Reading Copy Book Blog

On Thursday, Beth posted about a new book set to be published by Quirk called Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. It would seem that Beautiful Books is also jumping on the bandwagon and just signed a deal for a rejigged Jane Austen book. This time it’s an Austen meets Agatha Christie blend.

Murder at Mansfield Park, by Lynn Shepherd will be available for your reading pleasure in April 2010.   Regarding her book, Shepherd said: “What intrigues me about Mansfield Park is how unlike Jane Austen it actually is. One of the reasons so many readers are dissatisfied with the novel Austen did write is that they find her heroine at best insipid, and at worst, downright irritating.”

Hence the change in some of the original characters; Unlike the original book, character Fanny Price is “ambitious, scheming and relentlessly focused”, while Mary Crawford “suffers great indignities from her mean neighbour”.

Also on the mash-up bandwagon is Hodder & Stoughton who announced last month that they signed a deal for Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter. Also along those lines, Pride and  Prejudice and Zombies author, Seth Grahame-Smith has said that he’s working on Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.  Watch out Buffy!

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