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Sherlock Holmes Society of London  The subtitle identifies the target readership of this graphic novel. It’s set in the present day, though it begins with a flashback to the terrible event that led to Violet’s being adopted as his daughter by Sherlock Holmes. The story proper begins with Violet’s first day at school after years of home tutoring. It becomes evident that Sherlock had rather special reasons for choosing Bardle School, where break-ins have occurred, computer equipment has been stolen, some pupils and a teacher appear to be engaged in secret activities, and the headmaster has some sort of a...

Sherlock Holmes Society of London  This is Richard T. Ryan’s fifth pastiche: a lively and intriguing tale in which Holmes is recruited by his brother Mycroft to ensure the safety of some international diplomats at a secret peace conference convened in 1907. But in serving ‘King and Country’ — and doing their best to prevent the continent of Europe from slipping towards a possible war — Holmes and Watson are also drawn into a number of other seemingly unrelated cases which threaten to derail their investigations. Ryan’s Watsonian voice is superb, and as with his earlier novels the author has...

EARTHLINGS is best viewed in colour digital format on an iPad, Kindle Fire or Samsung Galaxy Tab or similar and is now available on Kindle USA, Kindle UK, Kindle Canada and all Amazon sites and soon in other digital formats. The Audio version also includes the amazing visuals as an included PDF. You can also read some of the EARTHLINGS on Phil's blog - Phil's Earthlings. Brian Williams, TV Producer/Director, Brian Williams Television, Inc. I’ve known the author of EARTHLINGS for more than 30 years. Always found him to be a good conversationalist with a slightly twisted sense of humor. Clearly, I never really got to...

David Marcum  I’ve literally collected and read thousands of Sherlock Holmes pastiches, and after a while, one begins to encounter adventures that are not related by Watson. Others who knew Holmes – Wiggins (many of them), Mrs. Watson (all of them), Mycroft, Irene Adler, and Professor Moriarty, to name a few – also have tales to tell. And there are just as many stories that are related in third-person. This is one of those, and freeing it from Watson’s narrative pen gives it a different aspect of realism and violence than one comes to expect from The Canon. I don’t...

We're delighted to confirm that from 2023 onwards our online sponsorship program is 'Share The Meal' from the World Food Programme (WFP). The project has passed 200 million meals shared. We're doing our small part - for every book you buy on the site, we will share a meal. Buy five books, we'll share five meals and so on.  Our co-founder, Steve Emecz, has been an external advisory council member for the last seven years for the WFP Innovation Accelerator in Munich. He's participated in many bootcamps and innovation nights as well as mentoring several projects.  The WFP won the Nobel Peace...