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• Jane Austen in the World - Engin Inel Holmstrom, Pride and Prejudice with a...

  

  Hi Maria Grazia, So glad in your interest in my new novel House of Daughters -- a retelling of Pride and Prejudice with a Turkish twist. Here’s how it happened. Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Wuthering Heights 2018 - Interview with Paul Eryk Atlas: Becoming Heathcliff

  

  Shao'ri Morris and Paul Eryk Atlas in a scene from Wuthering HeightsThough he may apparently look quite the brooding Romantic hero, he shares very little with... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2017 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• Jane Austen for Children. Alice Chandler, Aunt Jane and the Missing Cherry Pie

  

  Jane Austen has been part of my life ever since I read Pride and Prejudice as a book-loving child. The book-loving child grew up to be an English professor,... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Fifty Shades of Pride & Prejudice

  

  Does it make sense? No? Well, it makes fun!Fifty Shades of Pride and Prejudice? Does something like that make sense? I mean, really? A mash –up of Fifty Shades... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Shannon Winslow Presents Leap of Hope from Her New Crossroads Collection

  

  Leap of Hope: Write What You LoveWho hasn’t wondered at least once how life would have changed by making an alternate choice at some crucial moment in the past? Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Shannon Winslow Presents Leap of Faith from Her New Crossroads Collection

  

  Leap of Faith: Write What You KnowWho hasn’t wondered at least once how life would have changed by making an alternate choice at some crucial moment in the past? Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2017 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• Marina Cano, Jane Austen and Performance - the 'performative Potential' Behind...

  

  Dr Marina Cano has just published a very interesting study of Austen’s work and its afterlives. One chapter is dedicated to Jane Austen Fans; that is why I hear... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Book Under the Spotlight: Keeping Kinley by Annette k. Larsen

  

  Keeping Kinley by Annette K. Larsen He's noble. She's common. It's complicated.Kinley is content with her common life until a chance meeting with an old friend—... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2017 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• Wuthering Heights 2017: the Trailer is Out! + Interview with Director Nina...

  

  Last week I posted the first installment in my Wuthering Heights 2017 series: my interview with Shao'ri Morris, the actress starring as Catherine Earnshaw in th... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2017 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• I've Seen Manchester by the Sea

  

  Lee Chandler is a brooding, irritable loner who works as a handyman for a Boston apartment block. One damp winter day he gets a call summoning him to his... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2017 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• Wuthering Heights 2017 - Becoming Catherine Earnshaw: Interview with Shao'ri...

  

  Emily Bronte wrote the greatest , most terrifying love story of all time: Wuthering Heights. It is a wild, passionate tale of the intense and demonic love... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2017 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• Book Under the Spotlight: the Splash of Lady Harriet

  

  Coming August 2017 from USA Today bestselling author Rachael AndersonThe Splash of Lady HarriettWhen wills clash and hearts collide, who will come away... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2017 BOOKS

• 10 Books Every Young Adult Should Read with Future Prospects in Mind

  

  We’re living in an era where books written for young adults are adored by readers of every generation. Reading books can make you cleverer and open-minded in... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2017 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• Arrival, Movie Review

  

  "There are days that define the story beyond your life. Like the day they arrived."(from guest blogger Amber Armstrong) Arrival is an American sci-fi movie of... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2017 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• Darcy's Hope at Downwell Abbey Blog Tour - 5 Darcy Questions for Author Ginger...

  

  llHello Ginger and welcome back! This time we'll focus on Mr Darcy. You’ve imagined him as a man living and fighting during the Great War in your Darcy’s Hope... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• New Year, New Things to Learn! Dare Yourself!

  

  (by guest blogger Vera Marie Reed) Now that a new year is upon us, it is time for a new beginning. There are plenty of ways to wipe the slate clean. One of... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2017 LIFESTYLE

• A Lie Universally Hidden Blog Tour - Author Anngela Schroeder Interviews Miss...

  

  Fitzwilliam Darcy has always lived a life of duty and honor; his engagement to his cousin Anne de Bourgh fulfills the final wish of his deceased mother. Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Spotlight on ... Finding the Rainbow by Traci Borum

  

  Life seems nothing more than a quick succession of busy nothings. ~Jane Austen This is precisely how Holly Newbury would sum up her life. Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Book Under the Spotlight: the Phantom Tree by Nicola Cornick. Read a Chapter fro...

  

  ABOUT THE BOOKThrilling time-slip historical fiction about the enigmatic Lady Mary Seymour, daughter of Henry VIII’s widow Katherine Parr.“She had not told him ... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2017 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• How to Learn Speed Reading

  

  Today the Internet provides people with tons of useful and interesting information. There is no need to go to the library or pay enormous sums of money in... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2016 CULTURE