Murder on the Karaoke Menu

And then one day you find ten years have got behind you. Borrowing from Pink Floyd's Time BBC reminds us that it's almost a year since the Grand Départ took the Tour de France to Haworth:

Haworth, home to steep cobbled streets and Brontë heritage, offered one of the definitive sights of the Tour de Yorkshire weekend. (Paul Ogden)

Den of Geek reviews the TV series A Good Girl's Guide to Murder:

When TV audiences first meet 17-year-old Pip Fitz-Amobi (Wednesday‘s Emma Myers), she’s carrying a copy of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Months later, like the titular heroine of that book, Pip discovers a woman kept secretly locked in an attic. (Louisa Mellor)

Now, My Lady Jane section: On the possibility of a second season:

The first season was adapted from a popular series of novels by Cynthia Hand, Brodie Ashton and Jodi Meadows, however as some viewers have pointed out, Lady Jane Grey only featured in the first of these novels, with the second book in the "Jane-iverse" concentrating on Jane Eyre.

However, when we spoke to the showrunners before the series was broadcast, they confirmed the first series didn't go all the way up to the end of the first novel. 

"We end the first season about two thirds of the way through the book," said executive producer Meredith Glynn. "So who's to say what will happen in the future?" (Sean Marland) (whattowatch)

My Lady Jane is based off the first novel in a series by Hand, Ashton, and Meadows, each book reimagining a different Jane or Mary throughout history. (These subjects include Calamity Jane; Mary Shelly; Jane Eyre; Mary, Queen of Scots; and Mary Read.) Because the story of Lady Jane Grey only takes up one book, it’s possible My Lady Jane will remain a one-season story—or the creators could turn it into an anthology series. Either way, Prime Video has yet to confirm a second season of the historical comedy. (Sofia Bianchi) (Elle)

Guitar World publishes how

The Les Paul used on Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights smashes estimates at auction

Ian Bairnson famously used the Gibson guitar to play the Wuthering Heights solo while his arm was in a plaster cast

The 1974 Gibson Les Paul Custom featured in Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights has just sold for £21,500 ($27,480) at auction. Pre-auction, the guitar was expected to fetch £10,000 ($12,781), before going under the hammer for £17,000 ($21,728).

As the story goes, Ian Bairnson used this guitar to play the solo at the end of Kate Bush's breakthrough single, while his arm was in a plaster cast.  

According to auctioneer Luke Hobbs from Gardiner Houlgate, the final price “was quite deserved.”

“The guitar itself - in original condition - is worth probably £5,000. With the modifications that it had, probably more like £3,000-4,000. That guitar has done significant work over the years.”

Construction-wise, the Wuthering Heights Les Paul sports a cherry sunburst finished maple veneer upon a mahogany pancake body and an ebony fretboard. There's a buckle rash patch on the back and the expected “dings and marks” that come with a well-loved guitar. (Janelle Borg)

Bradford's 2025 UK City of Culture is in this article in Keighley News:

Arts programmes during the year will include The Read, which will bring Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights to life. It will be read by Bradford-born Vinette Robinson, and the programme directed by Rachel Lambert. (Alistair Shand)

The Bear Cast Test How Well They Know Each Other in this video in Vanity Fair. Guess what's Ayo Edebiri "go-to karaoke song"? 

Kirkus Reviews lists coming-of-age novels for summer reading:

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Giving us what is possibly the most satisfying character arc out there, this novel introduces us to Jane as a child. We then have the privilege to watch her overcome her wretched circumstances to become a strong, outspoken young woman who marries the love of her life. Yes, there are a few hiccups along the way (ahem), but her and Mr. Rochester’s joy at the end is unparalleled. Jane’s happy ending is well deserved, and her journey toward it is what coming-of-age stories are all about. (Andrea Moran)

An alert from Asunción (Paraguay). We read in El Nacional (Paraguay):

Cine de Barrio presenta el ciclo “Adaptaciones literarias: de la letra a la pantalla” en “Miércoles Clásicos”, que inicia hoy, 3 de julio, con la obra Cumbres borrascosas (1939), que adapta 17 de los 34 capítulos de la novela homónima de Emily Brontë y está dirigida por William Wyler, protagonizada por Merle Oberon y Laurence Olivier. La primera función será a las 19:00 y la segunda a las 21:00 horas en la Sala Tuyucuá del barrio Las Mercedes. (Translation)