More Than One Banana

In her book Evidence Not Seen, Darlene Deibler Rose describes something incredible that happened when she was a prisoner at the Japanese Kempeitai prison in New Guinea during World War II. After living on almost nothing for many weeks, Darlene recounts how she began to crave bananas after witnessing a fellow prisoner receive a bunch of bananas in secret from someone outside the...

Jane Austen on the Move

Having just made a big move across the country myself, I was intrigued by the thought that Jane Austen herself—not to mention several of her characters—knew what it took to...

Kindred Spirits Are Not So Scarce

“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It’s splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green...

Summery Read: Bloomsbury Girls

One bookshop. Fifty-one rules. Three women who break them all. Natalie Jenner, the internationally bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society, has gifted us with her newest book, Bloomsbury Girls, just in time...