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...

Grande dame of British crime fiction P.D. James makes a passable stab at imitating Jane Austen’s style in Death Comes to Pemberley, an absorbing mystery novel set in the world of Pride and Prejudice – her writing is stately, wi...