Although it is the middle of summer now in the Northern Hemisphere, you may wish to check out what goodies are in store for the upcoming Autumn-Winter publishing season. Take a look and be sure to add to your library when new books are officially released. I hope this list might prove to be handy come Christmas time when you are wondering what gifts to get for your Janeite friend and vice-versa. Downton Abbey fans are also not forgotten as they can also look forward to some new books to keep them entertained while waiting for the sixth and final series to air on television.
Description of each new book and cover are quoted from Amazon. The list is arranged in chronological order for easy reference.
Contributors: Jessica Brown • Diane N. Capitani • Christine Colón • Alice Davenport • Deborah Kennedy • Kathryn L. Libin • Kelly McDonald • Belisa Monteiro • Jeffrey Nigro • J. Russell Perkin • Erin J. Smith • Vivasvan Soni • Melora G. Vandersluis • Frederick A. Duquette
Note: Previously published as hardcover edition in December 2013
The essays collected in Jane Austen and the Arts: Elegance, Propriety, and Harmony examine Austen's understanding of the arts, her aesthetic philosophy and her role as artist. Together, they explore Austen's connections with Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Madame de Staël, Joanna Baillie, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck and other writers engaged in debates on the sensuous experience and the intellectual judgement of art. Our contributors look at Austen's engagement with diverse art forms, painting, ballet, drama, poetry and music, investigating our topic within historically grounded and theoretically nuanced essays. They represent Austen as a writer-thinker reflecting on the nature and practice of artistic creation and considering the social, moral, psychological and theological functions of art in her fiction. We suggest that Austen knew, modified and transformed the dominant aesthetic discourses of her era, at times ironically, to her own artistic ends. As a result, a new and compelling image of Austen emerges, a "portrait of a lady artist" confidently promoting her own distinctly post-enlightenment aesthetic system.
ISBN: 9781611462005
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
Format: Trade Paperback (282 pages)
Publication Date: 1 September 2015
Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy has a secret.
The letter he presents to Miss Elizabeth Bennet after his ghastly proposal is not the only epistle he has written her. In this tale of longing, misadventure and love — readapted from Jane Austen's dearly loved Pride and Prejudice — our hero finds a powerful way of coping with his attraction to Miss Bennet. He writes her unsent letters.
The misguided suitor has declared himself, and Elizabeth Bennet has refused him, most painfully. Without intending for these letters to become known to another soul, Mr. Darcy relies on his secret for coping once again. However, these letters, should they fall into the wrong hands, could create untold scandal, embarrassment, and possibly heartbreak. But what happens if they fall into the right hands?
ISBN: 9781681310008
Publisher: Meryton Press
Format: Trade Paperback (256 pages)
Publication Date: 1 September 2015
2005.
The greatest natural disaster in American history is fast approaching New Orleans. Friend, family, stranger and foe alike will meet their fates as a killer named Katrina tries to drown the Gulf Coast. Who will live and who will not?
The survivors must pick up the pieces of their shattered lives. Can the kindness of strangers make up for the bureaucratic bumbling of government officials?
Will those left in the Crescent City ever find normalcy again?
ISBN: 9780989108058
Publisher: Jack Caldwell - Author
Format: Trade Paperback (336 pages)
Publication Date: 1 September 2015
Note: UK publication
Come war and peace Downton still stands and the Crawleys are still in it.
Downton Abbey is loved the world over for its fabulous costumes, beautiful scenery, wonderful characters and intricate plot lines, but what keeps millions of us coming back time after time is the stellar quality of the writing. With each stroke of his pen Julian Fellowes seems to gift us with a cuttingly dry quip from the Dowager Countess, a perfectly timed word of wisdom from Mrs Patmore or a touchingly nostalgic pronouncement from Carson. Here in the The Wit and Wisdom of Downton Abbey, Jessica Fellowes has gathered together her favourite quotes from the complete Downton Abbey oeuvre to take each of us back to the most memorable moments from the show and ensure we are armed with the very best ripostes should we ever need to chastise an impertinent lady's maid.
ISBN: 9781472229700
Publisher: Headline
Format: Hardcover (128 pages)
Publication Date: 10 September 2015
Sweet, Austen-inspired treats, perfect with a cup of tea.
Full of hope and ripe with possibility, beginnings and new beginnings refresh the spirit with optimism and anticipation.
Four Days in April
Two letters. Four Days. Everything changes. After offering a most disastrous proposal of marriage and receiving a rebuke he will never forget, Fitzwilliam Darcy writes Elizabeth Bennet an equally memorable letter. What if she answers it with one of her own?
Last Dance
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. Mary was not. Nor was she fond of dresses or balls or parties, or any of the things most girls her age adored. With three sisters married, Aunt Philips insists she must be next. But is dancing essential to falling in love?
Not Romantic
Once burned is twice shy. Charlotte has no place for romantic notions or sentimentality. All she asks is a comfortable home and a man who is respectable and steady. But the only man she knows who fits that description pines for her best friend. Must she betray her friendship to pursue everything she has ever hoped for
Sweet Ginger
Harriet Smith has abandoned all hope of a home and family of her own and plans a future teaching for Mrs. Goddard. Things change with the arrival Rachel and Margaret Martin whose grumpy old bear of a brother might just have a taste for ginger.
From the award-winning author of Given Good Principles, Remember the Past and Mistaking Her Character, Sweet Tea short stories offer the perfect bite to transport readers back to the Regency era for the first days of new love.
ISBN: 9780692530979
Publisher: White Soup Press
Format: Trade Paperback (274 pages)
Publication Date: 20 September 2014
The path to true love is not always straight. Edmund Bingley is trying to divorce at a time when it takes no less than an Act of Parliament and even a king can't acquire one. His brother Charlie is hopelessly in love with someone he can never marry. And the last Darcy daughter is giving her living legend of a protective father a run for his money.
Can Edmund find a way out of his loveless marriage? Can the family find the missing Cassandra Darcy before it's too late? With the help of old friends, former enemies, priests, monks, Romani, American diplomats and Tibetan lamas, they'll have to find a way.
In Altman's tenth and final installment of The Darcys and the Bingleys, life has come full circle for the original clan, who has watched its children grow, make mistakes and take responsibility for themselves.
ISBN: 9781517504717
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Trade Paperback (770 pages)
Publication Date: 23 September 2014
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single guinea pig in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
It is a truth personally acknowledged by Mrs. Bennet that all five of her furry daughters — Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia — are in need of husbands.
To her mother's grave disappointment, Elizabeth Bennet is headstrong and won't take just anyone, especially not the haughty Mr. Darcy.* Elizabeth blames the arrogant gentleman for steering Mr. Bingley, one of the rare men in possession of a good fortune, away from her older sister Jane. But when boy-crazy Kitty and Lydia fall in with the wrong crowd, it is Darcy who saves the day — and the Bennet family honour — and wins Elizabeth's tiny, rapidly beating rodent heart.
This delightful retelling of Pride and Prejudice is illustrated throughout with full colour photos of the finest guinea pig actors working today. Costumers familiar with the elegant curves of the guinea pig form have tailored lush period looks. And of course, it is the love between guinea pigs that can best illustrate the depth of feeling between Jane Austen's Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy.
*The guinea pig playing Darcy struggled with looking supercilious, though rest assured, when carrots were removed from the elegant sets, the actor was able to still his nose long enough to look down it, and once he donned his summer-weight waistcoat, he made a fine and dashing Darcy.
ISBN: 9781408865514 / 9781632862426
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover (56 pages)
Publication Date: 24 September 2015 (UK) / 13 October 2015 (US)
All is fair in love and war — or is it? What if Mr. Darcy's rival for Elizabeth Bennet's hand and heart is not some inconsequential stranger, but his dearest, closest friend? How is he to reconcile the claims of loyalty and kinship with the urge to pursue his heart's desire?
ISBN: 9781514337554
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Trade Paperback (274 pages)
Publication Date: 24 September 2014
Based on the enduring characters created by Jane Austen, this is a contemporary spin on a classic tale of love denied, and love discovered. Each novella is part of the Mister Darcy series but each adventure can be read as a standalone.
Christmas just became a lot more complicated for dog psychologist Lizzie Bennet and her sisters. While shopping in London they find little urchin Annie and her dog Sammy. As a fierce snowstorm takes over the city, the aloof but alluring Mister Darcy invites the girls, including Annie and Sammy, to spend the night at his penthouse. With the best of intentions Darcy asks Annie and her seven siblings to join the Bennet sisters for a quiet Christmas Eve celebration in his London fortress. The skullduggery begins when Caroline Bingley — the villainess Austen fans love to boo — shows up acting the part of the Grinch and Scrooge combined.
ISBN: 9780986426599
Publisher: Barbara Silkstone
Format: Trade Paperback (140 pages)
Publication Date: 28 September 2014
Pride and Prejudice 2016 Read a Book-In-A-Year Day-to-Day Calendar offers a new literary treat every day and an exciting way to engage with one of the world's most celebrated stories, whether you're discovering the book for the first time, or revisiting an old favourite.
Imagine a day-to-day calendar that includes the complete text of one of the world's most famous books, broken down into easily managed and very quotable daily readings. With entries dated from 1 January to 31 December of the 2016 calendar year, the reader will make his or her way through the entire text of one novel, reading one page a day.
ISBN: 9780789329578
Publisher: Universe Publishing
Format: Calendar (370 pages)
Publication Date: 29 September 2015
The culmination of Jane Austen's genius, a sparkling comedy of love and marriage — now in a stunning 200th-anniversary Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
Beautiful, clever, rich — and single — Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protégée, Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected. With its imperfect but charming heroine and its witty and subtle exploration of relationships, Emma is often seen as Jane Austen's most flawless work.
