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Another very strong month for short story collections with Denis Smith and Caiden Cooper Myles taking the top two slots once again. Harry DeMaio makes the top five with the third collected of Glamorous Ghost stories. 1.   The Six-Thirteen from Fairfield Junction and Other Cases of Sherlock Holmes – Denis O Smith and Kevin E Green 2.   The Further Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes – Caiden Cooper Myles and Luke Barton 3.   The Egyptian Curse – Dan Andriacco, Kieran McMullen and Michael Langan 4.   The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the Glamorous Ghost, Book 3 – Harry DeMaio and Jacqueline de Boer 5.   The Woman Returns – Richard Paolinelli and Michael...

For fans new to your work, tell us a little about your writing styleThe time, the place, the moment dictate my writing style. The minute I sit down at my computer to start a new Holmes story, I step into that world of fog, candlelight, horse-drawn conveyances, the language, sights and smells of that bygone world and become Dr. John Watson observing and writing the adventures of the world’s first consulting detective. It is as if I’m in a movie that I’m writing the story for, word by word and I don’t know what will happen until I type it....

Orlando Pearson is the author of The Redacted Sherlock Holmes series which presents works too scandalous to publish in the lifetime of the Great Detective. Volume VI of the series includes The Sorceress and the Sea-Lord which features Sir Joseph Porter from HMS Pinafore and real-life French composer Augusta Holmès who lived from 1846 to 1903. She wrote a thousand works including three operas and one-hundred-and thirty songs mostly setting her own texts. Orlando will be giving a talk in French about her and her music to the Ewell and Epsom French Club on the 17th December (link below) in...

Another very busy month with the much anticipated new release from Denis Smith topping the charts. It's the first new book from him in several years and he's widely recognised as one of the leading pastiche writers in the world. Caiden Cooper Myles clocks another top two finish for his debut collection, Volume II launching this week on Kickstarter. Another new collection, from Nick Cardillo, rounds out a very strong top three consisting of all short story collections. 1.   The Six-Thirteen from Fairfield Junction and Other Cases of Sherlock Holmes – Denis O Smith and Kevin E Green 2.   The Further Memoirs of...

The Historical Novel Society Cruel September is set in the scholastic world of Los Angeles at the time of the Vietnamese War and the teachers’ strike of 1970. It concerns the experience of Mandy Sayer, a newly qualified teacher, her relationship with Art Malamud, the union rep at the school in which she takes her first job – and the destructive power of Vivian Laws, the school’s principal. As the academic year progresses and the internal politics of the school emerge, we meet other members of the staff whose stories embellish the situation in which Mandy and Art find themselves. As...