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The Jane Austen book sleuth is happy to inform Janeites that Austen inspired books are heading our way in February, so keep your eyes open for these new titles. FICTION Mr. Darcy's Dream: A Novel. Elizabeth Aston continues with her sixth novel of the entertaining exploits of the Darcy family post Pride and Prejudice. (publishers description) This... Continue Reading →
The Austen book sleuth is happy to inform Janeites that Austen inspired books are heading our way in December, so keep your eyes open for these new titles. The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet: A Novel, by Colleen McCullough. When best selling author of the Thorn Birds and The Masters of Rome Series Colleen McCullough... Continue Reading →
From the desk of Laurel Ann Nattress:  While snooping about on Amazon.com tonight, I had a wonderful surprise when I discovered that the title of Laurie Viera Rigler's sequel/parallel story to her popular Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict would be Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict. I immediately wrote to Laurie who is traveling... Continue Reading →
Sourcebooks, Inc has just re-issued the classic Pride and Prejudice sequel Pemberley Shades, by D. A. Bonavia-Hunt. Originally published in 1949, this valued and quite rare book is the first Pride and Prejudice sequel to continue the story after the marriage of our favorite couple, Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy concluded in Jane Austen's famous... Continue Reading →
Check out this interesting interview with Austen-esque author Maya Slater about her recently released first novel Mr. Darcy's Diary. If you think that the title seems familiar, you are quite right. It is one-in-the-same as author Amanda Grange's recent release. The difference between the two being that Slater's version has not yet been published internationally,... Continue Reading →
Sourcebooks has recently released the second novel in The Pemberley Chronicles series entitled The Women of Pemberley by author Rebecca Ann Collins. This is the first North American printing of this novel which had been previously released in Australia in 1998, and is part of a ten book sequel series of Jane Austen's novel Pride... Continue Reading →
"Upon my word," said her ladyship, "you give your opinion very decidedly for so young a person. Pray, what is your age?"Â Â "With three younger sisters grown up," replied Elizabeth smiling, "your ladyship can hardly expect me to own it."Â Â Lady Catherine seemed quite astonished at not receiving a direct answer; and Elizabeth suspected... Continue Reading →
LAUGH "Oh! shocking!" cried Miss Bingley. "I never heard anything so abominable. How shall we punish him for such a speech?" "Nothing so easy, if you have but the inclination," said Elizabeth. "We can all plague and punish one another. Tease him -- laugh at him. Intimate as you are, you must know how it... Continue Reading →
