THE LOST Child can be found at the West Lane Baptist Centre in Haworth next month.

Acclaimed novelist Caryl Phillips will discuss his latest book The Lost Child at the centre on May 1.

The 7pm talk is the latest event in the Brontë Parsonage Museum’s current contemporary arts programme.

The Lost Child reimagines Wuthering Heights in 1960s Leeds and is described as a haunting novel about migration, social exclusion and the difficulties of family.

Caryl Phillips is the author of numerous works of fiction and non-fiction, including Dancing In The Dark and Colour Me English.

His novel Crossing The River was shortlisted for the Booker prize, and A Distant Shore was longlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.

His other awards included the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He is a professor of English at Yale University.

The contemporary arts season continues on June 5 at 3pm in the Baptist Centre, with a talk about the latest exhibition at the Brontë Parsonage Museum.

Emma Butcher is the co-curator of The Brontës, War And Waterloo, an exhibition looking at the ferocious battles and violent, military men who dominate the landscape of Charlotte and Branwell’s juvenile writings.

Emma will look more closely at the military material the Brontës read, revealing how their interest in war extended beyond the realms of the recent Napoleonic conflicts, reaching as far back as classical times.

Visit bronte.org.uk/what’s-on or call 01535 640188 to book tickets for either event, costing £6 each.