Jane Austen News

Martin Knelman H ow do you solve a problem like the three wives of Barney Panofsky? Robert Lantos, the veteran producer who is finally bringing Barney's Version , Mordecai Richler's last novel, to the big screen, has come up with the answers.

After winning acclaim for his drunken detective in The Wire, actor Dominic West's new project sees him reading from classic books including Pride and Prejudice.

Dominic West is to get his fans' pulses racing by reading saucy scenes. The Wire hunk, whose character Jimmy McNulty has an army of swooning admirers, has been recruited to read seduction scenes from classics such as Lady Chatterley's Lover.

PHENOM In our heads, in our heads: zombies, zombies, zombies. Don't blame me for taking a bite out of your brain and inserting an annoying tune in its place - once again, not long after the last onslaught of undead trends, our culture is totally zombie mad.

There's no stopping the twitterati. Two University of Chicago undergraduates, Emmett Rensin and Alex Aciman, have landed a publishing deal to twitter the classics of literature.

Three people are waiting to check out the venerable Jane Austen classic "Pride and Prejudice" from the Sno-Isle Libraries, a pittance compared with the 129 in the queue for the modern-day spin-off "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies." The popularity of the ghoulish upstart reflects a trend in teen reading habits.

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Looking to convince some aesthetically astute youngsters to read the classics? Penguin can help.

People across the world have been voting for their favourite Mr Darcy, in an event organised by the Bath Jane Austen Centre.

THE most popular book among Sleaford readers is Pride and Prejudice. It topped a poll held by Walker's Bookshop as part of Independent Booksellers Week celebrations.

A relatively new subgenre of mystery fiction is mysteries which are solved by true historical figures.

Britain's most eligible bachelor is in Portsmouth - a dark, handsome man who owns half of Derbyshire.

It's a truth universally acknowledged that a beautiful, middle-aged widow with an independent fortune must be in need of a husband." How easily the opening line of Pride and Prejudice can be tweaked to fit Musharraf Ali Farooqi's The Story of A Widow! And I am not the only reader seeing the ghost of Austen here - Mohammad Hanif's slightly ...

Would Elizabeth Bennet still win the heart of Mr. Darcy if Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice' were written today? Or would a flashier chick-lit heroine like Bridget Jones steal him away instead? Chick lit and Jane Austen share more in common than perhaps fans of either would like to admit.

The good folks at Nylon passed along a link to an item on their website about a new set of Penguin Classics covers by fashion illustrator Ruben Toledo which, according to Rebecca Willa Davis , "certainly add a stylish edge to book club mainstays." In addition to Nathaniel Hawthorne 's The Scarlet Letter , Toledo also did illustrations for Jane ...

One of the latest rounds of "tag" that has been going around the social networking sites asks friends to name 15 books they've read that will always stick with them.

Catherine Morland's life has not been the string of adventures typical of most heroines, but all that's about to change.

For The Birmingham News Alabaster's South City Theatre is not much to look at from the outside.

Tamasha's Wuthering Heights performances in Harrogate are reviewed by the Yorkshire Post : Wuthering Heights *** Following the success of Bride and Prejudice, loosely adapted from Jane Austen's novel, it was only a matter of time before one of the BrontA sisters was given the Bollywood treatment.

By Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith Quirk Books A 8.99 320 pages FT Bookshop price: A 7.19 Patient Zero By Jonathan Maberry Gollancz A 9.99, 424 pages FT Bookshop price: A 7.99 World War Z By Max Brooks Duckworth A 8.99 352 pages FT Bookshop price: A 10.39 The Living Dead Edited by John Joseph Adams Night Shade Books $15.95 487 pages The ball at ...