Another year – another plethora of Austen inspired sequels, re-tellings, mash-ups and nonfiction fare devoured!
In 2009 we saw zombies invade Pride and Prejudice hungry for more brains and ascending the best seller lists for months, Mr. Darcy go paranormal in a way we could never have imagined before with Mr. Darcy Vampyre, and Jane Austen [...]
Archive for the ‘Austen Book Sleuth’ Category
My Top 20 Favorite Austenesque Books of 2009
Posted in Austen Book Reviews, Austen Book Sleuth, tagged Austen Sequels, Austenesque, Book Reviews, Jane Austen on 2 January 2010 | 15 Comments »
My Christmas Loot
Posted in Austen Book Sleuth, tagged Amanda Vickery, At Home in Georgian England, Botanical Illustration, Inspector Lewis, Jane Austen, Les Roses, Mary Miers, Pierre-Joseph Redoute, Regency architecture, Regency homes, The English Country House, The Roses on 27 December 2009 | 17 Comments »
So, I intimated that I had been a good girl this year and Santa listened. Even though the Pride and Prejudice Film Location tour did not materialize, books and DVD’s did, which I am happy to share. Not bragging here, just looking forward to many hours of reading and viewing enjoyment.
And in this corner weighing [...]
Sanditon, Austen’s last unfinished work is haute at LibraryThing
Posted in Austen Book Sleuth, Austen Editions, Austen's Oeuvre, Minor Works, tagged British literature, Fiction, Hesperus Press, Jane Austen, LibraryThing, Sanditon on 17 December 2009 | 11 Comments »
This was a happy discovery indeed. LibraryThing lists the most requested new title among their December 2009 Early Reviewers choices as Sanditon, Austen’s last and unfinished novel!
Early Reviewers is a service for LibraryThing members who want to receive free advance copies of books in exchange for a review on their blog. To date, this new [...]
Vampire Darcy’s Desire: A Pride and Prejudice Adaptation, by Regina Jeffers – An Excerpt
Posted in Austen Book Sleuth, tagged Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Regina Jeffers, Vampire, Vampire Darcy's Desire on 24 November 2009 | 12 Comments »
Last June I posted a preview of Darcy’s Hunger, a new Pride and Prejudice retelling of Jane Austen’s famous love story with a vampire theme. Since then, the book has gone through a ‘turning’ so to speak with a new cover, an earlier release date of October 1st, 2009 and complete name change to Vampire [...]
Jane Bites Back – An Excerpt
Posted in Austen Book Sleuth, tagged Austen Paranormal, Jane Austen, Jane Bites Back, Micael Thomas Ford, Vampires on 14 November 2009 | 8 Comments »
Jane Bites Back by Michael Thomas Ford, a new Jane Austen contemporary vampire novel will be released for sale on 29 December 2009. Vic and I have both chatted about this book before on Jane Austen Today: first when the initial sale was announced in June of 2008, and recently in September when the cover [...]
Dawn of the Dreadfuls – Prequel to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Rises from the Grave
Posted in Austen Book Sleuth, tagged Dawn of the Dreadfuls, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies on 4 November 2009 | 11 Comments »
Quirk Books, the literary monster mash-up mogul who brought us Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monster has announced that its third book for Quirk Classics will be Dawn of the Dreadfuls, a prequel to its New York Times bestseller Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Here is the publisher’s description:
In [...]
Collector’s Library Re-issues Jane Austen Classics
Posted in Austen Book Sleuth, Austen Editions, tagged Books, Collector's Library, Emma, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility on 2 October 2009 | 6 Comments »
Great news for Jane Austen readers and book collectors. The Collector’s Library, a UK publisher has re-issued their popular and distinctive editions of Jane Austen’s six major novels. These compact 5.9 x 4 inch volumes are beautifully designed for easy handling and include these great features:
Full-cloth hardcover bindings
Ribbon markers
Head and tail bands
Gilt edges
Classic illustrations by Hugh [...]
BBAW Begins: My Favorite Book Blogs to Brag About
Posted in Austen Book Sleuth, BBAW, tagged BBAW, Book Blogger Appreciation Week, Bookbath, Historical Fiction blog, Jane Austen's World, Love Passion Romance bog, Write Meg on 14 September 2009 | 5 Comments »
Book Blogger Appreciation Week 2009 begins today September 14th and runs through the 18th. It is an annual event set aside in celebration of the online book blogging community and recognition all those hard working book readers/bloggers. You can read my initial announcement for all the details. Here are few blogs that did not make [...]
Austen Book Sleuth: New Books in the Queue for September
Posted in Austen Book Sleuth, tagged A Simple Story, According to Jane, Books, Chamein Canton, Collector's Library Editions, Darcy and Anne, Darcy's Temptation, Elizabeth Inchbald, Hugh Thomson, Jane Austen: The Complete Novels, Judith Brocklehurst, Lord Byron, Lord Byron Selected Poetry, Marilyn Brant, Mona Scheuermann, Murder at Longbourn, My Cousin Caroline, Oxford World's Classics, Reading Jane Austen, Rebecca Collins, Regina Jeffers, Sense and Sensibility (1971), The Pemberley Chronicles, Tracy Kiely, Waiting for Mr. Darcy on 1 September 2009 | 6 Comments »
The Jane Austen book sleuth is happy to inform Janeites that many Austen inspired books are heading our way in September, so keep your eyes open for these new titles.
