Hello, and welcome to Pemberley and Beyond!

Join me, your host, for our inaugural episode. The podcast where we pour ourselves a cuppa, and take a whimsical wander through some of the tropes in JAFF.

In this episode, Cat talks about the recently published, "Caroline Bingley, Private Detective" by Caroline Gardiner and Sharmini Kumar. Has Caroline Bingley shown some personal growth since being jilted by Mr Darcy? Is everyone in this wintery novel going to be white? And what on earth is Georgiana like?

Note: the bit about the Romans believing London was Hell was a factoid I picked up from Chris Fowler's "The Water Room". I have never fact-checked this, but Fowler knew more about London than I can ever hope to

Hello, and welcome to Pemberley and Beyond — the podcast where we dive into the ever-expanding world of Jane Austen fan fiction (JAFF for short).

New lives, new loves, fresh drama… and tropes that just keep turning up like Wickham at a wealthy heiress’ door.

I’m Cat — an Austen enthusiast, longtime JAFF reader, and possibly the ersatz English version of Miss Erstwhile, with just enough cash for a podcast mic… but not quite enough for a trip to Austenland.

Whether you’re new to JAFF or you’ve read enough Darcy reimaginings that the multiverse itself can barely contain them, come join me for a warm, slightly opinionated wander through the stories that carry Jane’s (and sometimes Elizabeth Gaskell’s) legacies forward.