Downton Abbey writer Lord Lord Julian Fellowes has teamed up with Orion Publishing to launch a new app, Julian Fellowes's Belgravia, available to download to smartphones and tablets from Google Play and iTunes App Stores, or via www.

julianfellowesbelgravia.com. The app contains episodes of Fellowes's new story, released week by week, 'building up the story in bite-sized installments complete with twists and turns and cliffhanger endings'. He commented 'I was very intrigued by the idea from the start. To marry the traditions of the Victorian novel to modern technology, allowing the reader (or listener) an involvement with the characters and the background of the story and the world in which it takes place that would not have been possible until now, and yet to preserve within that the strongest traditions of story-telling, seems to me a marvellous goal and a real adventure'.