Read about our latest releases and editors choices with links to relevant pages so you can find them easily. Books are available in paperback, ebook, and some in hardback and large print editions.
Jane Austen’s Prayers by Emma Darlington
For the first time you can read Jane’s original prayers in her neat handwriting that she wrote over 200 years ago. Jane Austen wrote prayers to read to herself and out loud to her family in the evenings. ’Prayers composed by my ever dear sister Jane’ is written on the fold and were treasured by Jane’s sister Cassandra until her death. They remind us that Jane was a deeply religious person and devoted to God. *Special Edition available Spring 2023
Jane Austen’s Prayers by Emma Darlington
Jane Austen is known as the beloved author of Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and other witty and romantic novels including her unfinished novel Sanditon. What is less known is that she was a deeply religious person and devoted to God. She wrote beautiful, heartfelt prayers to read with her family in the evenings. For the first time you can read Jane’s original prayers in her neat handwriting that she wrote over 200 years ago. *Classic Edition
Jane Austen 200 by Emma Darlington
A quiet country girl who was fond of retail, romance and dancing? Or a strong-minded woman of war, empire and business, who chose to remain unmarried, write novels and settle for nothing less than her own Mr Darcy. Jane Austen 200 is filled with unseen photographs and accompanying commentary that illuminate Jane’s life and take you on a journey 200 years after her death.
Editors Choice
Godmersham Park by Gill Hornby
The novel is loosely based on the friendship between the Governess Anne Sharp who taught Edward’s children and Jane Austen who became great friends. The setting and tone of the novel is indeed similar to a Jane Austen novel. The plot is very engaging and the characters deep and well developed. There is lots of fun and wit written throughout the novel which makes it a very enjoyable read.
The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen Flynn
The Jane Austen Project is a romance novel, set in London in 1815. Rachel and Liam are transported back in time to rural England to rescue an unpublished Jane Austin manuscript and bring it back to their time. Posing as a doctor and his sister from the West Indies, the story travels through 250 years. Once they infiltrate Jane’s circle of friends and family via brother Henry, things really start to liven up!
The Jane Austen Escape Room Book combines the characters that you know and love with the intrigue of mystery as you solve puzzles and riddles to help Elizabeth find her way back to the arms of Mr. Darcy. This thrilling new take on the ever-adored Pride and Prejudice, exquisitely illustrated by Marjolein Bastin, is the perfect gift for the Jane Austen fan in your life!
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen
This new, enhanced leather-bound edition includes all the completed novels of beloved author Jane Austen. New readers will be enchanted once they open the genuine leather cover, see the specially designed endpapers, and read these brilliant stories, while readers familiar with Austen’s genius will enjoy the introduction from an acclaimed Austen scholar that provides background and context for the works they’ve always loved.
Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley
This book is a biography about Jane Austen by the historian Lucy Worsley. She writes about Jane’s family life, where she lived, wrote, danced, and is a chunky biography dashed throughout with Lucy’s sprinkling of charm. The paragraphs are in-depth as Lucy examines the rooms, spaces and possessions which mattered to Jane and the varying ways in which homes are used in her novels . It is now out in audiobook format read by Ruth Redman.
The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner
This is a delightful, gentle novel based in Jane’s home village of Chawton. Eight leading characters, all with different backgrounds, come together in 1940 to form a society to buy Jane Austen’s cottage to turn it into a museum. There are lots of facts about Jane’s letters and treasures woven through the story, which makes it more interesting. A book about love, grief, loss, betrayal with an unseen twist at the end.
Jane Austen’s London by Louise Allen
If you want to walk around Jane Austen’s London, we can recommend this book. Louise has included maps that take to the houses, shops and theatres that Jane frequented whilst visiting her brother Henry in London. Louise Allen also has a fabulous website which covers everything from the Regency period that is worth checking out. She also writes historical fiction.
Fashion in the Time of Jane Austen by Sarah Jane Dowling
Sarah Jane Downing explores the fashion revolution and the innovation that inspired a flood of fashions taking influence from far afield. It was an era of contradiction immortalised by Jane Austen, who adeptly used the new-found diversity of fashion to enliven her characters: Wickham’s military splendour; Mr Darcy’s understated elegance; and Miss Tilney’s romantic fixation with white muslin.
Jane Austen Quickstep Travel Guide by Emma Darlington
Jane Austen lived in Hampshire all her life, and frequently visited Kent and London, the south coast, and of course Lyme. Follow in Jane’s footsteps to see where she lived, danced, shopped, worshipped, and of course wrote her novels! This book is filled with detailed walks through Jane’s villages, photographs, events, quizzes, and written commentary for you to visit in England in person, or from the comfort of your armchair. *Summer 2023
Jane Austens’ Cousin by Geri Walton
Geri Walton has thoroughly researched this book about Jane’s delightful cousin Eliza. She first came to Steventon when Jane was a girl, and she made such an impression that she inspired Jane’s character Mary Crawford in Mansfield Park. Eliza later went on to marry Jane’s brother Edward, and Jane nursed her through illness. If you are doing any kind of research into Jane Austen and her family, this is a must read.
Jane Austen & Adlestrop by Victoria Huxley
This is a well-researched book about Jane’s relatives on her mothers side of the family, the noble Leigh family. It covers both Adlestrop and Stoneleigh Park close by which inspired Jane’s novel Mansfield Park. Victoria also talks about money, the royal connection, the Cassandra name and its popularity, and the inheritance that never came to Jane’s family.