A sloppy wheel, a German podcast and Tom Gauld

Let's open with the new cartoon by Tom Gauld for the latest issue of New Scientist:

The Oman Observer (Oman) reviews the novel Home Before Darik by Riley Sager:

The final twist reveals that the true source of terror is not ghosts, but Marta Carver, a disturbed woman who has been secretly living within the house. This shift from supernatural horror to human menace, similar to renowned gothic stories like Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, makes the story more unsettling and grounded.

Country Living lists the UK's most inspiring gardens to visit this summer:

Best restoration

Parnham Park, Dorset 

(...) Just ten minutes from the Jurassic Coast, the gardens at Parnham are being thoughtfully brought back to life as part of a dramatic restoration of both house and grounds. The house was devastated by a fire several years ago, lending the estate a romantic, distinctly Jane Eyre feel as it slowly returns to glory. (Helen Daly)

Good Housekeeping has a quiz with one-sentence descriptions of "love stories or romance novels". Can you guess this one:

8. A young woman falls for the wealthy, mysterious man whose dark secrets threaten their future together. (Joanne Finney)

TVInsider recommends some films for streaming:

Don’t expect high fidelity to Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel about lovers brooding on the 19th-century English moors. Only the novel’s first half is covered here with Margot Robbie as the ill-fated Cathy and Jacob Elordi as her paramour Heathcliff. The bold costumes and sets make up for storytelling liberties. Streaming now, HBO Max  (Michael Fell)

Libero Magazine (Italy) and others comment on a recent edition of the local version of  Wheel of Fortune, La Ruota della Fortuna. They decided to use Wuthering Heights for one of their panels, but they were quite sloppy. The episode of 19 June 2026 featured a literary round called Se la sai raddoppi, themed entirely around Wuthering Heights (Cime Tempestose), and it produced two separate errors about the same book.

Error 1: "Set in the Victorian era"

Contestant Francesco failed to solve this clue, which turned out to be the answer anyway — and the answer was wrong. The novel runs from 1771 to 1802, firmly pre-Victorian. The Victorian era begins in 1837 with Queen Victoria's reign and ends in the early twentieth century. 

Error 2: "A love story on the English moors"

Francesco did solve this one and went on to win the episode. The show seems to confuse the book with its recent film adaptation throughout, getting both the historical period and the thematic substance wrong.

Finally, a German radio alert. 

Bayern 2 Salon – Buchgefühl: Emily Brontë, Sturmhöhe (Saturday 27 June 2026, 14:05–15:00 CET; also available as podcast via ARD Sounds). In this episode of Bayern 2's literary reading-and-conversation format, host Judith Heitkamp talks with prize-winning Dutch author Anjet Daanje — whose novel Das Lied von Storch und Dromedar (recently longlisted for the International Booker Prize) imagines the afterlife of Emily Brontë through literature — about why Wuthering Heights has fascinated her since childhood. Daanje argues that film adaptations almost always cover only the first half of the novel, losing something essential: Brontë's portrait of how the next generation survives after the parental one has burned itself out. She also reflects on Brontë's elusiveness as a biographical subject ("you learn more about the biographers than about Emily Brontë herself"). Readings are performed by Irina Wanka, the German voice of Sophie Marceau. In German.