"A bit like the Wuthering Heights-meets-The Da Vinci Code of the horse racing world"

The Times talks about the Fragmented Orchestra project. As we have published, the Brontë Parsonage Museum is one of the chosen locations:

The locations have been cannily selected. Some, such as the new Kielder Observatory on remote Back Fell in Northumberland, or the garden of the Brontë Parsonage Museum on the Yorkshire moors, will probably transmit almost nothing except the wind whistling through your trousers. Others in urban locations will pick up mostly conversations, traffic noise or other human-made sounds. (Richard Morrison)

The Irish Times defines Add a Zero by Brian O'Connor with an exotic combination:

Also from horse racing came Brian O'Connor's Add A Zero, The Irish Times ' racing correspondent's account of his efforts to convert €5,000 into €50,000 over the course of an Irish betting season. We are, need it be said, biased, but Brian's book had an unputdownable quality to it, a bit like the Wuthering Heights-meets-The Da Vinci Code of the horse racing world, only without the romance or Opus Dei. We won't tell you how he fared but his voyage was compelling, and, at times, just a bit boisterous.

The MinnPost presents Eric Hanson's A Book of Ages: An Eccentric Miscellany of Great and Offbeat Moments in the Lives of the Famous and Infamous, Ages 1 to 100:

Fame and fortune are within your reach: 'A Book of Ages' charts turning points of notables in art and history.
Whew! There's still plenty of time left to amass my fortune and see the world. Why, when he was my age, J.R.R. Tolkien had just imagined his first hobbit, Joseph Heller had just published "Catch-22" and James Stewart had just starred in the box-office dud "It's a Wonderful Life."
Of course, Charlotte Bronte and George Gershwin had to go and die when they were my age, but hey. They were precocious. (Amy Goetzman)

Today's the Philippine Daily Enquirer's turn to link together Twilight and the Brontës:

FOR a movie where most of the main characters are vampires, there’s not much blood or fang-baring in “Twilight.” But, then again, “Twilight” is a romance, not a horror movie—and both the film and the book on which it was based owe more to the Brontë sisters than to Bram Stoker. (Noelani Torres)

The San Francisco Gate makes a mention of the Studio One Anthology DVD release which includes Wuthering Heights 1950. The Telegraph & Argus defends the wonders of Ilkley as an ideal tourist location:

Nowadays when almost all tourists have a car, waking up in the morning wondering whether to have a day at the seaside, relax in the tranquil and historic surroundings of Bolton Abbey, picnic by a river in the Dales or tackle the tough hike up to Top Withens in Bronte Country, must count for one of the most versatile and varied holiday bases in the country. All those places within easy reach.

Slugger O'Toole compares Reg Empely, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, with Edgar Linton (!):

I am afraid that Reg always reminds me of Edgar Linton from Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights: pretty decent and honest but completely ineffectual in the face of his opponents. Whilst voters may feel that Reg is a decent sort of chap, the overwhelming majority seem happier with Heathcliff (in this analogy in the shape of Peter Robinson, though I am not going to suggest that this makes Arlene Foster Cathy). (Turgon)

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