This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition celebrates two hundred years of Austen's beloved novel. With a beautiful cover designed by illustrator Dadu Shin and comprehensive notes drawing specially from the Jane Austen Collection at Goucher College, this is an edition to be treasured by students and collectors alike.
ISBN: 9780143107712
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Format: Trade Paperback (496 pages)
Publication Date: 29 September 2014
Note: Previously released in hardcover edition last October
A thrilling literary mystery co-starring Jane Austen from the New York Times best-selling author of The Bookman's Tale
Charlie Lovett first delighted readers with his New York Times bestselling debut, The Bookman's Tale. Now, Lovett weaves another brilliantly imagined mystery, this time featuring one of English literature's most popular and beloved authors: Jane Austen.
Book lover and Austen enthusiast Sophie Collingwood has recently taken a job at an antiquarian bookshop in London when two different customers request a copy of the same obscure book: the second edition of Little Book of Allegories by Richard Mansfield. Their queries draw Sophie into a mystery that will cast doubt on the true authorship of Pride and Prejudice — and ultimately threaten Sophie's life.
In a dual narrative that alternates between Sophie's quest to uncover the truth — while choosing between two suitors — and a young Jane Austen's touching friendship with the aging cleric Richard Mansfield, Lovett weaves a romantic, suspenseful and utterly compelling novel about love in all its forms and the joys of a life lived in books.
ISBN: 9780143127727
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Trade Paperback (320 pages)
Publication Date: 29 September 2014
Based on the Emmy Award-winning "genius" (The Guardian) web series, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, this is a new novel starring Lizzie's spunky sister Lydia as she navigates the joys and pitfalls of becoming an adult in the digital age.
Before her older sister, Lizzie, started her wildly popular vlog, Lydia was just a normal twenty-year-old plotting the many ways she could get away with skipping her community college classes and finding the perfect fake ID. She may not have had much direction, but she loved her family and had plenty of fun. Then Lizzie's vlog turned the Bennet sisters into Internet sensations, and Lydia basked in the attention as people watched, debated, tweeted, tumblr’d and blogged about her life. But not all attention is good...
After her ex-boyfriend, George Wickham took advantage of Lydia's newfound web-fame, betrayed her trust and destroyed her online reputation, she's no longer a naïve, carefree girl. Now, Lydia must work to win back her family's trust and respect and find her place in a far more judgemental world.
Told in Lydia's distinctive, eccentric and endearing voice, The Epic Adventures of Lydia Bennet picks up right where The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet left off and "offers a fresh take on Pride and Prejudice without ruining it" (The Washington Post, on The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet). Featuring fresh twists, wonderful new characters and scores of hillarious texts, doodles and tweets, The Epic Adventures of Lydia Bennet takes you behind the webcam and into the lives of your favourite sisters in a way that's sure to satisfy existing fans and delight new ones.
ISBN: 9781476763231
Publisher: Touchstone
Format: Trade Paperback (336 pages)
Publication Date: 29 September 2014
Disguise of every sort creates difficulties for recent Yale grads Elizabeth and Jennie Blackwell, who are eager to begin the next chapter of their lives.
Elizabeth hopes her remarkable voice and academic training will help crown her the new darling of the Met. But will her burgeoning romance with world-renowned philanthropist Lliam Dafydd benefit her career or derail it before it begins?
Elizabeth's minutes-older twin, Jennie, plans to translate her impressive résumé into a successful medical research program, but her demanding academic pursuits leave little time for romance.
Feeling trapped by her girl-next-door image, Jennie adopts a daring alter ego who behaves as she never would. As "Ariel De Mer", Jennie becomes captivated by mysterious photographer, Chance Bly. Handsome and suave, he smoothly awakens her desires, while Ariel's sexiness and sauciness mesmerise her smitten lover.
But Jennie's innocent charade has a powerful impact on the lives of those she loves, and she is not the only one playing games.
ISBN: 9781681310015
Publisher: Meryton Press
Format: Trade Paperback (364 pages)
Publication Date: 1 October 2014
The Last Man in the World She Wishes to Marry is the One Man Who Owns Her Heart!
Elizabeth Bennet adamantly refused Fitzwilliam Darcy's proposal, but when Maria Lucas discovers the letter Darcy offers Elizabeth in explanation of his actions, Elizabeth must swallow her objections in order to save her reputation. She follows Darcy to London and pleads for the gentleman to renew his proposal. Yet, even as she does so, Elizabeth knows not what she fears most: being Mr. Darcy's wife or the revenge he might consider for her earlier rebuke.
Fitzwilliam Darcy would prefer that Elizabeth Bennet held him in affection, but he reasons that even if she does not, having Elizabeth at his side is far better than claiming another to wife. However, when a case of mistaken identity causes Darcy not to show at his wedding ceremony, he finds himself in a desperate search for his wayward bride-to-be.
Elizabeth, realising Society will label her as "undesirable" after being abandoned at the altar, sets out on an adventure to mark her future days as the spinster aunt to her sisters' children. However, Darcy means to locate her and to convince Elizabeth that his affections are true, and a second chance will prove him the "song that sets her heart strumming".
ISBN: 9781517631079
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Trade Paperback (256 pages)
Publication Date: 2 October 2014
Filled with the remarkable wit and insight of one of the world's most cherished authors, A Jane Austen Christmas gives readers insight into Austen's life through little-known stories about how she and her family celebrated the treasured holiday season.
Carlo DeVito provides an intimate portrait of Austen's most cherished Christmas memories with her family: from the gift of her first writing desk, to her first love and heartbreak, to her brewing mead and beer in time for the holidays. Along the way readers will spend a holiday in the Austen house, celebrate Jane's birthday, meet the inspiration for more than a dozen characters, attend the Christmastide series of balls and learn how to make family's favourite recipes and dedicate a novel to the Prince Regent. Remarkably fresh and supremely entertaining, A Jane Austen Christmas brings Austen's world to life as never before.
ISBN: 9781604335910
Publisher: Cider Mill Press
Format: Hardcover (208 pages)
Publication Date: 6 October 2014
Note: Previously published as hardcover format in April 2013
A hillarious mash-up of cats and Austen
What if Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice was told from a cat's point of view? On the heels of smash hits like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and I Can Has Cheezburger, this hillarious mash-up by children's author Pamela Jane and photographer Deborah Guyol spins a fresh, quirky take on two of the things we just can't get enough of: classic cats and classic Jane.
Pride and Prejudice and Kitties juxtaposes wacky photos of cats with the wicked humour of Jane Austen. Soulful Mr. Darcy gazes at Elizabeth Bennet in fascination; hysterical Mrs. Bennet yowls that no one understands her; somnolent Mr. Hurst passes out on the sofa after dinner; arrogant Lady Catherine hisses at Elizabeth. Each photo includes a hillarious caption that goes along with the text of Pride and Prejudice, told from a feline perspective.
Pride and Prejudice and Kitties is a book for cat-lovers, Austen-lovers and people who love to laugh — in other words, just about everyone.
ISBN: 9781634502634
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Trade Paperback (208 pages)
Publication Date: 6 October 2015
Jane Austen is one of England's greatest and best-loved novelists, whose works are still widely read and enjoyed nearly two hundred years after her death. Memories of Jane were increasingly recorded as her reputation and fame grew in the nineteenth century. This new book brings these memories (family diaries and memoirs by her nearest and dearest relatives), and all of Jane's own letters, together in one volume.
This is the life of Jane in the words of the people who knew her, it provides a fascinating insight into her life as a member of a close, loving family and her work as a novelist. This book also opens a window onto the England in which Jane Austen lived and set her novels.
ISBN: 9781445621395
Publisher: Amberley
Format: Hardcover (528 pages)
Publication Date: 9 October 2015
This book is a guide to speaking and writing like a Jane Austen character. With more than 1,400 of Jane Austen's most elegant and witty phrases, quoted directly from her major novels, unfinished work, short stories, juvenilia and personal letters, all placed into categories of expressional needs, with translations into the common phrases of today, this phrase thesaurus is a guide to conversing like the heroes, heroines and villains of Jane Austen's sublime body of work. This book also serves as a study into the evolution of English expression, from the late 18th century to today. Jane Austen's letters to her sister, Cassandra, were the equivalent of today's phone calls, e-mails and texts, giving us voyeuristic insight into normal, daily expressions Jane Austen never intended to be published. For the words that have fallen out of use, this book contains a glossary of original definitions, written with Austen-esque wit and sarcasm. An ocean of the loveliest phrases from one of English Literature's most celebrated writers, whose increasing acclaim has brought her elegant phrases into popular culture, is captured in this book.
ISBN: 9781621377726
Publisher: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing
Format: Trade Paperback (264 pages)
Publication Date: 12 October 2015
Load up on pumpkin spice, grab your bowl of candy and settle in for a spooky night with six brand-new modern Jane Austen adaptations from the authors of Holidays with Jane: Christmas Cheer and Spring Fever!
Must Be Magic
by Kimberly Truesdale
Eight years ago Anne Elliot made a devastating choice. When a new threat and an old love both come into her life, she faces that choice again. This time will it be love or will it be magic?
Once Upon a Story
by Rebecca M. Fleming
Catie Morland isn't sure how to explain what happened at Abbey College's annual Fall-o-Ween event until bumping into vacationing sisters Jane and Cassie. Will everything begin to make sense as she tells them the whole story?
Insensible
by Cecilia Gray
Miriam Dashwood has to throw a party for straight-laced Brandon Firestone without spending a dime. When the lead for rock sensation Willow Bee offers a free performance, Miriam figures he's her hero. Brandon has other ideas, but will free spirited Miriam come around to his way of thinking?
Emma Ever After
by Melissa Buell
Emma Woodhouse is determined that this year's Fall Ball will be the most successful one yet. An influx of single men in Highbury make a Bachelor Auction a reality. Can she work her matchmaking magic once again?
