The Bodleian Library's publishing arm is set to release a collection of Jane Austen's letters which will provide "intimate glimpses" into her life after moving to Bath, aged 25. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-07-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Authors and artists including Margaret Atwood, Hilary Mantel and Quentin Blake have created one-off, hand-written responses to Jane Austen to be auctioned in aid of the Royal Society of Literature. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Particular Books, an imprint of Penguin Press, is publishing a crowd-funded feminist storybook, Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls, comprising 100 tales of "extraordinary women" from around the globe, including Michelle Obama and Jane Austen. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sandstone Press will publish Jane and Dorothy: A True Tale of Sense and Sensibility by Marian Veevers, linking to the bicentenary of Austen’s death in July 2017. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Think you know everything about Jane Austen? Helena Kelly invites you to think again about one of the nation’s favourite authors in Jane Austen, The Secret Radical. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
This week, it emerged that Pride and Prejudice and Zombies author Seth Grahame-Smith was being sued by his publisher to return his advance. From Julian Assange to Amy Schumer, he isn’t alone...Though he’s fallen out spectacularly with his publisher, Seth Grahame-Smith at least has the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-09-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
WH Smith has revealed a list of 100 "best paperbacks of all time" as voted for by its customers. The chain retailer asked customers to vote for their favourite paperback through social media, with “thousands” getting involved. WHS said that Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird topped the list,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
The life of Jane Austen is set to be the subject of a new film called "Jane by the Sea", based on the novel by Carolyn V Murray (Sandcastle Press). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-08-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin is releasing a boxed set of its Little Black Classics set (3rd September, £80). The set will include all 80 of the titles that were released in February to celebrate Penguin’s 80th anniversary, each priced at 80p and comprising of 64 pages. The list featured less well known titles by... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
We asked you what three authors you'd take to your desert island. You said William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, and Stephen King. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-08-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
From Jane Austen's white soup to a liver mousse inspired by 'Silence of the Lambs,' butcher and writer Cara Nicoletti explores recipes inspired by classic and contemporary book. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Following the success of Anna Todd's After series, the wildly popular stories starring the boy band will be published at the end of the year Is fan fiction something to be feared? And where did it all begin?Simon & Schuster have inked a deal for worldwide rights to One Direction fanfic.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Life is one adventure after another, and at booth 1313, Abbeville Press is celebrating some of the things that make it so: Italian cuisine, the seven seas, and Jane Austen. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Claiming famous artists operated under the auspices of modern scientific thought ignores what art is all about."Art does not have winners." This is the argument William Deresiewicz makes as he skewers political scientist Michael Suk-Young Chwe's latest book, Jane Austen, Game Theorist in The New... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2014-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
'Eat, Pray, Love' author Elizabeth Gilbert plunges into historical fiction with a creative passion in the novel 'The Signature of All Things.'With a charming, flawed heroine straight out of Jane Austen, a Dickensian rags-to-riches story and thwarted romances that hark back to the Brontës,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Transworld has acquired a novel which gives a new perspective to the story of Jane Austen's... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Crime author Val McDermid is to write a contemporary re-working of Jane Austen's Northanger... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Thu, 22/09/2011 - 11:01 Faber is to publish a new detective novel from P D James which combines a murder investigation with the world and characters of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, revisiting Darcy and Elizabeth six years into their... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Tue, 13/09/2011 - 09:12 Joanna Trollope is to write a contemporary reworking of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility as part of a new series to be published by HarperFiction. Publishing director Louisa Joyner bought world rights from James Gill at... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Fri, 29/07/2011 - 15:25 Bath-based independent Palazzo is to publish illustrated editions of Jane Austen's novels to mark the bicentenary of their original publication. The Bath Bicentenary Editions will launch with Sense and Sensibility, first... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-07-29 00:00:00 UTC ]