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DREAMING HIGHBURY is Ellen Mary Soule's sequel to Jane Austen's Emma. It was published in digital format in 2017. The story opens some short time following the marriages of Emma Woodhouse to George Knightley and of Harriet Smith to his tenant Robert Martin; both women are newly pregnant. Sir...

Leenie Brown calls OXFORD COTTAGE a variant of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, though more accurately it is a novel using characters from the novel. Changes to canonical characters and plot carry nto entirely new territory. It was published in digital format in 2014. Thomas Bennet, Henry...

BRYANT AND MAY: STRANGE TIDE is Christopher Fowler's 2016 addition to his long-running Peculiar Crimes Unit series, set immediately following The Burning Man. It is available both in print and digital formats. Ali Bensaud survives the explosion of a human-trafficking boat in the Mediterranean...

THE COURTSHIP OF EDWARD GARDINER is Nicole Clarkston's prequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2016. It opens in London in May 1800, with most of the action occurring in Derbyshire two months later. It offers believable younger versions of many of the...

EASY ERRORS is the twenty-second book in Steven F. Havill's Posadas County mystery series. The most current installment, it was published in digital format in 2017. He describes it as a pre-prequel, the first prequel being One Perfect Shot, which details Estelle Reyes-Guzman's joining the...

RUINED FOREVER is another of D. L. Carter's novels using characters from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2015. Carter changes too much to call it a variation. The plot is too long and too convoluted to summarize easily. It's more a Grade B thriller than...

ARTIFICE AND ATTRACTION is Mattie Rowden's 2017 novel based on Jane Austen's characters in Pride and Prejudice. It changes too much to be classed as a simple variation. ARTIFICE AND ATTRACTION divides into two parts. The first section covers Jane and Elizabeth Bennet's Season in London with the...

GENTLEWOMAN URGENTLY SEEKS HUSBAND is D. L. Carter's 2017 e-book variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It opens after the ball at Netherfield and the Bingley party's withdrawal to London. So much goes on in GENTLEWOMAN URGENTLY SEEKS HUSBAND that it's difficult to summarize without...

"An Heir for Pemberley" is Jane Grix's short story sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2016. "An Heir for Pemberley" opens in the fourth year of marriage for Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, as Elizabeth goes into labor with their first...

"Hope at Dawn" is Leenie Brown's short story published with the e-book novella AND THEN LOVE. I found no publication date. "Hope at Dawn" is the tale of the reunion of Nicholas Sidemore and Kathleen Witherfield, separated by her male relatives since he had been too poor to aspire to the...

THE CASE OF THE DISHONOURED PROFESSOR is one of the novellas in Roger Jaynes's anthology SHERLOCK HOLMES: A DUEL WITH THE DEVIL. Jaynes sets up the collection as three previously unpublished stories in which Dr. John H. Watson reveals the long-running duel between his friend Sherlock Holmes and...

KITTY'S LUCKY CHARM is Bianca St. James's sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, told from the point of view of Kitty Bennet. It was published in digital format in 2017. KITTY'S LUCKY CHARM opens at the double wedding of Jane Bennet to Charles Bingley and Elizabeth Bennet to Fitzwilliam...

HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT is Harriet Knowles's new variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2017. George Wickham and Mrs. Younge were not the only miscreants in his attempted elopement from Ramsgate with Georgiana Darcy. Deep in gambling debt to a criminal...

COLONEL BRANDON'S DIARY is Amanda Grange's variant of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, told by entries in Colonel James Brandon's diary. It was published in hard cover in 2008. Colonel Brandon's diary establishes the back story to Austen's brief account of his family, the tragic end of his...

BECOMING MARY is Amy Street's sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, with Mary Bennet as first-person narrator. It was published in e-book format in 2015. The Darcys have been married three years when Elizabeth invites Kitty and Mary for a summer visit. Mary does not want to go, but Mrs...

MOURN NOT YOUR DEAD Is the fourth book in Deborah Crombie's Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James series. Originally published in 1996, it was reissued in digital format in 2010. When his wife and stepdaughter find the body of Alastair Gilbert, Commander at Notting Dale Division, with his head smashed...

WITH THE COLONEL'S HELP is Leenie Brown's latest novella variant on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It was published in digital format in 2017. Colonel Richard Fitzwilliam, to aid his cousin Fitzwilliam Darcy's courtship of Elizabeth Bennet at Rosings, tells her of Darcy's great loyalty to...

THE ORIENTAL CASEBOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES: NINE ADVENTURES FROM THE LOST YEARS is Ted Riccardi's collection of short stories originally published in 2011 and reissued in digital format in 2015. Set it various parts of the Orient, they originated or took place between Holmes's presumed death at...

Sherwood Smith calls "The Poignant Sting" a homage to Jane Austen's Emma, providing glimpses of its four couples: the Eltons, the Martins, the Westons, the Churchills, and the Knightleys. It is available in digital format. Mrs. Augusta Elton resents that her claim to social precedence has...

BILBURY GRANGE is the second book in Vernon Coleman's Young Country Doctor series set in Bilbury, Kent. Originally published in 1993, it was reissued in free or inexpensive digital format in 2014. BILBURY GRANGE opens in May 1972 with newlyweds Vernon and Patsy Coleman on honeymoon in their...