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Welcome to the free Secret Life of Bookstabletapp from The Open University. From the Reception Desk, youcanexplore the six wings of our library, each inspired bythemanuscript they house.

By tapping on your chosen book you will be able to accessvideocontent from the TV series as well as additional, unseenfootage.You will also be able to analyse original pages ofmanuscript anddiscover further background material on eachbook.

Search for the essence of Shakespeare in the First FolioLibrarywith Simon Russell Beale, and find out what this famous booktellsus about how his plays were written.

Let Dr Alice Roberts be your guide in the FrankensteinCellar,and discover why Mary Shelley might not have been the onlypersonto have had a hand in ‘creating the monster’.

Join Cerys Matthews in the Mabinogion Annex to discoverfolktales with the wildest plotlines and most incredible charactersandexplore the story of who created it.

Visit Great Expectations Corner with Tony Jordan,chiefscreenwriter with EastEnders for 15 years, to uncover whyCharlesDickens gave Pip a happy ending.

Meet Bidisha in the Jane Eyre Study, to delve into a textthatmay be darker and more disturbing than you’d first thought.

Enter the Mrs Dalloway Reading Room, and discoverVirginiaWoolf’s journey towards creating her great modernist novelin thecompany of Alexandra Harris.

So grab your magnifying glass, and let’s get started.

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