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If your club is lucky enough to have a resident historian or archivist do take a moment this holiday season to thank them for their work. It's because of their passion managing a mountain of facts, figures and critically photos that club histories are possible. Take 'Bath The Enigma' the history of Bath Rugby Club. It's a massive 400 pages of painstakingly put together information spanning over 150 years of the club's history.   In Bath's case Harry Barstow is the lifelong fan putting the facts together. The history was a real labour of love and he donates all the royalties from...

Week 7 - Here are the offers valid until 9am Saturday UK time (4am EST). Only one discount code can be used per customer so please pick your offer. Please consider adding a 'mystery book' to your order too as it helps us spread the postage.     Just A Dollar - Holmes Series of the Week Sherlock Holmes and The Sword of Osman  (click) - $14.95 - Tim Symonds For old times’ sake Watson joins his old comrade-in-arms. Within days Holmes and Watson find themselves aboard HMS Dreadnought en route to Stamboul, a city of fabled opulence, high espionage and low intrigue. Their mission: at...

Our #bookstobooks campaign has continued to be extremely popular and as at the end of February we have reached 344 books towards our target of 1,000 by the end of 2021 - over a third of the way. 10% of every purchase made on this website - even discounts and bundles - goes towards the project. So your books turn into books for the kids.  We also include bulk donations as part of our Sherlock Holmes Kickstarter projects.     We especially love selling the Mystery Bundles in the UK and the Lucky Dip books worldwide as they enable us to...

An extract from Memoirs from Mrs Hudson's Kitchen;  “Her cuisine is a little limited, but she has as good an idea of breakfast as a Scotchwoman.” ― Sherlock Holmes in “The Naval Treaty” The English breakfast owes much to the Scots. They eat more substantial breakfasts than the English, Welsh or Irish. Scottish influence is evident every time one eats porridge, kippers, sausage or marmalade, which was first produced in the 1790s by Keiller of Dundee. I always provide a hearty meal for Mr. Holmes and Dr. Watson, for it may be the only sustenance they have for a protracted period...

We have over forty female Sherlock Holmes authors at MX Publishing spread across the world including UK, Ireland, USA, Australia, and Canada. This week through our sister imprint Orange Pip Books we launch 'Wiggins: Son of Sherlock' from Dorothy Palmer (Canada) which in breaks new ground as one of the first Sherlock Holmes stories to tackle disability. For International Women's Day 2021 we're giving 50% off all our books in our Sherlock Holmes Female Authors collection. Just use the code IWD2021 at the basket on a minimum of two books from the collection. The code is valid from 9pm UK time...