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There was a publisher about six or seven years ago, when I first started talking about The Sioux online, who said, ‘Oh, we were looking at republishing it,’ but that publisher doesn’t exist anymore. The fairy tale/fantasy element also added immensely to the story. It took a bit to get going but, especially as the book neared its climax, it really developed things. Very creative and imaginative! It’s also slightly depressing, because then you realise how many wonderful books are out there that you’ll never discover. You can do it digitally, and in fact, the Abandoned Bookshop is all about finding these sorts of books and issuing them digitally, partly because most of them won’t work in print. And although it’s a little bit dissatisfying to have to do them differently, at least they’re there. If we can make them available, there’s a chance people might discover them. If, in a year or two’s time, someone wants to do a print edition, brilliant, but at the moment, perhaps just by us making a bit of a noise about them, we can draw attention to these writers’ achievements.

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Absolutely, and he’s fascinating about Orson Welles, obviously, and you see his complete incredulity at the War of the Worlds drama. He says something along the lines of, ‘I didn’t expect people to go mad. Are these people stupid? What’s going on?’ It’s well worth watching an interview with him on YouTube. He’s got this wonderful voice, you could listen to him for hours. He went on to do quite a lot of acting. He was in a TV version of [Luigi Pirandello’s play] Six Characters in Search of an Author. And because we’re talking about books that you’ll often come to second-hand, the same goes for the material itself: you know you’re reading something that someone else has read. You don’t know how many hands it’s passed through. It’s that connection to times gone by; I like the idea that something that someone produced 20, 30, 50, 100 years ago still resonates with someone today. Convinced that these visions are merely a side-effect of his injuries, he attempts to ignore them, just to learn that he might not be nearly as crazy as he first believed. The enemy is in fact real and even closer than he had imagined, and they will do whatever it takes to keep him from rediscovering the centuries lost starship. That aside, though, I loved how Gläser treated these characters in the new setting. Unlike other contemporary retellings I have read, these characters do feel like a modern variant, though they are ones that are true to their original. It's unsurprising that Darcy was my favourite: while he comes across as condescending and arrogant, he's actually a really nice guy and a loving brother. I also really enjoyed Emma, even if I do believe she should have been Elizabeth. She is one of the best-developed voices of a teenager I've come across: she sways between hey I'm just a kid and I am all so grown up. She makes a lot of stupid mistakes but she is willing to admit her own faults. She can be snarky and out of line but she's a genuinely good friend. I like that she cared about the school itself, that the younger students felt welcome and that she looked out for her father. I really did enjoy reading this even though not everything worked for me. I liked Emma and her friendships with the other girls at school. I liked the magic book itself, how it worked, and the mysteries that needed to be solved. There were secret tunnels which are always awesome. I loved many of the Austen-esque vibes. The ending also worked very well for me.When a girl is destined to be a heroine, Fate will lead her to the very thing that makes that heroism possible." Emma besucht das Internat auf Schloss Stolzenburg. Beim Aufräumen der Bibliothek stößt sie zufällig auf eine alte Chronik des Schlosses. Beim Lesen merkt sie jedoch, dass es sich um eine Art Tagebuch handelt und dass Eintragungen in das Buch in Erfüllung gehen. Emma benutzt dies natürlich auch gleich, um selbst einige Wünsche in Erfüllung gehen zu lassen. Anfangen möchte sie mit dem unmöglichen Darcy de Winter, der sich aufführt, als gehöre ihm das Schloss. Emma merkt jedoch bald, dass ihre "Wünsche" aber nicht richtig ausgeführt werden und sich auch unnatürliche Sachen zutragen. So macht sie sich daran, herauszufinden, was es denn mit dem Buch auf sich hat. Und mit dem Faun, von dem im Buch ständig die Rede ist.

