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Readers of McGowan's earlier volume, Miss Dashwood's Dilemma will recognise this as the book the youngest Dashwood Sister was relying upon to make her fortune. They will meet many familiar characters, such as Mr & Mrs Bonnet, their daughters Izzy, June, Livia etc, the chivalrous Colonel Blandun, the arrogant Mr Starchy, the smooth villain Wickoughby and many others. For a light hearted homage to almost the complete works of Jane Austen, look no further.

Georgiana Darcy. Mr Darcy's sister, has a backstory as remarkable as any of Jane Austen's heroines, and a character to compare with them, too. Read all about her early life, her encounter with the devious Mr Wickham, and more, in this latest offering from the creator of 'Pride Unprejudiced."

This book retells the story of Jane Austen's most popular book from the point of view of one of her least popular characters, Mr. Collins, the comic clergyman from Pride and Prejudice. It is a light-hearted exploration of what might have happened behind the scenes of this famous novel.

Now that she is Miss Dashwood, Margaret, possessed of both sense and sensibility, must carve out her own role in life. Her sisters, Elinor and Marianne, are both happily married and supremely content with their lives, but such a conventional destiny does not appeal to the erstwhile "Terror of the Seas" and while Margaret admits that piracy is no longer a practical option, she determines to seek fame and fortune in her own way. Find out how she does so, and how far she succeeds, in this latest homage to the immortal Jane Austen from the author of "Pride Unprejudiced."

What happened to all the Greek Heroes on their way back from Troy? We all know about Odysseus and Aeneas, but what about Agamemnon, Menelaus, Nestor and so on? Ron McGowan continues his Tale of Troy to see them all home, safely or otherwise.A must for those who have read 'The Judgement of Paris' and 'The Wrath of Achilles'.

When Caroline Bingley, desperate to avoid her creditors in London, agrees to accompany her friend Fanny Adams on a visit to her father, she expects to go to Guernsey, the family's ancestral home. Instead, she ends up in the backwoods of the U.S. and Canadian borders at just the worst time, and her actions on the far side of the Atlantic have results that are still felt in the world today. Read all about it in this latest from the author of the best-selling 'Pride Unprejudiced'.

Mr Bennet develops a severe congestion of the chest, which obliges him to spend the winter by the Mediterranean. Accompanied by his daughter Jane and her husband, as well as his usual Medical team, and using the latest means of transport, they travel to Florence and then to Rome, where Mr Bennet makes a discovery which will, at last, make his name in academical circles, while Mrs Bennet enjoys the company of a young Roman count, and Margaret Morland (Margaret Dashwood as was) completes her masterpiece. Read how this idyll is interrupted and what follows in this latest from the author of ...

In this light-hearted take on the Tale of Troy, where the gods and goddess have the morals of five-year old hooligans, and the kings and queens worry about their chryselephantine tiling and their new Coptic Solariums, those with the benefit of a Classical education will recognise a mood very similar to Homer's, and those without such an advantage will find many concerns that are still familiar today.

This latest offering from the author of "Pride Unprejudiced" and "The Journal of Miss Jane Fairfax" reveals some of the details that Jane Austen never tells the reader in "Sense and Sensibility". If you have ever wondered about the Colonel's doomed romance with his childhood sweetheart, Eliza, his adventures in India, his duel with the wicked Willoughby, even his first name, here is your chance to find out more.

This volume completes the story begun in "The Judgement of Paris". Readers will meet the same juvenile delinquent gods and the same heroes obsessed with everyday problems. It all adds up to a humorous retelling of an ancient story that will strike chords with modern readers.

When Caroline Lackland meets rich Mister Hilney at a ball in Brighton, and later joins him at his home at Southover Priory, she has no romantic notions of how her visit will end.But if Caroline does not want romance, then romance wants her, and she soon finds herself in the midst of a Gothic fantasy to rival Mrs Radcliffe or Monk Lewis.Read all about it in this latest Jane Austen Amplification from the author of the acclaimed Pride Unprejudiced and many others.

When Dr Morland recommends a warm climate for Mrs Bennet's condition, and news comes from Corfu that Lydia and Wyckham will be in Venice during the summer, the Bennets set off to meet her, accompanied by the Darcys, the Morlands, Young Frank Darcy and Wilhelmina Tilney, Catherine Morland's daughter. Their adventures on the way and back again provide a fitting sequel to 'Our Neighbours' Sport Beyond the Seas.

The adventures of Mrs Morland (Margaret Dashwood, as was, from Sense and Sensibility, Miss Dashwood's Dilemma, etc) in the seaside resort of Sandytown (definitely not Sanditon). This volume follows on from Miss Dashwood's Dilemma, and covers the period from Margaret's wedding to George Morland ( brother of Catherine, of Northanger Abbey fame), to their leaving for a new practice in Hertfordshire. On the way, we witness their efforts to support Sir John Middleton's new seaside spa resort in spite of the absence of both spa water and sea water, not to mention sand. We also see the first ...

When Margaret Morland (Margaret Dashwood, as was) and her husband, Doctor Morland (Catherine's brother from Northanger Abbey) find themselves detained in Corfu by the Wickhams after the Bennetts have gone home, they look forward to nothing but a winter of running after Lydia Wickham's children until the next ship for England arrives. But Doctor Morland is very soon summoned to the wilds of Epirus to tend to a Turkish potentate, and they both find themselves involved in a revolt against the Sublime Porte, and the rescue of an old friend. Margaret will need all her wit and ingenuity to see ...

A chance meeting at a London ball between Mary Crawford, still handsome, witty and rich, and Fanny Price's brother William, now a successful captain in the Royal Navy, starts a trail that leads Mary back to Mansfield, to reunite the shattered Bertram family, while war rages over Europe.

This book revisits "Pride and Prejudice" from the point of view of Mr Bennet, and gives us the backstory of how Mr and Mrs Bennet met to produce their family of heroines.

Mr Bennet of Longbourn relates how, after the marriage of his daughters Elizabeth and Jane, he is persuaded to visit them in Derbyshire and then to go on to Newcastle to visit Lydia and Wickham. While in the North he becomes embroiled in a famous incident of the Napoleonic Wars, and eventually returns home with a revised opinion of most of his children, and a new vision for the future.

When Lady Catherine De Bourgh dies of an apoplexy brought on by the latest French Revolution, it becomes her daughter Anne's duty to maintain the Rosings estate in the face of conflicting claims arising from her Mother's will.How she does this, with the help of the Bennet and Darcy families and the hindrance of distant cousins fro France and Ireland, forms the subject of the latest in the Jane Austen Amplification series.

This volume completes the story begun in "The Judgement of Paris". Readers will meet the same juvenile delinquent gods and the same heroes obsessed with everyday problems. It all adds up to a humorous retelling of an ancient story that will strike chords with modern readers.

In this spirited but faithful sequel to The Last Chronicle of Barset we carry on from where Anthony Trollope so frustratingly left off. We meet all our old favourites again - Archdeacon Grantly, Bishop Proudie, Glencora and Planty Pall, and the Reverend Josiah Crawley among others. But most of all this is the continuing love story of Johnny Eames, the poor clerk, and Lily Dale, the squire's daughter. Johnny has already proved his love twice, in The Small House at Allington and The Last Chronicle of Barset, but so far in vain. Will this be a case of third time lucky?