Our secret friend

It’s a truth universally acknowledged more than 250 years later – and we’re as obsessed with the author as ever

To mark the 250th anniversary of her birth, we look into the life of this literary genius…

A NEW WAVE OF ADAPTATIONS PROVES THAT WE CAN’T GET ENOUGH OF ON-SCREEN AUSTEN

Literary culture has never been secure from the philistines but books need better publicity

I don’t remember how I got into reading. Neither of my parents were big readers, and we didn’t have bookshelves at home – but I loved visiting the library. I could spend hours there, completely lost i

If you’re mourning your youth, pick up a novel featuring a fierce woman of a certain vintage, says author Louise Candlish