‘Storm Austen is approaching the UK’. Many of us know it has been entertainingly blowing for a century or more—all those Austen films and fanfics, a positive storm.

I taught Andy Burnham Practical Criticism at Cambridge University in the late 1980s. I hope his close reading of texts helps him read the nation well!

So excited to be speaking on Jane Austen at the Royal Hopsital, Chelsea, on Friday. What a privilege! chelseaheritagequarter.co.uk…

Thrilled that my ‘Living with Jane Austen’ has just appeared as an audiobook/Audible, read beautifully by Lucy Archer-Woodcock. Do have a listen!!

Lovely record of wonderful festival!

Thoroughly enjoyed talking about LIVING WITH JANE AUSTEN at the Llangwm festival in Pembrokeshire. Jolly difficult to get to (! )but worth it when you do: gorgeous festival , gorgeous scenery

The audio version of LIVING WITH JANE AUSTEN is arriving on 12 August. The reader is the wonderful local Cambridge actor, Lucy Archer Woodcock.

Source: Llangwmlitfest llangwmlitfest.co.uk/saturda…

The CUP stand at last week's wonderful (and hot) Global Jane Austen Conference in Southampton.

Iconic Women - Cleopatra & Jane Austen with Natasha Solomons and Professor Janet Todd Wednesday 25th June 2025
18:30 at Waterstones, London - Islington

Delighted by this endorsement of the new Cambridge Jane Austen edition (in good company too): airmail.news/books/2025/5/ed…

The new Cambridge edition of Jane Austen's writing in 8 volumes is now in the bookstore! So you can read the six novels along with the childhood fiction and the later manuscript works --all inside handsome covers!

janeaustens.house/events/tal… Thrilled to be visiting Jane Austen's house again--but a bit daunted by the idea of speaking where she wrote her novels!!

Lovely event last night in Topping in Ely. Discussed which Jane Austen novel we were introduced to in school, whether it thoroughly put us off or made us young fans. Of course we’re all fans now —or we wouldn’t have turned out on a wet night!

Talking on LIVING WITH JANE AUSTEN at Topping in Ely on Tuesday 15 April at 7 pm. I look forward to seeing what I 've heard is a fabulous bookshop!

Lovely event in gorgeously sunny Oxford yesterday-in the magnificent chapel of Exeter College. Good audience with very thoughtful questions. Also much enjoyed speaking to school students already enthusiastic about Jane Austen!

CUP is arranging an audio version of 'Living with Jane Austen'. Very pleased! Thrilled to find my interviewer at the Oxford Literary Festival on Sunday 2 pm is Suzi Feay. She interviewed me years back at Dartington on my biography of Fanny and Mary Shelley.