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Masterpiece Mystery: Mrs. McGinty’s Dead

Posted in Masterpiece Mystery, tagged , , , , on 29 June 2009 |

Who would want to bludgeon to death a humble country charwoman? Suspicions lead Superintendent Spence (Richard Hope) to conclude that her dodgy tenant James Bentley (Joe Absolom) who has fallen on hard times was motivated by theft to commit the crime. After Bentley is convicted and sentenced to die by the gallows, things still do [...]

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Love, Lies and Lizzie, by Rosie Rushton – A Review

Posted in Austenesque Books, Book Reviews, Jane Austen Contemporary Inspired Book Reviews, Young Adult Fiction Book Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on 27 June 2009 | 16 Comments »

In her fourth book in the Jane Austen in the 21st-century series for young adult readers, (and some older adults who are forever young at heart), author Rosie Rushton tackles Jane Austen’s most famous novel, Pride and Prejudice, retelling the story with a contemporary twist. Her teenage Lizzie Bennet and sisters are still hunting for [...]

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Darcy’s Hunger: A Vampire Retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, by Regina Jeffers – A Preview

Posted in Austenesque Books, Jane Austen Book Sleuth, tagged , , , , , , , , , on 24 June 2009 | 11 Comments »

Even more vampires in the queue for Janeites. After we reported last week about Mr. Darcy, Vampyre and The Imortal Jane, we are pleased to announce arriving this December from the author of Darcy’s Passions and Darcy’s Temptation is Darcy’s Hunger: A Vampire Retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. This vampire twist on the classic [...]

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Masterpiece Mystery: Cat Among Pigeons Sings Like a Canary

Posted in Masterpiece Mystery, tagged , , on 22 June 2009 | 5 Comments »

Agatha Christie mystery fans were dancing on tabletops across America tonight, when David Suchet returned as their favorite fastidious Belgian super sleuth Hercule Poirot, in Masterpiece Mystery’s opening episode of Six By Agatha – Hercule Poirot: Cat Among Pigeons on PBS. It was more than worth the wait for this long time Masterpiece Mystery fan. What [...]

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Elizabeth Bennet: “As delightful a character as ever appeared in print.”

Posted in Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , , on 19 June 2009 | 7 Comments »

“I must confess that I think her as delightful a character as ever appeared in print, and how I shall be able to tolerate those who do not like her at least, I do not know”. Jane Austen in a letter to her sister Cassandra, 29 January 1813  Now considered one of the most popular [...]

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An Interview with Maya Slater, Author of The Private Diary of Mr. Darcy

Posted in Austenesque Authors, tagged , , , , , , on 17 June 2009 | 30 Comments »

Author Maya Slater has joined us today to chat about her book The Private Diary of Mr. Darcy which has just been released in the US. First published in the UK as Mr. Darcy’s Diary, the novel is a mirror to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and told from Mr. Darcy’s perspective. This slant is [...]

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