We have a special treat in store for you today. Please help us welcome New York Times best-selling author Shannon Hale. She has graciously fit us into her very busy promotional schedule and answered a few probing questions about her new Austen-inspired novel, Midnight in Austenland, and the new movie in production of her first [...]
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Midnight in Austenland: A Novel, by Shannon Hale – A Review
Posted in Book Reviews, Jane Austen Contemporary Inspired Book Reviews, tagged Book Reviews, Fiction, Jane Austen, Jane Austen Sequels, Midnight in Austenland, Shannon Hale on 8 February 2012 | 19 Comments »
Guest review by Christina Boyd Best-selling author of Austenland, and soon to be motion picture of same, Shannon Hale, takes us on another retreat to England in her latest offering, Midnight in Austenland. When the nice American Charlotte Kinder married a nice man named James in a nice wedding, later giving birth to and raising [...]
Preview of Midnight in Austenland: A Novel, by Shannon Hale
Posted in Austenesque Books, Jane Austen Book Sleuth, tagged Austenland, Books, Contemporary Fiction, Jane Austen, Jane Austen Mystery, Jane Austen Sequel, Midnight in Austenland, Murder Mystery, Shannon Hale on 13 June 2011 | 10 Comments »
In 2007 bestselling young adult novelist Shannon Hale ventured into adult fiction and brought us the enchanting Austenland – a trip to a fantasy vacation resort in England with a Regency theme. The heroine Jane Hayes gets a chance to live her “secret addiction to the 1995 A&E television adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and [...]
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