Mansfield Unmasked
by Jennifer Becton
An impromptu Halloween party at Mansfield Park Boarding House provides Pug an opportunity to use his magic powers to unite Pryce and Spenser. But can he expose their true feelings for each other before his powers fade?
Beyond Midnight
by Jessica Grey
Halloween isn't what Will Harper planned. His sister is playing fairy godmother. He's at Chawton High's Trick or Sweet Dance. He's in costume... and falling for Elena Marquez? Is it real or magic... and can it last Beyond Midnight?
ISBN: 9780692556153
Publisher: Indie Jane Press
Format: Trade Paperback (420 pages)
Publication Date: 13 October 2015
Note: US release
Come war and peace Downton still stands and the Crawleys are still in it.
Downton Abbey is loved the world over for its fabulous costumes, beautiful scenery, wonderful characters and intricate plot lines, but what keeps millions of us coming back time after time is the stellar quality of the writing. With each stroke of his pen Julian Fellowes seems to gift us with a cuttingly dry quip from the Dowager Countess, a perfectly timed word of wisdom from Mrs Patmore or a touchingly nostalgic pronouncement from Carson. Here in the The Wit and Wisdom of Downton Abbey, Jessica Fellowes has gathered together her favourite quotes from the complete Downton Abbey oeuvre to take each of us back to the most memorable moments from the show and ensure we are armed with the very best ripostes should we ever need to chastise an impertinent lady's maid.
ISBN: 9781250093608
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Hardcover (128 pages)
Publication Date: 13 October 2015
"Someday some lark is gonna spell you with a song. She'll call you with music, and you'll be as good as lost."
In the autumn of 1948, young millionaire Will Darcy comes to the sleepy, backwater town of Meryton, South Carolina to visit his best friend, Charles Bingley. When Darcy becomes enchanted by a local beauty with a heavenly voice, his business dealings with Longbourn Farms may close the door to his romantic hopes before they are given a chance to thrive.
Still healing from heartbreak, Elizabeth Bennet takes solace in her family, home and the tight-knit community of Meryton. That foundation is shaken when Will Darcy makes a successful offer to buy the family farm. Blinded by hurt, will Elizabeth miss the chance to find in him the peace and comfort her heart truly needs?
Confronting the racial, economic and social inequalities of the times, Longbourn's Songbird is an imaginative romance inspired by Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice and told through the lens of post-WWII America, a story layered with betrayal and loss, love and letting go.
ISBN: 9781681310022
Publisher: Meryton Press
Format: Trade Paperback (300 pages)
Publication Date: 21 October 2015
Note: Previously released in hardcover edition last October
Jane Austen turns sleuth in this delightful murder mystery set over the twelve days of a Regency-Era Christmas party.
Christmas Eve, 1814: Jane Austen has been invited to spend the holiday with family and friends at The Vyne, the gorgeous ancestral home of the wealthy and politically prominent Chute family. As the year fades and friends begin to gather beneath the mistletoe for the twelve days of Christmas festivities, Jane and her circle are in a celebratory mood: Mansfield Park is selling nicely; Napoleon has been banished to Elba; British forces have seized Washington, DC; and on Christmas Eve, John Quincy Adams signs the Treaty of Ghent, which will end a war nobody in England really wanted.
Jane, however, discovers holiday cheer is fleeting. One of the Yuletide revelers dies in a tragic accident, which Jane immediately views with suspicion. If the accident was in fact murder, the killer is one of Jane's fellow snow-bound guests. With clues scattered amidst cleverly crafted charades, dark secrets coming to light during parlour games and old friendships returning to haunt the Christmas parties, whom can Jane trust to help her discover the truth and stop the killer from striking again?
ISBN: 9781616955724
Publisher: Soho Crime
Format: Trade Paperback (200 pages)
Publication Date: 27 October 2015
Money is significant in Jane Austen's novels. Her characters worry about it, scheme for it and, of course, spend it. Money is not simply a way of placing people: it propels plots, adds drama and tells us much about an individual's nature and morals.
Taking the novels as his starting point, Stephen Mahony looks at the wealth and social standing of Austen's characters in relation to the economic background of the day, giving us real insight into their aspirations and motivations. What did a servant earn? Just how poor was Miss Bates? What were the pay and conditions of a midshipman like William Price? What would it cost to house, clothe and feed the entire Bennet family? And how much would Elizabeth Bennet need to live comfortably if she hadn't married Darcy?
The result is a revealing account of Austen, her characters and the England in which they lived.
ISBN: 9780719814396
Publisher: Robert Hale
Format: Hardcover (192 pages)
Publication Date: 30 October 2015 (UK) / 1 April 2016 (US)
This entertaining collection gathers together Jane Austen's wisest and wittiest quotations. Quotable Austen is a book full of sense and sensibility that's sure to delight all lovers of this great British writer's uniquely humourous and perceptive style.
ISBN: 9781849535823
Publisher: Summersdale
Format: Hardcover (160 pages)
Publication Date: 1 November 2015
Knit your way through the incredible world of Jane Austen's beloved novels, from Pemberley to Mansfield Park, and create your favourite Austen characters, including Elizabeth Bennet, Mr. Darcy, Emma Woodhouse and more with this delightful collection of twelve knitting projects from the famed craftsman, Austen enthusiast and author of Knit Your Own Kama Sutra, Trixie von Purl.
Knitting maven Trixie von Purl helps knitters and Austen fans create the world of Jane Austen like never before with this inventive and unique craft book. Featuring a high-class art, Pride & Preju-knits gathers together the best sassy heroines and brooding heroes from all six of Austen's beloved and widely acclaimed novels, including Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy, Emma Woodhouse and Mr. Knightley, and Marianne Dashwood and Mr. Willoughby.
Following the complete pattern instructions for stitching each character, knitters can also recreate scenes involving these handsome Regency ladies and gentlemen. Capture Mr. Darcy's proposal to Elizabeth, the Netherfield Park ball and Willoughby rescuing Marianne in the rain. Engage your yarn skills to fabricate extravagant stately homes, opulent tea parties, the rolling English countryside and other genteel settings that are the essence of Austen. Pride & Preju-knits also features a wide-variety of additional patterns for bonnets, breeches, lacy parasols and other charming accessories.
Each scene featured in Pride & Preju-knits is accompanied by Trixie's own hillarious interpretation, clear, easy-to-follow knitting patterns and instructions to guide readers through every stage of the project. Specially commissioned photographs accompany the instructions throughout so that readers can easily visualise every step.
ISBN: 9780062405296
Publisher: Harper Design
Format: Trade Paperback (112 pages)
Publication Date: 3 November 2015
When Jane Austen's doctor discovers the secret to immortal life in 1817, she thinks her wishes have come true. But when she wakes up from the dead, a penniless Miss Austen finds herself in 1925, having to become a governess to five girls of an eccentric and bohemian family at the crumbling Manberley Castle by the sea. Jane soon finds she's caught up in the dramas of every family member, but she loves nothing more than a challenge, and resolves on putting them in order. If only she can stop herself from falling in love, she can change the lives of them all!
Inspired by Jane Austen's wonderful novels and written in the tradition of classic books like Cold Comfort Farm, I Capture the Castle and Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Jane Austen Lives Again is an amusing fairy story for grown-ups.
ISBN: 9781519125606
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Trade Paperback (280 pages)
Publication Date: 5 November 2015
Colonel Edmund Fitzwilliam, second son of the Earl of Andover, has pursued accomplishment his whole life. His first real opportunity to achieve the recognition he desires unfortunately comes just as he meets the woman who captures his heart, Miss Emily Chelwood. Separated by months of danger and distance, even his safe return does not reward them with the happiness they deserve; peril, death and intrigue follow him home, throwing their future into the winds of chance. Aided by his friend, the adventurer Lord Estéban de Esparza and his relations Mr. and Mrs. Fitzwilliam Darcy, the Colonel must overcome a French spy, a London blackguard and his own powerful sense of duty, as he struggles with the forces of love and war in his attempt to secure happiness for himself and his beloved.
ISBN: 9780991038275
Publisher: Stanley M. Hurd
Format: Trade Paperback (324 pages)
Publication Date: 6 November 2015
A Regency tale inspired by Jane Austen's timeless classic ~ Pride & Prejudice.
Elizabeth Bennet considers the handsome new vicar at Hunsford parsonage to be everything Fitzwilliam Darcy is not. The Reverend Francis Martel is warm, accessible, and has no difficulty showing his feelings for her. Within weeks of rejecting Darcy's offer, Elizabeth finds herself swept up in a tumult of emotions for the vicar. He shares her wit, her caring for others and the simple life — so she accepts the vicar's proposal. Will Darcy recover from his injured ego in time to intervene in their marriage? And how will he separate the couple — only days before their wedding?
ISBN: 9780997007213
Publisher: Barbara Silkstone
Format: Trade Paperback (228 pages)
Publication Date: 9 November 2015
Then Comes Winter with bluster and snow, that brings to our cheeks the ruddy glow... Gertrude Tooley Buckingham, The Four Seasons
If you long for a toasty snuggle on a cold winter's night, this compilation of original short stories inspired by the magic of the holiday season — and more than a nod to Jane Austen — is fancied as a sublime wintertime treat. On the heels of the summer anthology, Sun-kissed: effusions of summer, and in concert with some of Meryton Press's most popular authors, this romantic anthology introduces several promising writers. With a robust mix of contemporary and Regency musings, Then Comes Winter rekindles passionate fires with equal wonder, wit and admiration.
