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Website devoted to the French author Jules Verne's links to Birkenhead.
Jules Verne is known as the 'Father of Science Fiction'


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TREASURE ISLAND FOUND!

Treasure Island Found! A British Member of Parliament has today confirmed that Robert Louis Stevenson set his classic... read more

08.08.2022 • By John Lamb

Local Council Confirms that Jules Verne’s Classic Science Fiction Novel...

Wirral Council, a local authority in the northwest of England has today confirmed that the French author Jules Verne set his classic 1874... read more

05.11.2021 • By John Lamb

Did Jules Verne Predict Internet Shopping and the Decline of the High...

In 1895 the ‘father of science fiction’ the writer Jules Verne (1828-1905) predicted that shoppers in the future would view pictures of retail... read more

17.08.2021 • By John Lamb

It’s Official! - Captain Nemo’s Nautilus was built in Birkenhead, England.

Liverpool 23/6/21 Abstract In the 1869 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the novelist Jules Verne writes that Captain... read more

23.06.2021 • By John Lamb

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