'A 200-year-old secret': plaque to mark Bath's hidden role in Frankenstein
Notes & Theories
How to make a monster: what's the science behind Shelley's Frankenstein?
Copies of Mary Shelley's original Frankenstein text to be published
Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi review – elegant satire
January 2018
Top 10s
Top 10 books about the body
Tom Gauld's cultural cartoons
Tom Gauld on modern renderings of Frankenstein – cartoon
Brief letters
Confidence? We just didn’t have the class
Mary Shelley wasn’t a one-hit wonder
Frankenstein at 200 – why hasn't Mary Shelley been given the respect she deserves?
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein – in charts
In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein review – a life after deaths
Book of the week
In Search of Mary Shelley by Fiona Sampson review – the girl who wrote Frankenstein
December 2017
Nonfiction to look out for in 2018
Spies, suffragettes and Mary Shelley feature heavily in next year’s nonfiction lists – along with essays from the likes of Zadie Smith, Graham Swift and Amos Oz
Science Weekly
Frankenpod 200: celebrating Mary Shelley’s masterpiece - Science Weekly podcast
Two hundred years after the publication of Frankenstein, how relevant are the themes and concerns of Shelley’s gothic tale to today’s readers?
Books blog
Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week?
Your space to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of them
October 2017
Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World by Lyndall Gordon – review
Outsiders by Lyndall Gordon review – five women writers who changed the world
September 2017
First look review
Mary Shelley review – sturdy literary biopic fails to resurrect spirit of author
Elle Fanning plays the Frankenstein author in a dutiful drama that’s adequately entertaining but indistinguishable from other similar films within the subgenre
June 2017
The Guardian view on feminism and sci-fi: asking what if women ruled the world
Editorial: Naomi Alderman’s The Power is a bold addition to a genre that questions society’s rules
February 2017
Dr Frankenstein review – Mary Shelley's creation mothers a fine monster
Dr Victoria Frankenstein is the gender-switched, life-creating star of Lorne Campbell’s radical and illuminating gothic reboot
