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The Jane Austen book sleuth is happy to inform Janeites that many Austen inspired books are heading our way in June, so keep your eyes open for these new titles. Fiction (prequels, sequels, retellings, variations, or Regency inspired) Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict, by Laurie Viera Rigler Twenty two days and counting to... Continue Reading →
The Jane Austen book sleuth is happy to inform Janeites that many Austen inspired books are heading our way in May, so keep your eyes open for these new titles. Fiction (prequels, sequels, retellings, variations, or Regency inspired) What Would Jane Austen Do? by, Laurie Brown Are you ready for an historical romance laced with Jane... Continue Reading →
The Jane Austen book sleuth is happy to inform Janeites that many Austen inspired books are heading our way in April, so keep your eyes open for these new titles. NONFICTION Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World, by Claire Harman This highly anticipated cultural biography of Jane Austen's rise to fame and admiration... Continue Reading →
Announcement of a new book Lady Vernon and her Daughter by Jane Rubino and Caitlen Rubino-Bradway based on Jane Austen's novel Lady Susan.
Monthly announcment of upcoming Jane Austen novels, sequels, or other Regency authors of note. This month includes: Selected Letter of Jane Austen (Oxford Worlds Classics), Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict, by Laurie Viera Rigler (UK release), Mr. & Mrs. Fitzwilliam Darcy: Two Shall Become One, by Sharon Lathan, Sandition: Jane Austen's Unfinsihed Masterpiece Completed, by Jane Austen & Juliette Shapiro, The Talisman Ring, by Georgette Heyer, Remarkably Jane: Notable Quoatations on Jane Austen, by Jennifer Adams, Waverly: or 'Tis Sixty Years Since (Oxford World's Classics), by Sir Walter Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor (Oxford World's Classics), by Sir Walter Scott
Arriving in the post yesterday was a new Jane Austen biography/cultural history for my review consideration; Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World. Right off the top - I love the title of this book! It totally proclaims that Jane Austen HAS conquered the world, and I am just fine with that. I read... Continue Reading →
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains." And so Gentle Readers begins the altered famous line from Jane Austen's classic novel now renamed Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem and rewrtten by Seth Grahame-Smith... Continue Reading →
The Austen book sleuth is happy to inform Janeites that Austen inspired books are heading our way in January, so keep your eyes open for these new titles. Fiction (prequels, sequels, retellings, variations, or Regency inspired) Frederica, by Georgette Heyer. Accolades to Sourcebooks for taking up the banner and reissuing thirteen Georgette Heyer novels to... Continue Reading →
The Austen book sleuth is happy to inform Janeites that Austen inspired books are heading our way in November, so keep your eyes open for these new titles. Next month's edition of upcoming releases of Austen-esque books will include my selections of Jane Austen inspired holiday gift giving suggestions, so please check back on December 1st.... Continue Reading →
The Austen book sleuth is happy to inform Janeites that Austen inspired books are heading our way in October, so keep your eyes open for these new titles. Jane Austen: An Illustrated Treasury, Rebecca Dickson If any readers are familiar with the popular Dragonolgy or Wizardology children's books that feature an illustrated and inter-active insider's... Continue Reading →
The Austen book sleuth is happy to inform Janeites that Austen inspired books are heading our way in September, so keep your eyes open for these new titles. First up is the third book in the Pemberley Chronicles series by Rebecca Ann Collins, entitled Netherfield Park Revisited. In this continuation of Jane Austen's Pride and... Continue Reading →
You would have held the memory of your friend Jane too in tender regret I am sure. - But the Providence of God has restored me - & may I be more fit to appear before him when I am summoned, than I sh'd have been now! - Sick or Well, beleive me ever your... Continue Reading →
