Harriet: A Jane Austen Variation (Warleigh Hall Press Jane Austen Series)

Alice McVeigh

United Kingdom9 Books

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Action & Adventure Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Science Fiction

BIOGRAPHY
Brilliantly-reviewed contemporary novelist with Orion. (Both standalones recently reissued as a duo).

McVeigh's LAST STAR STANDING. Kirkus-starred. Runner-up in action/adventure in the Independent Press Awards. Finalist in visionary fiction in the International Book Awards. Currently finalist in CIBA's Cygnus Award. (Used pen name Spaulding Taylor.)

McVeigh's SUSAN: A JANE AUSTEN PREQUEL (top-rated, 10/10 historical novelist in Publishers Weekly's BookLife Award (quarterfinalist) Also a Gold Medal winner in the Global Book Awards, the Pencraft Book Awards and the eLit Book Awards. Finalist in the Indie Excellence Book (historical fiction), the Wishing Shelf Award, and CIBA's Goethe Award (pre-1750 historical fiction).

McVeigh's HARRIET: A JANE AUSTEN VARIATION. Finalist for Foreword Indie's 2022 Book of the Year, finalist in the International Book Awards, Gold in the Global Book Awards, and was on March 28th starred review on Publishers Weekly. (Editor's Pick "outstanding"). Details on https://www.alicemcveigh.com.

McVeigh's DARCY: A PRIDE AND PREJUDICE VARIATION. Awards
Shortlisted in the last seven for the UK Selfies Book Award (adult fiction); Starred Editor’s Pick in Publishers Weekly (rated 9/10 for the BookLife Prize)
Winner: Gold medal in the NIEA National Indie Excellence Awards, June 2024; Winner: Pencraft Book Awards 2023 (Also Gold medal in Pencraft’s Best Fall Reads, 2023); First Place in Entrada’s Incipere Book Awards, 2023, Historical fiction; Joint runner-up in General Fiction, American Writing Awards; Longlisted (final ten, including non-fiction) for Shelf Magazine’s “Book of the Year, 2023”; Finalist in SPR Book Awards 2023

McVeigh's PRIDE AND PERJURY: Awards
Shortlisted for the famous UK Selfies Awards at the London Book Fair.
Finalist for Foreword Indies’ famous “Book of the Year” 2024.
Finalist for the American Writing Awards’ Hawthorne Prize (all-genre)
The only silver medallist in 2024 SPR annual Book Awards
First Place in the 2025 PenCraft Book Awards (Short Story Anthologies)
Finalist in 2025 IAN Book of the Year Award Winners
First, historical (clean) Entrada Incipere Book Awards 2025
Gold medal, Global Book Awards 2024 (historical fiction)

McVeigh's MARIANNE: A SENSE AND SENSIBILITY SEQUEL:

Awards
Gold medal/category winner (romance) in the Literary Global Book Awards

Austen winner – Historical Fiction Company Book of the Year 2025

Winner: Romance category for American Writing Awards 2025

Best in Genre, Booksshelf Annual Book Awards 2025

Awarded a B.R.A.G. (Book Readers Appreciation Group) medallion

Gold medal in the Coffee Pot Book Awards, finalist for “Book of the Year 2025”

Gold medal, PenCraft 2026, Best Book in Historical Romance

Finalist, Indies Today Best Book of the Year 2026 (historical fiction)



Reviews of McVeigh’s contemporary novels:

The Sunday Times:

'Characters rise and fall to McVeigh’s superbly controlled conductor's baton. The orchestra becomes a universe in microcosm; all human life is here . . . McVeigh succeeds in harmonising a supremely comic tone with much darker notes.'

The Sunday Telegraph:

'McVeigh is a professional cellist and is thus able to describe with wry authority the extraordinary life of a London orchestra. This is a very enjoyable novel, and not quite as light as it pretends to be.'