ISBN: 9781681310039
Publisher: Meryton Press
Format: Trade Paperback (324 pages)
Publication Date: 10 November 2015
Note: UK release
Since the moment we first entered Downton Abbey in 1912, we have been swept away by Julian Fellowes' evocative world of romance, intrigue, drama and tradition. Now, in 1925, as Downton Abbey prepares to close its doors for the final time, Jessica Fellowes leads us through the house and estate, reliving the iconic moments of the wonderfully aristocratic Crawley family and their servants as they navigate the emerging modern age. Traveling from great hall to servants' hall, bedroom to boot room, we glimpse as we go all our favourite scenes from the show including Matthew and Isobel Crawley arriving for the first time, the death of Kemal Pamuk, Cora's tragic miscarriage, Lady Sybil's new trousers, Thomas and O'Brien's scheming, Anna and Bates's troubles with the law, Edith jilted at the altar and Carson's proposal to Mrs Hughes.
Alongside this will be in-depth interviews with the cast and crew who have worked on the show for six years and know it so well, and a fascinating look at the changing styles and fashions of Downton through the years. Packed full of stunning location shots and stills from all six series including exclusive behind-the-scenes photography from the iconic final series, plus gorgeous bespoke illustrations, this celebratory book is the ultimate gift for Downton Abbey fans the world over.
ISBN: 9781472229687
Publisher: Headline
Format: Hardcover (320 pages)
Publication Date: 10 November 2015
Note: US publication
From the moment we first entered Downton Abbey in 1912, Julian Fellowes has drawn us into the evocative and intriguing world of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants. Now, in 1925, as Downton Abbey prepares to close its doors for the final time, Jessica Fellowes guides us through the house and the estate, showing us the evolution of both rituals and relationships in the emerging modern age.
Traveling from Great Hall to servants' hall, from bedroom to boot room, we revisit iconic scenes from the show, including the disconcerting arrival of Matthew and Isobel Crawley, the scandalous death of Kemal Pamuk, Cora's tragic miscarriage, Lady Sybil's shocking new trousers, Thomas and O'Brien's scheming, Anna and Bates's troubles with the law, a parade of suitors for Mary, and all the engagements, weddings, heartbreak and happiness.
This extraordinary book will feature in-depth interviews with the cast and crew who know the show's secrets, as well as a fascinating look at the changing styles and fashions of Downton and a complete episode guide to all six seasons up to the U. K. Christmas special. With hundreds of stunning, full-colour location shots and stills, including exclusive behind-the-scenes photography from the final season, this glorious celebration is the ultimate gift for Downton Abbey fans.
ISBN: 9781250091550
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover (320 pages)
Publication Date: 10 November 2015
Can a sensible girl learn to find her own kind of sensational?
When Ellyn Dashwood's family moves to Bloomfield, New Mexico, she's not sure if she'll fit in as easily as her wildly popular twin sister, Maralyn, will. Though they're identical, the two sisters are exact opposites. Maralyn attracts people to her like bees to a hive. However, because Ellyn has autism, she's positive she'll never be considered more than awkward. That is, until she meets the totally hot Zane Ferrars.
Zane is the tall, smart, hot, athletic, kind — and did we mention hot? — neighbour who has made it his mission to uncover Ellyn's secrets. She's a puzzle he's eager to solve. However, she soon finds out he's got a few secrets of his own — secrets that will break her cautious heart if she's not sensible enough to be careful.
This eagerly awaited new installment of The Jane Austen Diaries is a contemporary retelling of the classic novel Sense and Sensibility.
ISBN: 9780996624619
Publisher: Trifecta Books
Format: Trade Paperback (224 pages)
Publication Date: 24 November 2015
Elizabeth anxiously anticipates her new duties as mistress of Pemberley. Darcy is confident of her success, but she cannot bring herself to share his optimism.
Unexpected guests unsettle all her plans and offer her the perfect Christmastide gift, shattered confidence.
Can she and Darcy overcome their misunderstandings and salvage their first Christmastide together?
From the award-winning author of Given Good Principles, Remember the Past and Mistaking Her Character, Sweet Tea short stories offer the perfect bite to transport readers back to the Regency era for the first days of new love.
ISBN: 9780692590461
Publisher: White Soup Press
Format: Trade Paperback (174 pages)
Publication Date: 28 November 2015
Inspired by Jane Austen's most beloved Pride and Prejudice characters. Discover the romance of Villa Fortuna where Little Italy collides with the country club set ... at a hair salon.
Dr. Elizabeth Fairchild lived an orderly and focused life in Los Angeles until ... an unexpected death, a questionable inheritance and an eighty-year-old Mafia vendetta required a trip home to New York City's Little Italy neighbourhood in the Bronx. After thirteen years of running from her Italian-American upbringing, Elizabeth dreaded returning to the ethnic world of colourful hand gestures, passionate arguments and living with her two stereotypical sisters in their rundown apartment above a bakery.
Her plan: get in, take care of business, celebrate Christmas and then escape as quickly as possible. However, returning to the Bronx assailed the senses like her mother's lasagna. She didn't count on Italian pastry, homemade wine, a beauty parlour and the enticement of a dashing plastic surgeon known as Michelangelo.
Will Elizabeth flee her childhood home where the foundation of faith and famiglia is so strong? Or will she stay and embrace all the traditions that once embarrassed her? Should she succumb or resist her elder sister's admonishment, "Your home is where your heart is, and we are your heart — marinara, cannolis, the church and the family! The whole shebang!"
ISBN: 9781517552626
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Trade Paperback (340 pages)
Publication Date: 3 December 2015
Whereas many aspects of Jane Austen's life are well known and documented, others are shrouded in mystery. This was not as a result of any action on her part. It was principally because of the actions of her sister Cassandra, who, after Jane's death, deliberately destroyed numerous letters sent by her to family and friends. Jane's family and friends have alluded to the fact that, at the turn of the 17-18th century, she fell in love with a person whose identity has remained a mystery. Is it possible, after a passage of more than two centuries and despite the fact that Cassandra destroyed letters written by Jane at the time in question, for this mystery lover to be identified? The answer is yes. Barrington Court in Somersetshire is one of the National Trust's most prestigious properties, and evidence is produced for the very first time that this property was Jane's inspiration for 'Kellynch Hall', home of Sir Walter Elliot in Persuasion.
ISBN: 9781781554425
Publisher: Fonthill Media
Format: Hardcover (176 pages)
Publication Date: 19 December 2015
Note: US release
Engross yourself in Julian Fellowes' multi-award winning drama with the full script of Season Three, which includes previously unseen dialogue and drama as well as two 8-page colour photo inserts.
Downton Abbey fever is stronger than ever!
The most successful British drama of our time continues to captivate viewers with its riveting storylines, stunning costumes and unforgettable performances by its cast. With Downton Abbey's script from Season Three — which was the most dramatic yet — fans can go behind-the-scenes to learn all of the secrets.
Offering readers the opportunity to read the work in more detail and study the characters, pace and themes in depth, the scripts include an introduction, exclusive commentary, full colour photos and additional material from Julian Fellowes. Readers will be given invaluable insight into how Fellowes researched and crafted the amazing world of Downton Abbey.
A must for lovers of Downton Abbey, the scripts will enhance viewers' experience with the award-winning show that continues to enchant its audience.
ISBN: 9780062241375
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Trade Paperback (576 pages)
Publication Date: 29 December 2015
Jane Austen's England was littered with remnants of medieval religion. From her schooling in the gatehouse of Reading Abbey to her visits to cousins at Stoneleigh Abbey, Austen faced constant reminders of the wrenching religious upheaval that reordered the English landscape just 250 years before her birth. Drawing attention to the medieval churches and abbeys that appear frequently in her novels, Moore argues that Austen's interest in and representation of these spaces align her with a long tradition of nostalgia for the monasteries that had anchored English life for centuries until the Reformation. Converted monasteries serve as homes for the Tilneys in Northanger Abbey and Mr. Knightley in Emma, and the ruins of the 'Abbeyland' have a prominent place in Sense and Sensibility. However, these and other formerly sacred spaces are not merely picturesque backgrounds, but tangible reminders of the past whose alteration is a source of regret and disappointment. Moore uncovers a pattern of critique and commentary throughout Austen's works, but he focuses in particular on Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park and Sanditon. His juxtaposition of Austen's novels with sixteenth and seventeenth-century texts rarely acknowledged as relevant to her fiction enlarges our understanding of Austen as a commentator on historical and religious events and places her firmly in the long national conversation about the meaning and consequences of the Reformation.
ISBN: 9781472432834
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Format: Hardcover (170 pages)
Publication Date: 28 January 2016
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Jane Austen and the Arts: Elegance, Propriety, and Harmony
by Natasha Duquette (editor) and Elisabeth Lenckos (editor)Contributors: Jessica Brown • Diane N. Capitani • Christine Colón • Alice Davenport • Deborah Kennedy • Kathryn L. Libin • Kelly McDonald • Belisa Monteiro • Jeffrey Nigro • J. Russell Perkin • Erin J. Smith • Vivasvan Soni • Melora G. Vandersluis • Frederick A. Duquette
Note: Previously published as hardcover edition in December 2013
The essays collected in Jane Austen and the Arts: Elegance, Propriety, and Harmony examine Austen's understanding of the arts, her aesthetic philosophy and her role as artist. Together, they explore Austen's connections with Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Madame de Staël, Joanna Baillie, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck and other writers engaged in debates on the sensuous experience and the intellectual judgement of art. Our contributors look at Austen's engagement with diverse art forms, painting, ballet, drama, poetry and music, investigating our topic within historically grounded and theoretically nuanced essays. They represent Austen as a writer-thinker reflecting on the nature and practice of artistic creation and considering the social, moral, psychological and theological functions of art in her fiction. We suggest that Austen knew, modified and transformed the dominant aesthetic discourses of her era, at times ironically, to her own artistic ends. As a result, a new and compelling image of Austen emerges, a "portrait of a lady artist" confidently promoting her own distinctly post-enlightenment aesthetic system.
