This work is the result of a meeting of minds from two of the most successful men in their respective fields.
When I was in my early 20s, my dream was to write mystery novels. I wanted to do what my favourite crime writer, Ross Macdonald, did - crank out a book a year. The only problem - and it was a considerable one - was that I stank.
Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.