The 250th year of Jane Austen has brought with it a renewed interest in our favourite author and her work. We've seen a flurry of new adaptations, new podcasts, and many new documentary perspectives. Authors have also been thinking about Jane Austen's impact, which has led to a whole shelf of new books hitting bookshops this year. We decided to compile a list of some of our favourites.
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen: 250th Anniversary Edition
by Penguin Clothbound Classics
Fans and collectors of Penguin Clothbound Classics can now add this glorious volume to their collections. If you are in the market for a full bind-up of Jane Austen's work, this 250th anniversary edition is beautiful yet compact, with gorgeous endpapers designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith. This edition is exclusive to Foyles and Waterstones, so if you want to get your hands on it, that's the only place to go!
Buy it at Foyles or Waterstones only
Jane Austen: The Complete Novels (Limited Edition
by The Folio Society
Sadly, this one is completely sold out, but boy, is it pretty to look at. This year, the Folio Society did a limited run of the full works of Jane Austen, introduced by Lucy Worsley. Only 750 sets of these editions were sold, and would have cost you a pretty penny at over nine hundred Great British Pounds. Oof! If you were sad to miss out, you'll have to keep an eye out in the secondhand market.
Jane Austen at Home (250th Birthday Edition)
by Lucy Worsley
Beloved historian Lucy Worsley opens up the world of Jane Austen in this book, which is now available in a special 250th birthday edition. Worsley gets up close and personal with Austen, blowing the dust off her musty-dusty classic image and conjuring Jane Austen as a full human being and crucial figure in the history of literature.
Purchase this from the Jane Austen gift shop
Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen
by Kate Evans
If you are looking to introduce a friend or younger person to Jane Austen, this could be a great place to start. Evans uses Jane Austen's handmade patchwork quilt as the framework for this graphic biography, which weaves together Jane Austen's life with her novels and Regency history.
You Are Elizabeth Bennet: Create Your Own Jane Austen Adventure
by Emma Campbell Webster
This is a fun gift for the Janeite in your life! In
You Are Elizabeth Bennet, you must choose between plot points and features of all of Jane Austen's novels to find out which of Jane Austen's heroines you embody in yourself. Emma Campbell Webster
wrote for the Jane Austen blog earlier this year about her inspiration for this book.
Buy it from Faber and Faber
Jane Austen's Bookshelf: The Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend
by Rebecca Romney
I keep hearing about this book! Rare books dealer Rebecca Romney's world shifted when she found herself in possession of an edition of Frances Burney's Evelina, a novel beloved by Jane Austen. From there, she was inspired to explore the book collection of Jane Austen, drawing connections between the work of other novelists and our favourite writer. What she found was a litany of female writers, many of whom can no longer be found on our shelves today. In this book, Romney unearths the world of female writers who shaped Jane Austen's writing.
Buy it from Bookshop.org
Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive and Untamed Jane
by Devoney Looser
Devoney Looser isn't convinced that Jane Austen was your classic bookish spinster. No, in Wild for Austen, Looser digs into the more subversive elements of Jane Austen's novels and juvenilia to draw out the more radical features of Jane Austen's work, bringing humour and wit to her findings!
Buy it from Manchester University Press
She played and sang: Jane Austen and music
by Gillian Dooley
Thank you to the publisher for an advanced reader of this book.
The ability to play the pianoforte and sing was quite vital to a young lady's accomplishments in Regency England. It's something we see again and again in Jane Austen's work, but until recently, we didn't know much about Jane Austen's own musical abilities. Gillian Dooley uses recent research into the digitisation of the Austen family musical collection to bring the musical world of the Austen household and beyond to life, with some surprising twists and turns when it comes to the musical world of Jane Austen herself.
Buy it from Manchester University Press
Did we include your favourite from this year or are we missing something vital? Let us know your favourite title in the comments.
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