ISBN: 9781611462005
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
Format: Trade Paperback (282 pages)
Publication Date: 1 September 2015
Yours Forevermore, Darcy
by KaraLynne MackroryMr. Fitzwilliam Darcy has a secret.
The letter he presents to Miss Elizabeth Bennet after his ghastly proposal is not the only epistle he has written her. In this tale of longing, misadventure and love — readapted from Jane Austen's dearly loved Pride and Prejudice — our hero finds a powerful way of coping with his attraction to Miss Bennet. He writes her unsent letters.
The misguided suitor has declared himself, and Elizabeth Bennet has refused him, most painfully. Without intending for these letters to become known to another soul, Mr. Darcy relies on his secret for coping once again. However, these letters, should they fall into the wrong hands, could create untold scandal, embarrassment, and possibly heartbreak. But what happens if they fall into the right hands?
ISBN: 9781681310008
Publisher: Meryton Press
Format: Trade Paperback (256 pages)
Publication Date: 1 September 2015
Crescent City
Volume 3: Ruin & Renewal
by Jack CaldwellVolume 3: Ruin & Renewal
2005.
The greatest natural disaster in American history is fast approaching New Orleans. Friend, family, stranger and foe alike will meet their fates as a killer named Katrina tries to drown the Gulf Coast. Who will live and who will not?
The survivors must pick up the pieces of their shattered lives. Can the kindness of strangers make up for the bureaucratic bumbling of government officials?
Will those left in the Crescent City ever find normalcy again?
ISBN: 9780989108058
Publisher: Jack Caldwell - Author
Format: Trade Paperback (336 pages)
Publication Date: 1 September 2015
The Wit and Wisdom of Downton Abbey
by Jessica FellowesNote: UK publication
Come war and peace Downton still stands and the Crawleys are still in it.
Downton Abbey is loved the world over for its fabulous costumes, beautiful scenery, wonderful characters and intricate plot lines, but what keeps millions of us coming back time after time is the stellar quality of the writing. With each stroke of his pen Julian Fellowes seems to gift us with a cuttingly dry quip from the Dowager Countess, a perfectly timed word of wisdom from Mrs Patmore or a touchingly nostalgic pronouncement from Carson. Here in the The Wit and Wisdom of Downton Abbey, Jessica Fellowes has gathered together her favourite quotes from the complete Downton Abbey oeuvre to take each of us back to the most memorable moments from the show and ensure we are armed with the very best ripostes should we ever need to chastise an impertinent lady's maid.
ISBN: 9781472229700
Publisher: Headline
Format: Hardcover (128 pages)
Publication Date: 10 September 2015
A Spot of Sweet Tea
by Maria GraceSweet, Austen-inspired treats, perfect with a cup of tea.
Full of hope and ripe with possibility, beginnings and new beginnings refresh the spirit with optimism and anticipation.
Four Days in April
Two letters. Four Days. Everything changes. After offering a most disastrous proposal of marriage and receiving a rebuke he will never forget, Fitzwilliam Darcy writes Elizabeth Bennet an equally memorable letter. What if she answers it with one of her own?
Last Dance
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. Mary was not. Nor was she fond of dresses or balls or parties, or any of the things most girls her age adored. With three sisters married, Aunt Philips insists she must be next. But is dancing essential to falling in love?
Not Romantic
Once burned is twice shy. Charlotte has no place for romantic notions or sentimentality. All she asks is a comfortable home and a man who is respectable and steady. But the only man she knows who fits that description pines for her best friend. Must she betray her friendship to pursue everything she has ever hoped for
Sweet Ginger
Harriet Smith has abandoned all hope of a home and family of her own and plans a future teaching for Mrs. Goddard. Things change with the arrival Rachel and Margaret Martin whose grumpy old bear of a brother might just have a taste for ginger.
From the award-winning author of Given Good Principles, Remember the Past and Mistaking Her Character, Sweet Tea short stories offer the perfect bite to transport readers back to the Regency era for the first days of new love.
ISBN: 9780692530979
Publisher: White Soup Press
Format: Trade Paperback (274 pages)
Publication Date: 20 September 2014
The Darcys and the Bingleys
The Last of the Wine
by Marsha AltmanThe Last of the Wine
The path to true love is not always straight. Edmund Bingley is trying to divorce at a time when it takes no less than an Act of Parliament and even a king can't acquire one. His brother Charlie is hopelessly in love with someone he can never marry. And the last Darcy daughter is giving her living legend of a protective father a run for his money.
Can Edmund find a way out of his loveless marriage? Can the family find the missing Cassandra Darcy before it's too late? With the help of old friends, former enemies, priests, monks, Romani, American diplomats and Tibetan lamas, they'll have to find a way.
In Altman's tenth and final installment of The Darcys and the Bingleys, life has come full circle for the original clan, who has watched its children grow, make mistakes and take responsibility for themselves.
ISBN: 9781517504717
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Trade Paperback (770 pages)
Publication Date: 23 September 2014
A Guinea Pig Pride & Prejudice
by Jane Austen, Alex Goodwin and Tessa GammellIt is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single guinea pig in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
It is a truth personally acknowledged by Mrs. Bennet that all five of her furry daughters — Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia — are in need of husbands.
To her mother's grave disappointment, Elizabeth Bennet is headstrong and won't take just anyone, especially not the haughty Mr. Darcy.* Elizabeth blames the arrogant gentleman for steering Mr. Bingley, one of the rare men in possession of a good fortune, away from her older sister Jane. But when boy-crazy Kitty and Lydia fall in with the wrong crowd, it is Darcy who saves the day — and the Bennet family honour — and wins Elizabeth's tiny, rapidly beating rodent heart.
This delightful retelling of Pride and Prejudice is illustrated throughout with full colour photos of the finest guinea pig actors working today. Costumers familiar with the elegant curves of the guinea pig form have tailored lush period looks. And of course, it is the love between guinea pigs that can best illustrate the depth of feeling between Jane Austen's Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy.
*The guinea pig playing Darcy struggled with looking supercilious, though rest assured, when carrots were removed from the elegant sets, the actor was able to still his nose long enough to look down it, and once he donned his summer-weight waistcoat, he made a fine and dashing Darcy.
ISBN: 9781408865514 / 9781632862426
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Hardcover (56 pages)
Publication Date: 24 September 2015 (UK) / 13 October 2015 (US)
The Unthinkable Triangle
by Joana StarnesAll is fair in love and war — or is it? What if Mr. Darcy's rival for Elizabeth Bennet's hand and heart is not some inconsequential stranger, but his dearest, closest friend? How is he to reconcile the claims of loyalty and kinship with the urge to pursue his heart's desire?
ISBN: 9781514337554
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Trade Paperback (274 pages)
Publication Date: 24 September 2014
Mister Darcy comedic mystery
Book 2: Mister Darcy's Christmas
by Barbara SilkstoneBook 2: Mister Darcy's Christmas
Based on the enduring characters created by Jane Austen, this is a contemporary spin on a classic tale of love denied, and love discovered. Each novella is part of the Mister Darcy series but each adventure can be read as a standalone.
Christmas just became a lot more complicated for dog psychologist Lizzie Bennet and her sisters. While shopping in London they find little urchin Annie and her dog Sammy. As a fierce snowstorm takes over the city, the aloof but alluring Mister Darcy invites the girls, including Annie and Sammy, to spend the night at his penthouse. With the best of intentions Darcy asks Annie and her seven siblings to join the Bennet sisters for a quiet Christmas Eve celebration in his London fortress. The skullduggery begins when Caroline Bingley — the villainess Austen fans love to boo — shows up acting the part of the Grinch and Scrooge combined.
ISBN: 9780986426599
Publisher: Barbara Silkstone
Format: Trade Paperback (140 pages)
Publication Date: 28 September 2014
Pride and Prejudice 2016 Read a Book-in-a-Year Calendar
by Jane AustenPride and Prejudice 2016 Read a Book-In-A-Year Day-to-Day Calendar offers a new literary treat every day and an exciting way to engage with one of the world's most celebrated stories, whether you're discovering the book for the first time, or revisiting an old favourite.
Imagine a day-to-day calendar that includes the complete text of one of the world's most famous books, broken down into easily managed and very quotable daily readings. With entries dated from 1 January to 31 December of the 2016 calendar year, the reader will make his or her way through the entire text of one novel, reading one page a day.
ISBN: 9780789329578
Publisher: Universe Publishing
Format: Calendar (370 pages)
Publication Date: 29 September 2015
Emma: 200th Anniversary Annotated (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Jane AustenThe culmination of Jane Austen's genius, a sparkling comedy of love and marriage — now in a stunning 200th-anniversary Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
Beautiful, clever, rich — and single — Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protégée, Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected. With its imperfect but charming heroine and its witty and subtle exploration of relationships, Emma is often seen as Jane Austen's most flawless work.
This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition celebrates two hundred years of Austen's beloved novel. With a beautiful cover designed by illustrator Dadu Shin and comprehensive notes drawing specially from the Jane Austen Collection at Goucher College, this is an edition to be treasured by students and collectors alike.
ISBN: 9780143107712
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Format: Trade Paperback (496 pages)
Publication Date: 29 September 2014
First Impressions
by Charlie LovettNote: Previously released in hardcover edition last October
A thrilling literary mystery co-starring Jane Austen from the New York Times best-selling author of The Bookman's Tale
Charlie Lovett first delighted readers with his New York Times bestselling debut, The Bookman's Tale. Now, Lovett weaves another brilliantly imagined mystery, this time featuring one of English literature's most popular and beloved authors: Jane Austen.
Book lover and Austen enthusiast Sophie Collingwood has recently taken a job at an antiquarian bookshop in London when two different customers request a copy of the same obscure book: the second edition of Little Book of Allegories by Richard Mansfield. Their queries draw Sophie into a mystery that will cast doubt on the true authorship of Pride and Prejudice — and ultimately threaten Sophie's life.
