Travellers preparing to board the Eurostar to Brussels at St Pancras in London can buy Helen MacEwan’s book The Brontës in Brussels at Hatchards bookshop in the station.
Brussels Brontë Blog
Sunday, 4 January 2026
Monday, 8 December 2025
Brontë Players triumph again!
It’s said that ‘writing-by-committee’ isn’t usually a good idea, but the main item of entertainment at the Brussels Brontë Group’s 2025 Christmas lunch demonstrated gloriously that a brilliant team can write a brilliant sketch!
Wednesday, 19 November 2025
The Road to Villette
Rob McRae from Leeds recounts his journey in the footsteps of Charlotte and Emily Brontë from Yorkshire to Brussels (aka Villette) -- starting at The North Midland Railway Station in Leeds and ending at the Cathedral of St. Gudule in the Belgian capital.
Tuesday, 28 October 2025
Book review: 'The Girl at the Window' by Rowan Coleman
When novelist Rowan Coleman talked to the Brussels Brontë Group earlier this month about her Brontë detective novels, I became intrigued by another book that she mentioned in her presentation – her 2019 novel The Girl at the Window.
Rowan brought up this particular novel as it is set in Ponden Hall, a centuries-old manor house on the Yorkshire moors near Haworth with a Brontë connection.
Monday, 27 October 2025
Book review: “Charlotte Brontë – A Medical Casebook”
Charlotte Brontë – A Medical Casebook by Dr. Michael O’Dowd is an eye-opening book about medical knowledge in the Brontë household with a big focus on the exact cause of Charlotte’s death in 1855.




