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Frankenstein
Alice Roberts finds evidence of Mary Shelley's husband Percy's help with Frankenstein.
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Jane Eyre
Bidisha revisits Charlotte Bronte's classic novel after first reading it as a teenager.
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The Mabinogion
Cerys Matthews tells the story of one of the literary treasures of the medieval world.
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Mrs Dalloway
How Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway re-imagined what a novel might be.
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Shakespeare's First Folio
Simon Russell Beale looks at what we can learn from Shakespeare's First Folio.
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Great Expectations
Tony Jordan brings his writer's insight to Charles Dickens's Great Expectations.