In a dual narrative that alternates between Sophie's quest to uncover the truth — while choosing between two suitors — and a young Jane Austen's touching friendship with the aging cleric Richard Mansfield, Lovett weaves a romantic, suspenseful and utterly compelling novel about love in all its forms and the joys of a life lived in books.
ISBN: 9780143127727
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Trade Paperback (320 pages)
Publication Date: 29 September 2014
The Epic Adventures of Lydia Bennet
by Kate Rorick and Bernie SuBased on the Emmy Award-winning "genius" (The Guardian) web series, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, this is a new novel starring Lizzie's spunky sister Lydia as she navigates the joys and pitfalls of becoming an adult in the digital age.
Before her older sister, Lizzie, started her wildly popular vlog, Lydia was just a normal twenty-year-old plotting the many ways she could get away with skipping her community college classes and finding the perfect fake ID. She may not have had much direction, but she loved her family and had plenty of fun. Then Lizzie's vlog turned the Bennet sisters into Internet sensations, and Lydia basked in the attention as people watched, debated, tweeted, tumblr’d and blogged about her life. But not all attention is good...
After her ex-boyfriend, George Wickham took advantage of Lydia's newfound web-fame, betrayed her trust and destroyed her online reputation, she's no longer a naïve, carefree girl. Now, Lydia must work to win back her family's trust and respect and find her place in a far more judgemental world.
Told in Lydia's distinctive, eccentric and endearing voice, The Epic Adventures of Lydia Bennet picks up right where The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet left off and "offers a fresh take on Pride and Prejudice without ruining it" (The Washington Post, on The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet). Featuring fresh twists, wonderful new characters and scores of hillarious texts, doodles and tweets, The Epic Adventures of Lydia Bennet takes you behind the webcam and into the lives of your favourite sisters in a way that's sure to satisfy existing fans and delight new ones.
ISBN: 9781476763231
Publisher: Touchstone
Format: Trade Paperback (336 pages)
Publication Date: 29 September 2014
Angel of the Centerfold
by Michaela RobertsonDisguise of every sort creates difficulties for recent Yale grads Elizabeth and Jennie Blackwell, who are eager to begin the next chapter of their lives.
Elizabeth hopes her remarkable voice and academic training will help crown her the new darling of the Met. But will her burgeoning romance with world-renowned philanthropist Lliam Dafydd benefit her career or derail it before it begins?
Elizabeth's minutes-older twin, Jennie, plans to translate her impressive résumé into a successful medical research program, but her demanding academic pursuits leave little time for romance.
Feeling trapped by her girl-next-door image, Jennie adopts a daring alter ego who behaves as she never would. As "Ariel De Mer", Jennie becomes captivated by mysterious photographer, Chance Bly. Handsome and suave, he smoothly awakens her desires, while Ariel's sexiness and sauciness mesmerise her smitten lover.
But Jennie's innocent charade has a powerful impact on the lives of those she loves, and she is not the only one playing games.
ISBN: 9781681310015
Publisher: Meryton Press
Format: Trade Paperback (364 pages)
Publication Date: 1 October 2014
Elizabeth Bennet's Excellent Adventures
by Regina JeffersThe Last Man in the World She Wishes to Marry is the One Man Who Owns Her Heart!
Elizabeth Bennet adamantly refused Fitzwilliam Darcy's proposal, but when Maria Lucas discovers the letter Darcy offers Elizabeth in explanation of his actions, Elizabeth must swallow her objections in order to save her reputation. She follows Darcy to London and pleads for the gentleman to renew his proposal. Yet, even as she does so, Elizabeth knows not what she fears most: being Mr. Darcy's wife or the revenge he might consider for her earlier rebuke.
Fitzwilliam Darcy would prefer that Elizabeth Bennet held him in affection, but he reasons that even if she does not, having Elizabeth at his side is far better than claiming another to wife. However, when a case of mistaken identity causes Darcy not to show at his wedding ceremony, he finds himself in a desperate search for his wayward bride-to-be.
Elizabeth, realising Society will label her as "undesirable" after being abandoned at the altar, sets out on an adventure to mark her future days as the spinster aunt to her sisters' children. However, Darcy means to locate her and to convince Elizabeth that his affections are true, and a second chance will prove him the "song that sets her heart strumming".
ISBN: 9781517631079
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Trade Paperback (256 pages)
Publication Date: 2 October 2014
A Jane Austen Christmas: Celebrating the Season of Romance, Ribbons & Mistletoe
by Carlo DeVitoFilled with the remarkable wit and insight of one of the world's most cherished authors, A Jane Austen Christmas gives readers insight into Austen's life through little-known stories about how she and her family celebrated the treasured holiday season.
Carlo DeVito provides an intimate portrait of Austen's most cherished Christmas memories with her family: from the gift of her first writing desk, to her first love and heartbreak, to her brewing mead and beer in time for the holidays. Along the way readers will spend a holiday in the Austen house, celebrate Jane's birthday, meet the inspiration for more than a dozen characters, attend the Christmastide series of balls and learn how to make family's favourite recipes and dedicate a novel to the Prince Regent. Remarkably fresh and supremely entertaining, A Jane Austen Christmas brings Austen's world to life as never before.
ISBN: 9781604335910
Publisher: Cider Mill Press
Format: Hardcover (208 pages)
Publication Date: 6 October 2014
Pride and Prejudice and Kitties: A Cat-Lovers Romp through Jane Austen's Classic
by Jane Austen, Pamela Jane and Deborah GuyolNote: Previously published as hardcover format in April 2013
A hillarious mash-up of cats and Austen
What if Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice was told from a cat's point of view? On the heels of smash hits like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and I Can Has Cheezburger, this hillarious mash-up by children's author Pamela Jane and photographer Deborah Guyol spins a fresh, quirky take on two of the things we just can't get enough of: classic cats and classic Jane.
Pride and Prejudice and Kitties juxtaposes wacky photos of cats with the wicked humour of Jane Austen. Soulful Mr. Darcy gazes at Elizabeth Bennet in fascination; hysterical Mrs. Bennet yowls that no one understands her; somnolent Mr. Hurst passes out on the sofa after dinner; arrogant Lady Catherine hisses at Elizabeth. Each photo includes a hillarious caption that goes along with the text of Pride and Prejudice, told from a feline perspective.
Pride and Prejudice and Kitties is a book for cat-lovers, Austen-lovers and people who love to laugh — in other words, just about everyone.
ISBN: 9781634502634
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Trade Paperback (208 pages)
Publication Date: 6 October 2015
The Jane Austen Files
by Helen AmyJane Austen is one of England's greatest and best-loved novelists, whose works are still widely read and enjoyed nearly two hundred years after her death. Memories of Jane were increasingly recorded as her reputation and fame grew in the nineteenth century. This new book brings these memories (family diaries and memoirs by her nearest and dearest relatives), and all of Jane's own letters, together in one volume.
This is the life of Jane in the words of the people who knew her, it provides a fascinating insight into her life as a member of a close, loving family and her work as a novelist. This book also opens a window onto the England in which Jane Austen lived and set her novels.
ISBN: 9781445621395
Publisher: Amberley
Format: Hardcover (528 pages)
Publication Date: 9 October 2015
Say It Like Miss Austen: A Jane Austen Phrase Thesaurus
by Stefan ScheuermannThis book is a guide to speaking and writing like a Jane Austen character. With more than 1,400 of Jane Austen's most elegant and witty phrases, quoted directly from her major novels, unfinished work, short stories, juvenilia and personal letters, all placed into categories of expressional needs, with translations into the common phrases of today, this phrase thesaurus is a guide to conversing like the heroes, heroines and villains of Jane Austen's sublime body of work. This book also serves as a study into the evolution of English expression, from the late 18th century to today. Jane Austen's letters to her sister, Cassandra, were the equivalent of today's phone calls, e-mails and texts, giving us voyeuristic insight into normal, daily expressions Jane Austen never intended to be published. For the words that have fallen out of use, this book contains a glossary of original definitions, written with Austen-esque wit and sarcasm. An ocean of the loveliest phrases from one of English Literature's most celebrated writers, whose increasing acclaim has brought her elegant phrases into popular culture, is captured in this book.
ISBN: 9781621377726
Publisher: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing
Format: Trade Paperback (264 pages)
Publication Date: 12 October 2015
Holidays with Jane: Trick or Sweet
by Kimberly Truesdale, Rebecca M. Fleming, Jennifer Becton, Melissa Buell, Jessica Grey and Cecilia GrayLoad up on pumpkin spice, grab your bowl of candy and settle in for a spooky night with six brand-new modern Jane Austen adaptations from the authors of Holidays with Jane: Christmas Cheer and Spring Fever!
Must Be Magic
by Kimberly Truesdale
Eight years ago Anne Elliot made a devastating choice. When a new threat and an old love both come into her life, she faces that choice again. This time will it be love or will it be magic?
Once Upon a Story
by Rebecca M. Fleming
Catie Morland isn't sure how to explain what happened at Abbey College's annual Fall-o-Ween event until bumping into vacationing sisters Jane and Cassie. Will everything begin to make sense as she tells them the whole story?
Insensible
by Cecilia Gray
Miriam Dashwood has to throw a party for straight-laced Brandon Firestone without spending a dime. When the lead for rock sensation Willow Bee offers a free performance, Miriam figures he's her hero. Brandon has other ideas, but will free spirited Miriam come around to his way of thinking?
Emma Ever After
by Melissa Buell
Emma Woodhouse is determined that this year's Fall Ball will be the most successful one yet. An influx of single men in Highbury make a Bachelor Auction a reality. Can she work her matchmaking magic once again?