Fiction (prequels, sequels, retellings, variations, or Regency inspired)
According To Jane, by Marilyn Brant
Here is a bright new face on the Austen sequel/inspiration market. In this contemporary [...]
Austenprose Nominated for 4 BBAW Awards
Posted in Austen Book Sleuth, BBAW, tagged Book Blooger Appreciation Week on 29 August 2009 | 9 Comments »
Nothing like tooting your own horn, *blush*, but Austenprose has been nominated for four Book Blogger Appreciation Week awards. Here are the categories and their descriptions:
Best History/Historical Fiction Blog – This blog features the best reviews and specialized content on books about a time gone by.
Best Specialized Blog – Cookbooks? Baseball history? Books written by people who [...]
A New Haute Couture Pride and Prejudice Cover by Fashion Illustrator Reuben Toledo
Posted in Austen Book Sleuth, Austen Editions, tagged Book covers, Emily Bronte, Fiction, Jane Austen, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Penguin Couture Classics, Pride and Prejudice, Rueben Toledo, The Scarlet Letter, Wuthering Heights on 27 August 2009 | 7 Comments »
I think that Jane Austen just might approve of this new cover design that fashion illustrator Rueben Toledo has created for her novel Pride and Prejudice. Her fondness for finery is confirmed in her letters to her sister Cassandra as she chats about her shopping expeditions to linen-drapers, silk-mercer’s and milliners in London and Bath, [...]
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New Austen Inspired Book
JANE BITES BACK
by Michael Thomas Ford
Nearly two hundred years after her reputed death in 1817, Jane Austen is actually not dead, but a vampire living in upper-state New York. As the owner of Flyleaf Books she watches with irritation and frustration as other less talented writers make a killing off her novels with sequels, spin-offs and absurd self help books while her own novel remains unpublished after two hundred years and 116 rejections. Her quiet life will change dramatically when her book is finally published and a dark man from her past reappears.
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Hold on to your bonnets! The new 2010 season begins December 20th with an encore presentation of Cranford and continues with a smashing lineup highlighted by Emma 2009, Northanger Abbey 2007 and Persuasion 2007. Check out the complete season at their great website.
MASTERPIECE CLASSIC New Austen Exhibit
A WOMAN'S WIT:
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Visit the new Jane Austen exhibition November 6, 2009 through March 14, 2010 at the Morgan Library in New York City. Featured are several of Jane Austen's letters, manuscripts of The Watsons and Lady Susan, and extensive support material including information on her contemporaries, images of artwork from the era, vintage novels and a new film interviewing contemporary writers, actors and artists on Austen's enduring legacy.
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Discover news and discussion on movies, print, sequels, web and blog sites and other modern day media about Jane Austen with a fun fresh approach! New Austen Inspired Book
WILLOUGHBY'S RETURN
by Jane Odiwe
Three years after the close of Sense and Sensibility Marianne Brandon appears to have everything that a young married woman could desire: wealth, position, an heir and a loving husband, but her insecurities, jealousy and impetuous nature rob her of complete happiness. Enter John Willoughby, her first lost love to tempt her into a renewed relationship. Marianne's younger sister Margaret also has her own romantic drama that might equal Marianne's dilemma. Will a young lady find love, and a married one realize it?
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New Austen Inspired Book
A TRUTH UNIVERSALLY
ACKNOWLEDGED: 33 GREAT
WRITERS ON WHY WE
READ JANE AUSTEN
edited by Susannah Carson
Thirty-three contemporary and classic writers from the last century reveal why we are compelled to read the works of Jane Austen after nearly two hundred years. From author Virginia Woolf to screenwriter and director Amy Heckerling, what unfolds is a compelling and insightful collection of views on Austen's endurling appeal and why we read her.
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The romance of Emma, Lady Hamilton and Lord Horatio Nelson might just be the most infamous romance of the Napoleonic age. She was an reputedly beguiling beauty and he a brilliant naval hero, both married to others, yet scandalously engaging in an love affair that shaped history. This 1941 movie staring Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier as the two ill-fated lovers has just been re-issued on DVD by Criterion Collection and may be one of my favorite romantic movies short of Pride and Prejudice.
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One of the lesser known works, Lady Susan just might be the sleeper novel of Jane Austen's oeuvre. Meet Lady Susan, the "Mistress of deceit," who is tagged the most "acomplished coquette in England" by society, and for good reason. She flirts with married men and steals other ladies beaux right under their noses, all without a whiff of conscience. Written in Austen's late teens, it's unguarded and exhuberant style is highly memlodramatic and outrageously fun.
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LOST IN AUSTEN
A new four part television mini-series based on Jane Austen's famous novel Pride and Prejudice aired in the UK in September 2008 to mixed critical reception. I liked it! You can read all four of my reviews on each episode by following the links listed below.
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