Austen-tatious ways to spend your new tenner!

THE new Jane Austen plastic £10 note is now in circulation — joining the Winston Churchill fiver — but how will you spend yours? Stick to the literary theme and splurge on all things Austen with our picks of the best buys for £10 or thereabouts. For those already preparing for Christmas, go for a Mr Darcy tree ornament (left, £10.50, winchester-cathedral.org.uk).

Bakers will love 3D cookie cutters in the shape of Jane Austen (£9.99, booklovergifts.com) — take a trayful of themed biccies to your next book club meeting.

Or, to take your interest further, try reading Jane Austen at Home: A Biography by Lucy Worsley (£7.99, amazon.co.uk). Then there’s the Jane Austen classic colouring book (£9.99, bookdepository.co.uk), for kids, the creative and the young at heart. There’s even an I Love Mr Darcy canvas tote bag from the Jane Austen gift shop (£ 10, janeausten.co.uk).