Mansfield Unmasked
by Jennifer Becton
An impromptu Halloween party at Mansfield Park Boarding House provides Pug an opportunity to use his magic powers to unite Pryce and Spenser. But can he expose their true feelings for each other before his powers fade?
Beyond Midnight
by Jessica Grey
Halloween isn't what Will Harper planned. His sister is playing fairy godmother. He's at Chawton High's Trick or Sweet Dance. He's in costume... and falling for Elena Marquez? Is it real or magic... and can it last Beyond Midnight?
ISBN: 9780692556153
Publisher: Indie Jane Press
Format: Trade Paperback (420 pages)
Publication Date: 13 October 2015
The Wit and Wisdom of Downton Abbey
by Jessica FellowesNote: US release
Come war and peace Downton still stands and the Crawleys are still in it.
Downton Abbey is loved the world over for its fabulous costumes, beautiful scenery, wonderful characters and intricate plot lines, but what keeps millions of us coming back time after time is the stellar quality of the writing. With each stroke of his pen Julian Fellowes seems to gift us with a cuttingly dry quip from the Dowager Countess, a perfectly timed word of wisdom from Mrs Patmore or a touchingly nostalgic pronouncement from Carson. Here in the The Wit and Wisdom of Downton Abbey, Jessica Fellowes has gathered together her favourite quotes from the complete Downton Abbey oeuvre to take each of us back to the most memorable moments from the show and ensure we are armed with the very best ripostes should we ever need to chastise an impertinent lady's maid.
ISBN: 9781250093608
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Hardcover (128 pages)
Publication Date: 13 October 2015
Longbourn's Songbird
by Beau North"Someday some lark is gonna spell you with a song. She'll call you with music, and you'll be as good as lost."
In the autumn of 1948, young millionaire Will Darcy comes to the sleepy, backwater town of Meryton, South Carolina to visit his best friend, Charles Bingley. When Darcy becomes enchanted by a local beauty with a heavenly voice, his business dealings with Longbourn Farms may close the door to his romantic hopes before they are given a chance to thrive.
Still healing from heartbreak, Elizabeth Bennet takes solace in her family, home and the tight-knit community of Meryton. That foundation is shaken when Will Darcy makes a successful offer to buy the family farm. Blinded by hurt, will Elizabeth miss the chance to find in him the peace and comfort her heart truly needs?
Confronting the racial, economic and social inequalities of the times, Longbourn's Songbird is an imaginative romance inspired by Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice and told through the lens of post-WWII America, a story layered with betrayal and loss, love and letting go.
ISBN: 9781681310022
Publisher: Meryton Press
Format: Trade Paperback (300 pages)
Publication Date: 21 October 2015
Being a Jane Austen Mystery
Book 12: Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas
by Stephanie BarronBook 12: Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas
Note: Previously released in hardcover edition last October
Jane Austen turns sleuth in this delightful murder mystery set over the twelve days of a Regency-Era Christmas party.
Christmas Eve, 1814: Jane Austen has been invited to spend the holiday with family and friends at The Vyne, the gorgeous ancestral home of the wealthy and politically prominent Chute family. As the year fades and friends begin to gather beneath the mistletoe for the twelve days of Christmas festivities, Jane and her circle are in a celebratory mood: Mansfield Park is selling nicely; Napoleon has been banished to Elba; British forces have seized Washington, DC; and on Christmas Eve, John Quincy Adams signs the Treaty of Ghent, which will end a war nobody in England really wanted.
Jane, however, discovers holiday cheer is fleeting. One of the Yuletide revelers dies in a tragic accident, which Jane immediately views with suspicion. If the accident was in fact murder, the killer is one of Jane's fellow snow-bound guests. With clues scattered amidst cleverly crafted charades, dark secrets coming to light during parlour games and old friendships returning to haunt the Christmas parties, whom can Jane trust to help her discover the truth and stop the killer from striking again?
ISBN: 9781616955724
Publisher: Soho Crime
Format: Trade Paperback (200 pages)
Publication Date: 27 October 2015
Wealth or Poverty?: Jane Austen's Novels Explored
by Stephen MahonyMoney is significant in Jane Austen's novels. Her characters worry about it, scheme for it and, of course, spend it. Money is not simply a way of placing people: it propels plots, adds drama and tells us much about an individual's nature and morals.
Taking the novels as his starting point, Stephen Mahony looks at the wealth and social standing of Austen's characters in relation to the economic background of the day, giving us real insight into their aspirations and motivations. What did a servant earn? Just how poor was Miss Bates? What were the pay and conditions of a midshipman like William Price? What would it cost to house, clothe and feed the entire Bennet family? And how much would Elizabeth Bennet need to live comfortably if she hadn't married Darcy?
The result is a revealing account of Austen, her characters and the England in which they lived.
ISBN: 9780719814396
Publisher: Robert Hale
Format: Hardcover (192 pages)
Publication Date: 30 October 2015 (UK) / 1 April 2016 (US)
Quotable Austen
by Max MorrisThis entertaining collection gathers together Jane Austen's wisest and wittiest quotations. Quotable Austen is a book full of sense and sensibility that's sure to delight all lovers of this great British writer's uniquely humourous and perceptive style.
ISBN: 9781849535823
Publisher: Summersdale
Format: Hardcover (160 pages)
Publication Date: 1 November 2015
Pride & Preju-knits: Twelve Genteel Knitting Projects Inspired By Jane Austen
by Trixie von PurlKnit your way through the incredible world of Jane Austen's beloved novels, from Pemberley to Mansfield Park, and create your favourite Austen characters, including Elizabeth Bennet, Mr. Darcy, Emma Woodhouse and more with this delightful collection of twelve knitting projects from the famed craftsman, Austen enthusiast and author of Knit Your Own Kama Sutra, Trixie von Purl.
Knitting maven Trixie von Purl helps knitters and Austen fans create the world of Jane Austen like never before with this inventive and unique craft book. Featuring a high-class art, Pride & Preju-knits gathers together the best sassy heroines and brooding heroes from all six of Austen's beloved and widely acclaimed novels, including Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy, Emma Woodhouse and Mr. Knightley, and Marianne Dashwood and Mr. Willoughby.
Following the complete pattern instructions for stitching each character, knitters can also recreate scenes involving these handsome Regency ladies and gentlemen. Capture Mr. Darcy's proposal to Elizabeth, the Netherfield Park ball and Willoughby rescuing Marianne in the rain. Engage your yarn skills to fabricate extravagant stately homes, opulent tea parties, the rolling English countryside and other genteel settings that are the essence of Austen. Pride & Preju-knits also features a wide-variety of additional patterns for bonnets, breeches, lacy parasols and other charming accessories.
Each scene featured in Pride & Preju-knits is accompanied by Trixie's own hillarious interpretation, clear, easy-to-follow knitting patterns and instructions to guide readers through every stage of the project. Specially commissioned photographs accompany the instructions throughout so that readers can easily visualise every step.
ISBN: 9780062405296
Publisher: Harper Design
Format: Trade Paperback (112 pages)
Publication Date: 3 November 2015
Jane Austen Lives Again
by Jane OdiweWhen Jane Austen's doctor discovers the secret to immortal life in 1817, she thinks her wishes have come true. But when she wakes up from the dead, a penniless Miss Austen finds herself in 1925, having to become a governess to five girls of an eccentric and bohemian family at the crumbling Manberley Castle by the sea. Jane soon finds she's caught up in the dramas of every family member, but she loves nothing more than a challenge, and resolves on putting them in order. If only she can stop herself from falling in love, she can change the lives of them all!
Inspired by Jane Austen's wonderful novels and written in the tradition of classic books like Cold Comfort Farm, I Capture the Castle and Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Jane Austen Lives Again is an amusing fairy story for grown-ups.
ISBN: 9781519125606
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Trade Paperback (280 pages)
Publication Date: 5 November 2015
Colonel Fitzwilliam and the Countess of Sainte Toulours
by Stanley Michael HurdColonel Edmund Fitzwilliam, second son of the Earl of Andover, has pursued accomplishment his whole life. His first real opportunity to achieve the recognition he desires unfortunately comes just as he meets the woman who captures his heart, Miss Emily Chelwood. Separated by months of danger and distance, even his safe return does not reward them with the happiness they deserve; peril, death and intrigue follow him home, throwing their future into the winds of chance. Aided by his friend, the adventurer Lord Estéban de Esparza and his relations Mr. and Mrs. Fitzwilliam Darcy, the Colonel must overcome a French spy, a London blackguard and his own powerful sense of duty, as he struggles with the forces of love and war in his attempt to secure happiness for himself and his beloved.
ISBN: 9780991038275
Publisher: Stanley M. Hurd
Format: Trade Paperback (324 pages)
Publication Date: 6 November 2015
The Gallant Vicar
by Barbara SilkstoneA Regency tale inspired by Jane Austen's timeless classic ~ Pride & Prejudice.
Elizabeth Bennet considers the handsome new vicar at Hunsford parsonage to be everything Fitzwilliam Darcy is not. The Reverend Francis Martel is warm, accessible, and has no difficulty showing his feelings for her. Within weeks of rejecting Darcy's offer, Elizabeth finds herself swept up in a tumult of emotions for the vicar. He shares her wit, her caring for others and the simple life — so she accepts the vicar's proposal. Will Darcy recover from his injured ego in time to intervene in their marriage? And how will he separate the couple — only days before their wedding?
