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Jane Austen’s romantic novels still captivate millions of readers. Looking for continuations of her stories? Here are the best Jane Austen spin-off books!

Whether it’s the new Persuasion adaptation or the counterfactuals of Bridgerton and, er, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, we just can’t seem to shake Jane Austen’s world of dances and drawing rooms

Lady Antonia Fraser, pictured here in 1966 Credit: Jerry Schatzberg/Getty Like so many of us, Lady Antonia Fraser – “Please, just Antonia” – has spent most of the past year at home. Today, the sitting room of the house in Holland Park where she has lived for “62 and a half” years, is bathed in sunlight, streaming in through the French windows, but there is a hint of perturbation in the air. Last night, as she was watching television, the bulb in the lamp next to the sofa exploded, s...

Music Business Worldwide January 25, 2021 It started, as so many of these stories do, on pint three, in the pub. Two decades ago, Mark Lewis and Martin Toher were growing tired of their day jobs as major record company A&Rs. Adding to the ever-present precariousness of their careers was the industry consolidation swirling around them: Lewis’s home of London Records had been recently acquired by Warner Music Group, while Toher’s employer, A&M, had been rolled up into Mercury Records. “A lo...

Loved Bridgerton? The best historical novels to escape into another world From Regency romance queen Georgette Heyer to a novel about the search for Tutankhamun’s tomb, author Harriet Evans picks her favourites Adjoa Andoh as Lady Danbury and Regé-Jean Page as Simon Basset in Bridgerton. Photograph: Liam Daniel/Netflix Adjoa Andoh as Lady Danbury and Regé-Jean Page as Simon Basset in Bridgerton. Photograph: Liam Daniel/Netflix Mon 18 Jan 2021 02.00 EST Along with the rest of “the Ton” ...