Books like The Unknown Ajax
12 books with a reading profile close to The Unknown Ajax by Georgette Heyer. Practical, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.
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The Grand Sophy
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, entertainment
Set during the English Regency, the story follows Sophy Stanton-Lacy as she arrives at Berkeley Square to stay with her aunt, Lady Ombersley.
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4 Blondes
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, entertainment
Four novellas follow four women in Manhattan, each a blonde in her own style, living through the city's rituals of dating, status and ambition.
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Big Girl Panties
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, entertainment
Holly Brennan is a recent widow, in her thirties, who is overweight and unhappy.
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When It's Real
by Erin Watt
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, entertainment
Oakley Ford is a nineteen-year-old pop star whose reputation for hard partying and creative stagnation threatens his music career.
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Ain't She Sweet?
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, entertainment
Sugar Beth Carey was once the queen of the high school in Parrish, Mississippi, a cruel beauty who tormented the local kids.
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Come Sundown
by Nora Roberts
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, entertainment
Bodine Longbow manages the day-to-day operations of her family’s luxury resort ranch in Montana, balancing profit margins and staff logistics.
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Black Hills
by Nora Roberts
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, entertainment
Lil Chance and Cooper Sullivan first met as children on the vast South Dakota ranch owned by Lil’s family.
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The Secret of Chimneys
Also practical and clear-cut · entertainment, classic literature
Anthony Cade, an adventurer working in South Africa, accepts a commission to deliver a memoir and a set of letters to London.
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Sex and Vanity
by Kevin Kwan
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, entertainment
Lucie Churchill is a young woman with a Chinese mother and a white American father, who spends her time among Manhattan's wealthy.
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Also practical and clear-cut · entertainment, classic literature
Set during the Reign of Terror in 1792, the plot follows a mysterious English vigilante known as the Scarlet Pimpernel, who leads a secret society to rescue French aristocrats from the guillotine.
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The Murder at the Vicarage
Also practical and clear-cut · entertainment, classic literature
Colonel Lucius Protheroe, a magistrate universally disliked in the village of St.
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Lipstick Jungle
Also practical and clear-cut · romance, entertainment
Victory, Wendy, and Nico are three high-ranking professional women navigating the competitive social and corporate hierarchies of Manhattan.
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