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This month in a very special edition, we\\u2019re celebrating that most English of novelists Jane Austen.

It\\u2019s two hundred years this month since the publication of Pride and Prejudice and we\\u2019ve invited bestselling British novelist and Jane Austen aficionado PD James, along with Anglo-Pakistani writer Moni Mohsin, also a great Austen fan and from Australia Susannah Fullerton, President of the Australian Jane Austen Society, all here to share with us their passion for this much loved classic English novel.

We\\u2019ll also be hearing from other writers from around the world \\u2013 AS Byatt, Colm Toibin, Nii Parkes, Kamila Shamsie, to name a few, why the razor-sharp wit of Elizabeth Bennet and the cool hauteur of the gorgeous Mr Darcy are still drawing in more readers than ever across the globe in the twenty-first century.

Susannah Fullerton is the author of Happily Ever After: Celebrating Jane Austen\\u2019s Pride and Prejudice.

Image: Jane Austen, Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images