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  • Location: Geneva, London

She Made a Monster: How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein

1797 – 1851: How did Mary Shelley create Frankenstein?

  • Location: Bronte Country (Yorkshire)

Fifteen Wild Decembers

1830s, 1840s: The story of the Bronte sisters

  • Location: Helston, Cornwall

Scarlet Town

1796. A rigged election. A town at war. A murderer at large…

  • Location: Republic of the Congo, Kisangani / Storyville

First Blood

1964: A moving fictionalized account of Nothomb’s own father,

  • Location: England, Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Attic Child

1907 and decades later : Two children trapped in the same attic, almost a century apart, bound by a secret.

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The Hong Kong Widow

1953: Mei’s ‘gift’ of speaking to ghosts is one that she has endeavoured to bury

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