Second Impressions: A Review Ava Farmer's in depth sequel to Pride and Prejudice
Death Comes to Pemberley, by P. D. James A review by Laurel Ann Nattress
Pride and Prejudice: Little Miss Austen, A Baby Board Book a review by Laurel Ann Nattress
Jane Austen Made Me Do It, Edited by Laurel Ann Nattress a review by Vic Sanborn
Jane and the Cantebury Tale a review by Laurel Ann Nattress
Prada & Prejudice, Love, Lies and Lizzie, Enthusiasm Prada & Prejudice
by Mandy Hubbard
When fifteen year old heroine Callie Montgomery purchases a pair of red Prada pumps with sky-high heels she thinks her life will change from high school geek to A-list fashionista in one smooth step. She’s out...
Castle of Wolfenbach by Eliza Parsons “Dear creature! how much I am obliged to you; and when you have finished Udolpho, we will read the Italian together; and I have made out a list of ten or twelve more of the same kind for you.”
“Have you, indeed! How glad I am! — What are the...
Shades of Milk and Honey: The novel Jane Austen might have written, had she lived in a world with magic. Mary Robinette Kowal’s, first novel, Shades of Milk and Honey, is a homage to Jane Austen, but with a fantasy twist. Kowal, the 2008 recipient of the Campbell Award for Best New Writer and a Hugo nominee, tells the story through the eyes of poor plai...
Self-Control and Discipline by Mary Brunton If Mary Brunton’s name rings any bells, you are most likely thinking of this quote from Jane Austen:
I am looking over Self Control again, & my opinion is confirmed of its’ being an excellently-meant, elegantly-written Work, without anything...
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith We’ll confess all right up front. We don’t quite understand what the fuss is over Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Jane Austen ate our brain long ago and we have been an Austen zombie ever since, attentively working away for 200 years for her cause...
Pemberley Manor By Kathryn Nelson It is a truth universally acknowledged that one of the most romantic stories of all times must be in want of a sequel. And so, Pride and Prejudice gains another completion, this time in the form of Pemberley Manor, by first time author, Kathryn Nelson....
The Pemberley Chronicles by Rebecca Ann Collins A criticism that used to be applied to the works of Jane Austen were that, with a few exceptions (like why the militia are stationed at Meryton or the references to war in Persuasion), she incorporated very few of the stirring events of her own time...
Mrs. Darcy’s Dilemma by Diana Birchall Five and twenty years after the close of Pride and Prejudice, Mr. and Mrs. Darcy watch their three children’s romantic adventures in this short novel. England hovers on the brink of the Victorian era, but the Darcys’ eldest son, Fitzwilliam, h...
According to Jane & Mr. Darcy Broke My Heart According to Jane
by Marilyn Brant
Here’s a new novel that tugged at my heart strings and validated my belief that if the world was run according to Jane Austen, we would be much smarter and happier. Enuff said!
Fifteen-year old Ellie Barne...
Willoughby's Return: A Tale of Almost Irresistible Temptation By Jane Odiwe Set four years after the close of Sense and Sensibility, Willoughby’s Return starts off apace with a surprise visitor (no, not that one…) plans for a ball and mounting tension in the Brandon household. Marianne Brandon wonders if she has lost that ...
Lydia Bennet's Story By Jane Odiwe "I decided that as no one else had written Lydia Bennet’s story, I must." So writes author Jane Odiwe in her latest book, Lydia Bennet’s Story. Presented as a novel interspersed with diary entries, Part one of Lydia’s story retells the now famili...
Jane and His Lordship's Legacy by Stephanie Barron As the eighth book in the Jane Austen Mysteries series opens, it is July, 1809, and Jane and her mother have arrived in Chawton to take possession of the cottage in which Edward Austen’s late bailiff lived. Village sentiment is against the squire...
Excessively Diverted by Juliette Shapiro This sequel recounts the first year of Elizabeth, née Bennet, and Fitzwilliam Darcy's marriage. Many things happen in that short time; four engagements/marriages, a reconciliation, two births and a death. There are many problems along the way, but all...