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What’s the prose like? The extracts I found put me in mind of something like A Confederacy of Dunces (1980). My reaction: I was on the fence for the first 5 or 6 chapters of this book, but really ended up enjoying it (and polishing it off in a day!). Initially I kept trying to figure out which character was supposed to represent which Austen character (as I knew the book was Austen-inspired) and I was seeing all the parallels. This was kind of distracting for me, especially considering that it pulled from both Emma and Pride & Prejudice, which seemed discordant, since it wasn't following one story or the other, but a mishmash. Exactly, and actually his theory – I’m not a biologist – made logical sense to me. It wasn’t necessarily correct, but it made sense. He was his own worst enemy at times – he didn’t take editing very well. He wasn’t the easiest person to work with. Gets a star for just its gorgeous looking cover. It’s so bright and colourful and detailed and amazing. Whoever designed the cover should get a medal. Beyond the beautiful cover and the hint of magic and romance was what made me read this book. Okay, it was mainly the amazing cover. Does the book live up to the cover. Uhh… not really? I mean, it’s not that bad, but I’ll explain why I didn’t like it as much as I wanted to.The supporting characters, although some of them vaguely inspired by P&P characters (but not all of them, which I was disappointed at, when Charlotte and Mr Collins didn't show up, and neither did Caroline, whose inclusion in this P&P-inspired story would have been highly entertaining) were entertaining. Darcy broods about as any Byronic hero, and watching him and Emma come to terms with their feelings was fun. It felt natural and unrushed, moving through the stages of friendship. The realisation may have been sudden, but the build up was not, and who can blame a 16 year old girl for realising very suddenly that maybe she has feelings for someone she thought she hated?

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But The Rationalist is wonderful. There was a follow-up called The Marriage of Souls(1990), and then there was a third book that never got published. It was intended as a trilogy. There’s a certain romance to the idea that here was this, at the time, very popular and well-received book, and for whatever reason, the third and final instalment never came out. There may well be people who read the first and second books and loved them. The plot was very unique. It was about a girl who found a book. And whatever you wrote in the book came true. I know, I know, that does sound very stereotypical. But, that's not even the best part. The author brings in so many more elements such as fairies, fauns, and weaves it into a very intriguing mystery. Lustig, wenn sich die Sprecherin der Hörbuchs und der angegebene Titel des Buches nicht einig sind. For Spain, the four books dramatise the lingering shadow of the Spanish civil war and the dictatorship of General Franco. Ruiz Zafón, who was 11 when Franco died, grew up in a Spain that would become a constitutional monarchy, a member of the EU, an ally of the US in Iraq – but increasingly struggled to hold on to Catalonia. In common with the best historical novelists, he wrote about his own times through older ones. The lost, lamented and redacted stories that form the spine of the quartet reflect the long historical willingness of the Spanish state, and its partner the Catholic church, to silence writers and writing. There’s that sense of a communion down the ages, too. It makes you feel like you’re doing justice to a writer who has been wronged, overlooked, historically.

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But no. Because of this reference, and the name choices, I really thought this would be a much closer retelling of Pride and Prejudice than it actually was. So if you're expecting a P&P retelling, stop right there. It's not. It has elements of it, and it's certainly influenced by it, and if you love the love story between Elizabeth and Mr Darcy (or even Jane and Bingley, which have their respective characters as well, and whose romance I also enjoyed), then you'll probably like this enemies-to-lovers romance as well - but it is, in my opinion, not a 'retelling'. It sounds creepy. There’s the element of abuse, too, with the son who’s disabled, and then this Englishman comes along and marries into the family.

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He has a wonderful voice, and an incredible life: he was born in Romania, came to England, was published by the Woolfs, went to the US, worked in the grain industry for a while but got bored and teamed up with Orson Welles – as you do…” Only problem? There’s now a new threat in the galaxy. One that has been waiting for this moment for a very long time. One with a power unlike any other ever seen previously. And they want Abbey as well. Be careful what you wish for. They say that Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. They’ve got no idea. Keep us posted on that one, please. Now, though, let’s move onto the non-fiction portion of your list. Tell me about John Houseman’s Unfinished Business: A Memoir (1986).I bought my first Haruki Murakami book in a second-hand bookshop because I liked the cover, and I went on to do some work with him – things like that can happen and you think, ‘I’d never have gone on that route if it hadn’t happened like that.’