This runs concurrently with a more satirical impulse, the kind lampooned in Catherine Morland’s enthusiasms in Northanger ...

In Jane Austen's classic novel Pride and Prejudice, the beloved character Mr Darcy believes that 'extensive reading' makes ...

The creative team behind PBS Masterpiece and the BBC’s period drama Miss Austen discuss how they have adapted Gill Hornby’s novel to shed light on a real literary mystery surrounding the life of Jane ...

Austen is one of the greatest writers in the English language – but relatively little is known about her. And that's partly ...

A fascinating, witty and heart-breaking story of sisterly love, Miss Austen is coming to BBC iPlayer and BBC One ...

Children's books dating back more than 200 years have gone on display in Leeds. The Story Time exhibition at Abbey House Museum in Kirkstall features tales from the early 1800s, including The Mice ...

Welcome to Westminster Abbey. Daily prayer has been offered in this place for over a thousand years, and your participation in today's service is warmly welcomed. At choral Evensong most of the ...

These steamy reads bring the emotion and the heat. By Ali Hazelwood The book, the third in a series, has sold 2.7 million copies in its first week, and provided yet another example of the ...

Here’s how it works. Seeing as the game is now over 50 years old, it's hard to narrow down the best D&D books. There are quite literally enough to fill a small library these days, so which ones ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

An architectural masterpiece of the 13th to 16th centuries, Westminster Abbey has become a treasure house of artefacts. This is also the coronation church where some of the most significant people in ...

Two new books, “The Sirens’ Call” by Hayes and “Superbloom” by Carr, argue that our capacity for attention and connection has been devastated by the digital age “Elita” is a novel ...