Medium – Book About the Book – Set in Victorian Edinburgh, this story is the second in a series based around a group of doctors, their assistants and families who are on the forefront of medical research in Edinburgh’s New Town. Dr Will Raven is recently returned to Edinburgh after a trip abroad, where heContinue reading “2021 Book #66 – The Art of Dying”
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2021 Book #56 – Shadowplay
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – In the Lyceum Theatre, three extraordinary people begin their working lives together – Henry Irving, the key leading man and theatre impresario; Ellen Terry, the most desired actress of her generation; and Bram Stoker, the unremarkable theatre manager and eventual writer of ‘Dracula’. The story follows Bram throughContinue reading “2021 Book #56 – Shadowplay”
2021 Book #49 – A Study in Emerald
Medium – Book (Graphic Novel) About the Book – Set in a cross-over world of Sherlock Holmes and the Lovecraftian Cthulhu Mythos, we meet the detective and his staunch companion, a wounded soldier. They are called to the murder of a member of the royal family, a creature with tentacles, green blood and a ‘faceContinue reading “2021 Book #49 – A Study in Emerald”
2021 Book #30 – The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Sophie Taylor is a young, orphaned, well-to-do girl, who has recently lost her father and has been left in poverty. In desperation, she gets herself a job at the newly established Sinclair’s Department Store – which is a little bit like Harrods. She is looked down upon byContinue reading “2021 Book #30 – The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow”
2021 Book #6 – Wicked Boy
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Written by the author of ‘The Suspicions of Mr Whitcher’, Kate Summerscale tells the story of Robert Allen Coombs, who, at the age of 14, murdered his mother. The book traces the murder and its aftermath, from the actions of Robert and his brother Natty after the killingContinue reading “2021 Book #6 – Wicked Boy”
TBR Pile #23 – Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon
Medium – Book About the Book – Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are at the denouement of a case involving a purloining St Nicholas when they are approached by a beautiful young woman, Eve Allerthorpe, who believes that she is being haunted by a Christmas Demon. Her late mother, who committed suicide last Christmas, toldContinue reading “TBR Pile #23 – Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon”
TBR Pile #17 – Sherlock Holmes and the Beast of the Stapletons
Medium – Book About the Book – The events of the Hound of the Baskervilles occurred five years ago and still the terror of the climatic night haunts Dr Watson. They are called back to Baskerville Hall under the most awful of circumstances – Sir Henry Baskerville’s wife, Audrey, is killed whilst out walking oneContinue reading “TBR Pile #17 – Sherlock Holmes and the Beast of the Stapletons”
TBR Pile #16 – The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Stephen Fry reads the Complete Collection of Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. From the novel ‘The Study in Scarlet’ to the final (canonical) Holmes tale ‘His Last Bow’, the adventures of the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend and colleague Dr Watson areContinue reading “TBR Pile #16 – The Complete Sherlock Holmes”
TBR Pile #14 – Mrs Hudson’s Diaries
Medium – Book About the Book – The comedians Barry and Bob Cryer have ‘discovered’ the memoirs of Mrs Hudson, the long-suffering housekeeper of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. The diaries trace Mrs Hudson’s thoughts from the arrival of her tenants to their supposed date of her death in 1914. We meet her as sheContinue reading “TBR Pile #14 – Mrs Hudson’s Diaries”
Book #38 – The Wonders
Prompt – A book with the same title as a movie/TV show, but unrelated. There is a very arty Italian film called ‘The Wonders’ as well as the beautiful ‘Wonder’ film directed by Stephen Chbosky. Medium – Book About the Book – John Woolf charts the history of the ‘freak show’, from the performers ofContinue reading “Book #38 – The Wonders”
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