. Captain Jack Vespa returns to England after h ...