THE BRONTË Society has hinted at events to come during the second half of Emily Brontë’s bicentennial year.

Experts will explore links between the Wuthering Heights author and Japan, whilst celebrities getting involved in the celebrations include Kate Bush and Jeanette Winterson.

Staff at the Brontë Parsonage Museum are currently putting together a packed programme to follow the successful first six months of Emily’s 200th anniversary year.

Some of the planned events have already been revealed in detail, including a high-profile weekend to celebrate Emily’s actual 200th birthday.

But the society’s latest press release also briefly mentioned other events for the last part of the year, including workshops from Keighley-based Whitestone Arts to explore the links between Emily Brontë and Japan.

Singer-songwriter Kate Bush, who leapt to fame in the 1970s with hit single Wuthering Heights, will write a piece of poetry or prose to be engraved onto a ‘Brontë stone’.

There will be one stone for each sibling, the others contributed by poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy, Scottish maker Jackie Kay and novelist Jeanette Winterson.

The stones will be placed at different points in the Haworth and Thornton area that have a significant connection to the Brontës and can be explored via either a three-mile, four-mile or 14-mile walk, linking each stone.