Mr. Knightley’s Diary by Amanda Grange Our affection for the Rev. Mr. Henry Tilney is well-documented, but we must confess to an occasional fling with Mr. Knightley of Donwell Abbey (and have been known to sit adoringly at Captain Wentworth’s knee whilst he tells sea-stories, but that is ...
The Jane Austen Book Club By Karen Joy Fowler "We have tried to get "Self-control," but in vain. I should like to know what her estimate is, but am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever, and of finding my own story and my own people all forestalled."
A letter from Jane Austen...
Jane Austen's Guide to Dating by Lauren Henderson
One might think, from the title of this book as well as the cartoony-cute cover design, that Jane Austen’s Guide to Dating is the latest chick-lit novel on the order of The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing, or perhaps a tittering sendu...
The Watsons/ Emma Watson by Joan Aiken
I confess: I had not read The Watsons before reading this edition and Aiken's take on it. It felt very odd to be reading something of Jane Austen's that was not as dear and familiar to me as the six completed novels are.
The Watsons begins with...
Duty and Desire by Pamela Aidan In the second volume of her “Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman” trilogy, Pamela Aidan expands the world of Pride and Prejudice from Jane Austen’s preferred “3 or 4 families in a country village,” sending her hero into the glittering world of Engl...
Mr Darcy, Vampyre by Amanda Grange When Lady Catherine de Bourgh tells Elizabeth Bennet that Mr. Darcy comes from an ancient family…well, she isn’t just being a snob.
The beginning of the newlywed Darcys’ life together, in which Mr. Darcy takes advantage of the Peace of Amien...
Mr. Darcy’s Secret by Jane Odiwe
“With little exception, the anticipation of a long awaited and desirous event will always give as much, if not more pleasure, than the diversion itself. Morever, it is a certain truth that no matter how gratifying such an occasion may prove ...
The Way of the World/Mr. Darcy’s Daughters by Elizabeth Aston Just imagine Fitzwilliam Darcy, who had been openly critical of Mr. Bennet’s parenting skills, saddled with five headstrong daughters of marriageable age, or close to it. Further imagine that Mr. and Mrs. Darcy have been called to Constantinople on a...
Sourcebooks Landmark presents A Darcy Christmas, a collection of three Christmas-themed short stories set in the world of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. The contributing authors are the talented Amanda Grange, Sharon Lathan and Carolyn Eberhart.
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Captain Wentworth’s Diary by Amanda Grange When one feels that one’s support of Jane Austen paraliterature is a hopeless business as the genre has become a quagmire of revolting twaddle written by people who think Jane Austen was a sweet little spinster penning pretty romances, it is a real r...
Wickham’s Diary by Amanda Grange Wickham’s Diary
by Amanda Grange
George Wickham is a bad man. Let’s get that out of the way right up front. He is vain, self-centered, and doesn’t seem to care how many lives he destroys as he seeks personal gain. Why would we want to read his...
Jane Austen in Boca By Paula Marantz Cohen
Reviewed by Shannon Bloomstran
Jane Austen's classic novel PRIDE AND PREJUDICE begins with the oft-repeated line, "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of...
An Assembly Such as This Book One of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman
by Pamela Aidan
This book is the first of a trilogy that promises to take the reader through the events of Pride and Prejudice from Mr. Darcy's point of view, the first volume ending as Mr. Bingley and his pa...
The Jane Austen Mysteries The Jane Austen Mysteries series by Stephanie Barron feature Jane Austen as an amateur detective, presented as entries in journals recently "discovered" in the basement of an old house previously owned by one of Jane's relatives. Some Janeites might re...
Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict & Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler
Jane and the Madness of Lord Byron: Being a Jane Austen Mystery, by Stephanie Barron
Dearest Cousin Jane: A Jane Austen Novel by Jill Pitkeathley
The Perfect Bride for Mr. Darcy / Searching for Pemberley Two alternate tellings of P&P by Mary Lydon Simonsen
Persuading Annie A review of Melissa Nathans' engaging update of Persuasion.
