So far I’ve read 229 books in 2013, so although my task is nigh on impossible I’m gamely attempting to reduce that list down to just ten stand-out titles, five nonfiction picks last week and five fiction this week. (Some of the...

Jane Austen meets Downton Abbey is the crude shorthand, but Longbourn by Jo Baker, a new take on the Pride and Prejudice story, is so much more than that. Like so many, I fell in love with the 1995 BBC production of Pride and P...