ISBN: 9780997007213
Publisher: Barbara Silkstone
Format: Trade Paperback (228 pages)
Publication Date: 9 November 2015
Then Comes Winter
by Lory Lilian, Linda Gonschior, Suzan Lauder, Beau North, Brooke West, Sophia Rose, Natalie Richards, Anngela Schroeder, Melanie Stanford, Denise Stout, Erin Lopez and Maureen LeeThen Comes Winter with bluster and snow, that brings to our cheeks the ruddy glow... Gertrude Tooley Buckingham, The Four Seasons
If you long for a toasty snuggle on a cold winter's night, this compilation of original short stories inspired by the magic of the holiday season — and more than a nod to Jane Austen — is fancied as a sublime wintertime treat. On the heels of the summer anthology, Sun-kissed: effusions of summer, and in concert with some of Meryton Press's most popular authors, this romantic anthology introduces several promising writers. With a robust mix of contemporary and Regency musings, Then Comes Winter rekindles passionate fires with equal wonder, wit and admiration.
ISBN: 9781681310039
Publisher: Meryton Press
Format: Trade Paperback (324 pages)
Publication Date: 10 November 2015
Downton Abbey: A Celebration: The official companion to the complete six series
by Jessica FellowesNote: UK release
Since the moment we first entered Downton Abbey in 1912, we have been swept away by Julian Fellowes' evocative world of romance, intrigue, drama and tradition. Now, in 1925, as Downton Abbey prepares to close its doors for the final time, Jessica Fellowes leads us through the house and estate, reliving the iconic moments of the wonderfully aristocratic Crawley family and their servants as they navigate the emerging modern age. Traveling from great hall to servants' hall, bedroom to boot room, we glimpse as we go all our favourite scenes from the show including Matthew and Isobel Crawley arriving for the first time, the death of Kemal Pamuk, Cora's tragic miscarriage, Lady Sybil's new trousers, Thomas and O'Brien's scheming, Anna and Bates's troubles with the law, Edith jilted at the altar and Carson's proposal to Mrs Hughes.
Alongside this will be in-depth interviews with the cast and crew who have worked on the show for six years and know it so well, and a fascinating look at the changing styles and fashions of Downton through the years. Packed full of stunning location shots and stills from all six series including exclusive behind-the-scenes photography from the iconic final series, plus gorgeous bespoke illustrations, this celebratory book is the ultimate gift for Downton Abbey fans the world over.
ISBN: 9781472229687
Publisher: Headline
Format: Hardcover (320 pages)
Publication Date: 10 November 2015
Downton Abbey: A Celebration: The Official Companion to All Six Seasons
by Jessica FellowesNote: US publication
From the moment we first entered Downton Abbey in 1912, Julian Fellowes has drawn us into the evocative and intriguing world of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants. Now, in 1925, as Downton Abbey prepares to close its doors for the final time, Jessica Fellowes guides us through the house and the estate, showing us the evolution of both rituals and relationships in the emerging modern age.
Traveling from Great Hall to servants' hall, from bedroom to boot room, we revisit iconic scenes from the show, including the disconcerting arrival of Matthew and Isobel Crawley, the scandalous death of Kemal Pamuk, Cora's tragic miscarriage, Lady Sybil's shocking new trousers, Thomas and O'Brien's scheming, Anna and Bates's troubles with the law, a parade of suitors for Mary, and all the engagements, weddings, heartbreak and happiness.
This extraordinary book will feature in-depth interviews with the cast and crew who know the show's secrets, as well as a fascinating look at the changing styles and fashions of Downton and a complete episode guide to all six seasons up to the U. K. Christmas special. With hundreds of stunning, full-colour location shots and stills, including exclusive behind-the-scenes photography from the final season, this glorious celebration is the ultimate gift for Downton Abbey fans.
ISBN: 9781250091550
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover (320 pages)
Publication Date: 10 November 2015
The Jane Austen Diaries
Book 6: Sensible and Sensational
by Jenni JamesBook 6: Sensible and Sensational
Can a sensible girl learn to find her own kind of sensational?
When Ellyn Dashwood's family moves to Bloomfield, New Mexico, she's not sure if she'll fit in as easily as her wildly popular twin sister, Maralyn, will. Though they're identical, the two sisters are exact opposites. Maralyn attracts people to her like bees to a hive. However, because Ellyn has autism, she's positive she'll never be considered more than awkward. That is, until she meets the totally hot Zane Ferrars.
Zane is the tall, smart, hot, athletic, kind — and did we mention hot? — neighbour who has made it his mission to uncover Ellyn's secrets. She's a puzzle he's eager to solve. However, she soon finds out he's got a few secrets of his own — secrets that will break her cautious heart if she's not sensible enough to be careful.
This eagerly awaited new installment of The Jane Austen Diaries is a contemporary retelling of the classic novel Sense and Sensibility.
ISBN: 9780996624619
Publisher: Trifecta Books
Format: Trade Paperback (224 pages)
Publication Date: 24 November 2015
The Darcys' First Christmas
by Maria GraceElizabeth anxiously anticipates her new duties as mistress of Pemberley. Darcy is confident of her success, but she cannot bring herself to share his optimism.
Unexpected guests unsettle all her plans and offer her the perfect Christmastide gift, shattered confidence.
Can she and Darcy overcome their misunderstandings and salvage their first Christmastide together?
From the award-winning author of Given Good Principles, Remember the Past and Mistaking Her Character, Sweet Tea short stories offer the perfect bite to transport readers back to the Regency era for the first days of new love.
ISBN: 9780692590461
Publisher: White Soup Press
Format: Trade Paperback (174 pages)
Publication Date: 28 November 2015
Villa Fortuna - Pride, Prejudice, and a Haircut
by Cat GardinerInspired by Jane Austen's most beloved Pride and Prejudice characters. Discover the romance of Villa Fortuna where Little Italy collides with the country club set ... at a hair salon.
Dr. Elizabeth Fairchild lived an orderly and focused life in Los Angeles until ... an unexpected death, a questionable inheritance and an eighty-year-old Mafia vendetta required a trip home to New York City's Little Italy neighbourhood in the Bronx. After thirteen years of running from her Italian-American upbringing, Elizabeth dreaded returning to the ethnic world of colourful hand gestures, passionate arguments and living with her two stereotypical sisters in their rundown apartment above a bakery.
Her plan: get in, take care of business, celebrate Christmas and then escape as quickly as possible. However, returning to the Bronx assailed the senses like her mother's lasagna. She didn't count on Italian pastry, homemade wine, a beauty parlour and the enticement of a dashing plastic surgeon known as Michelangelo.
Will Elizabeth flee her childhood home where the foundation of faith and famiglia is so strong? Or will she stay and embrace all the traditions that once embarrassed her? Should she succumb or resist her elder sister's admonishment, "Your home is where your heart is, and we are your heart — marinara, cannolis, the church and the family! The whole shebang!"
ISBN: 9781517552626
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Trade Paperback (340 pages)
Publication Date: 3 December 2015
Jane Austen: Love is Like a Rose
by Andrew NormanWhereas many aspects of Jane Austen's life are well known and documented, others are shrouded in mystery. This was not as a result of any action on her part. It was principally because of the actions of her sister Cassandra, who, after Jane's death, deliberately destroyed numerous letters sent by her to family and friends. Jane's family and friends have alluded to the fact that, at the turn of the 17-18th century, she fell in love with a person whose identity has remained a mystery. Is it possible, after a passage of more than two centuries and despite the fact that Cassandra destroyed letters written by Jane at the time in question, for this mystery lover to be identified? The answer is yes. Barrington Court in Somersetshire is one of the National Trust's most prestigious properties, and evidence is produced for the very first time that this property was Jane's inspiration for 'Kellynch Hall', home of Sir Walter Elliot in Persuasion.
ISBN: 9781781554425
Publisher: Fonthill Media
Format: Hardcover (176 pages)
Publication Date: 19 December 2015
Downton Abbey: The Complete Scripts: Season Three
by Julian FellowesNote: US release
Engross yourself in Julian Fellowes' multi-award winning drama with the full script of Season Three, which includes previously unseen dialogue and drama as well as two 8-page colour photo inserts.
Downton Abbey fever is stronger than ever!
The most successful British drama of our time continues to captivate viewers with its riveting storylines, stunning costumes and unforgettable performances by its cast. With Downton Abbey's script from Season Three — which was the most dramatic yet — fans can go behind-the-scenes to learn all of the secrets.
Offering readers the opportunity to read the work in more detail and study the characters, pace and themes in depth, the scripts include an introduction, exclusive commentary, full colour photos and additional material from Julian Fellowes. Readers will be given invaluable insight into how Fellowes researched and crafted the amazing world of Downton Abbey.
A must for lovers of Downton Abbey, the scripts will enhance viewers' experience with the award-winning show that continues to enchant its audience.
ISBN: 9780062241375
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Trade Paperback (576 pages)
Publication Date: 29 December 2015
Jane Austen and the Reformation: Remembering the Sacred Landscapes
by Roger E. MooreJane Austen's England was littered with remnants of medieval religion. From her schooling in the gatehouse of Reading Abbey to her visits to cousins at Stoneleigh Abbey, Austen faced constant reminders of the wrenching religious upheaval that reordered the English landscape just 250 years before her birth. Drawing attention to the medieval churches and abbeys that appear frequently in her novels, Moore argues that Austen's interest in and representation of these spaces align her with a long tradition of nostalgia for the monasteries that had anchored English life for centuries until the Reformation. Converted monasteries serve as homes for the Tilneys in Northanger Abbey and Mr. Knightley in Emma, and the ruins of the 'Abbeyland' have a prominent place in Sense and Sensibility. However, these and other formerly sacred spaces are not merely picturesque backgrounds, but tangible reminders of the past whose alteration is a source of regret and disappointment. Moore uncovers a pattern of critique and commentary throughout Austen's works, but he focuses in particular on Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park and Sanditon. His juxtaposition of Austen's novels with sixteenth and seventeenth-century texts rarely acknowledged as relevant to her fiction enlarges our understanding of Austen as a commentator on historical and religious events and places her firmly in the long national conversation about the meaning and consequences of the Reformation.
ISBN: 9781472432834
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Format: Hardcover (170 pages)
Publication Date: 28 January 2016
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