Two centuries after 'Pride and Prejudice' was published, the author's tales of snobbery and seduction still zing with life, says Joanna Trollope.
Links of the week February 11 2013 (07)
Our new feature links to interesting blogs or articles posted online, which will help keep you up to date with what's going on in the book world:
18 February 2013
There were six books, only. Six apparently simple novels, an unfinished seventh, and a few fragments. And their author? The spinster second daughter of a late 18th-century provincial clergyman, dead at 41. Yet on Monday there won't be a city, anywhere across the globe, that won't in some way and to some degree, be celebrating the 200th anniversary of the publication of the best known of all those six books - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
11 February 2013
Jake Kerridge profiles MC Beaton, the crime writer who's the third most borrowed adult author in Britain, in the Daily Telegraph.
At first glance, there are not many surprises in the newly released list of the most borrowed authors in UK libraries in 2011-12. The products that come off the James Patterson conveyor belt still retain their unfathomable popularity, putting him in the number one slot, while the tear-jerking romance writer Nora Roberts is number two.
But in this who's who of authors, there comes a who's that? moment for many people when they reach the third name on the list: MC Beaton.