The 26 pint-sized essays comprising A Jane Austen A-Z are stuffed full of insights. Each is a masterpiece in miniature. Learned yet playful, Michael Greaney teaches readers new things about the forms and preoccupations of Austen's fiction.

Deidre Lynch, Professor of Literature, Harvard University, USA

A unique guide to the life and career of a much-loved author. … It sheds new light on key images, ideas, objects, people and places in Jane Austen's writings. … This neatly organised book provides Austen enthusiasts and students alike with a unique insight into the much-loved writer's way with words.

Lancashire Life

Michael Greaney's Jane Austen A to Z is a perfectly judicious and highly entertaining atlas of the great novelist's life and writings. Each short chapter is an informative delight, from A for Accident to Z for Zig-Zag, in a book cleverly written both for those in want of an engaging first primer, as well as those who already know Austen down to a T.

Devoney Looser, Regents Professor of English and Global Sport Scholar, Arizona State University, USA